29 March 2020

Documentation
Much more than a collection of photos or work
Documentation should be meaningful and intentional. With
Seesaw sometimes it is easy to snap a picture of something
important happening in the school day and post to keep parents
informed.

Whilst this is a good form of communication with the parents, it

does not equal good documentation. True pedagogical
documentation notices and describes a specific learning event and
communicates this learning to the reader/viewer clearly. Good
documentation records the journey that the child took to reach
their new understanding or discovery. It suggests next steps for
learning and allows the child to be involved in their own progress
and development.

For parents, documentation provides a window into their child’s

minds. It demonstrates the process of learning rather than simply
documenting the product of learning or events in the school
calendar.

For documentation to be effective, it needs to record key learning

in correspondence with the Kindergarten Curriculum document.
This requires the teacher to have a good knowledge of the
expectations and requires them to document evidence of learning
for each child in such a way that all frames of the document are
represented.
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