FOCUS on Documentation in Swedish preschool

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FOCUS on Documentationin Swedish pre-school

• Roberta di Dionisio Municipality of Collecchio
  (Province of Parma)

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Pre-school in Moldnal (Bosagårdens)

• At the entrance of the classroom there are some
  banners reporting activities and programmes
  through pictures and brief descriptions.
• The sun is the logo that the Bosagårdens
  pree-school has selected to represent its
  specific educational project.
• Sun rays represents schools aims. At the bottom
  there is an abstract from the Curricula.

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• By using the sun logo, teachers illustrate also
  some of the rules for a good social bahaviour,
  which are suggested by the children who commit
  themselves to follow them. Such rules are
  written on the sun rays.

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• Once a week teachers write a report for parents,
  in order to provide then information and to make
  them more involved in the schools routine.
• Day by day they indicate scheduled activities,
  main goals, particular initiatives/engagements
  (i.e. meetings with parents), as well as
  timetables and teachers work shifts.

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• The individual activities of the children as well
  are posted on appropriate boards (one per child)
  together with some of their comments.
• Boards are clearly visibile to parents.

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• Children have an appropriate shelf on which they
  can exhibit temporarily their pieces of work.
• Teachers put in writing the childrens comments
  and explanations.

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• Monthly teachers write reports with pictures and
  comments about the main activities that have been
  carried out.
• In this way at the end of the year it is possible
  to get an idea of the whole didactic path that
  has been followed.

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• For each child teachers write also a Portfolio
  which reports her/his individual development.
• The Portfolio is placed on a shelf in the
  classroom, so that children can flip through it
  whenever they want and decide to add a particular
  activity.
• The Portfolio represents also the documentation
  of passage from a school class to the upper one,
  and it is enriched of information during the
  whole learning path of the child.

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Norrkoping (Svanen)

• At the entrance of each classroom there is a big
  board on which the main activities and the goals
  achieved month by month are reported. Teachers
  have choosen the circular shape in order to make
  easier the overall reading of the whole didactic
  path.

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• Also special activities are reported through
  pictures and childrens works.

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• The individual development of each child is
  reported monthly in the Portfolio.