12 Reflecting on Impacts

Educator with Children with Nature

Everyone started this learning journey in a different place, bringing different experiences, views, and understandings to their learning.

As this course comes to an end, I encourage each of you to look back on your learning and reflect on where you were at the beginning and where you are now. Much information has been shared and you may need some time to look back and pull out the pieces that have been most impactful for you, making connections by making your own collection.

As you move out of this learning space and bring your collection out into the world with you, remember to always come back to how important small moments of connection are for children and the impact they have. You are part of this.

Key Takeaways

This resource is meant to be used as a tool to reflect on what your key takeaways from this course have been. Use this resource to create or inspire a learning artifact that will act as a visual reminder of your nature pedagogy and key learning from the course. You may choose to put this artifact somewhere prominent in your learning or practice space.

Write your answers into the activity below. The last screen lets you export your work to a word file.

Additional Resources

• Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory (website)

To further deepen your engagement with the ideas in this book and get inspired — explore the writings and wonderings shared by The Early Childhood Pedagogies Collaboratory.  It is a Canadian hybrid and experimental space where educators and pedagogues trace and experiment with the contours, conditions, and complexities of early childhood education pedagogies in the 21st century.

Experience and Reflect:  Continuing the Conversation

Select a course resource that you found meaning in to share with someone. You may select to share this with a close friend or family member, your, a child’s family or caregiver, or your community more broadly.

Consider the intention of your sharing and how it relates to your own learning and identity as an educator today.