Overview - Tirohanga whānui
Quote
You may make mistakes at first - kia kaha! Allow those mistakes to be your friend and teach you.
- Puketapu-Hetet, 1999, page 59
Overview
Tirohanga whanui
Review is the deliberate process of preparing, gathering, making sense of information, and deciding in order to bring about improvement. It offers opportunities for early childhood education services to evaluate the impact of practice on children's learning.
Ngā Arohaehae Whai Hua / Self-review Guidelines for Early Childhood Education supports teachers, kaiako, management, families, and whānau to learn about review and to improve the effectiveness of self-review processes.
The main body of this document is divided into three sections.
- The first section explores the concept of review.
- The second section outlines the review process.
- The third section invites us to reflect on our self-review process by considering the elements of effective review.
Each section concludes with a series of questions to provoke our thinking.
The appendices include examples of self-review in practice. Review stories have been provided by a range of early childhood education services. Their stories show different ways of going about review - each reflecting the focus for review that their service had at the time.
Templates of review plans and frameworks that can be used as guides for review are also included in the appendices. A glossary and references follow at the back.
The use of "we" in this document signifies an inclusive approach to self-review, as all members of the early childhood education learning community have opportunities to participate.
The whakatauākī in this document provide a way of considering review concepts from a kaupapa Māori perspective. Whakatauākī are sayings that have many meanings rather than direct translations. They should be read in this light.