The Learning Stories Assessment approach is a form of observation and documentation that is written in a narrative story format. The teacher watches and listens as children explore through play. She may take a photo or two, jot down some notes, and create a story about what she has seen to share with children and their families. The background to this short story is the tropical island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. This is a story of quick lust and long revenge - with an ironical twist at the end. The Metro Advanced 7000 words (British English) This short story is set in Paris. This is a story of love and murder, and a little voodoo.
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Assessment & two-way family communication together
Heart-led documentation using Learning Stories
Streamline your day
Learning Stories in Educa meet multiple needs – authentic assessments, two-way family communications, print/read to children and save as keepsakes.
Work together
Regular and meaningful sharing of learning in real time builds collaborative relationships. Peer and family feedback helps individualize your teaching.
Make Learning Visible
Educational outcomes improve when teachers and families work together.
Our learning story software helps teachers document and share each child's unique journey, creating visibility that enables the families and teachers around a child to see the same learning, to share ideas, to collaborate.
Educa is a full-cycle educational solution.
We support learning stories, planning, supporting documentation, assessments and teacher professional development.
Beautiful Stories Capture Learning
Educa has a smart editor that enables visually-compelling stories in no time. A flexible Learning Story template guides you through the process. Stories save to a child portfolio that families will value.
Support Teachers
Teachers have a private workspace on Educa for documents, reflection or inquiry, professional plans and appraisal goals. There is also a story review mentoring feature. More here
Visibility Gives Families Confidence
Share individual and group stories that demonstrate your approach and celebrate each child's success. And communicate professionally. Everytime you share you are giving families confidence that their child is receiving a great education.
Reduce Time Spent on Compliance
Learning Stories In Practice
Share with families as you go, save to a child's portfolio at the same time. This is the evidence you will use for compliance. In the US, use our Ratings feature to meet DRDP requirements as a last step.
Collect Information in One Place
Collect child information using our customizable form templates, with parent contributions at your option. Each child profile has plans, family information, assessment ratings, stories and image galleries.
Reports, Reports, Reports
Reports on learning for each child, on parent engagement, on teacher activity and more help you understand your service and save time in compliance.
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Portfolios - Print, Save
Share with families and save to a portfolio in one click. Download or print as needed.
Forms & Assessments
Use our Ratings module for DRDP-based assessment and our form builder to put any documentation online. Start fresh or use one of Educa's many templates.
Any Framework
Upload any framework or goal set or create your own. Then link to anything you write in Educa.
Document Portal
Share policies and resources with teachers only or with parents also.
Planning
Create lesson plans, individual and group plans. Work individually or collaborate. Share with parents, link to stories.
Foreign Language Versions
Users can choose Educa in English (default), Maori, Mandarin, Spanish or Arabic.
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'Educa gives us a place to build and grow the picture of a child. This story can be shared with parents and future teachers, which they can contribute to and work in partnership with the centre to build these skills at home. A true partnership, where else can you get this?!'
'It also allows us to set organisational goals for teachers and centres so that they can go on an educational journey, and be reflective and evaluative of what they do. It is a tool that can create time, and a tool that allows us to lift the quality of what we are doing irrespective of the regulations we have to follow.'
Jackie Lints, Co-Owner, Educare Group
Learning Stories Examples
Once upon a time, in a land far, far, away, teachers told tantalizing, creative stories that piqued the interest of the novice mind into applying and learning challenging concepts in various domains. These stories ignited a light that formed lasting memories so that they could be applied to solve everyday problems, ensure survival, and pass on this wisdom to other generations.
Stories are not just for literary narratives but can be used to illustrate even the most complex and abstract concepts (e.g., math and science). According to Bruner (1986), '[Narrative] deals in human or human-like intention and action and the vicissitudes and consequences that mark their course. It strives to put its timeless miracles into the particulars of experience and to locate the experience in time and place.' Stories engage our thinking, emotions, and imagination all at once. As listeners we participate in the story with both mind and body as we enter the narrative world and react to it. Storytelling is a human art form that teaches about the human experience. As such, subjects even like math and science, are not outside the world of human experience or the art of storytelling. They are woven into the fabric of our lives in ways of which we may not be aware. Stories help teachers reach novices in ways they cannot with other dry, rote, deductive strategies. They bring disparate information to life in a meaningful and connected way.
