The EYDP project (Project Number: 2022-1-PT01-KA220-SCH-000086979) has been co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA).

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15-03-2025

The Case Studies section is available!

The Case studies section is available Check it out now!


22-02-2025

Creating Children's Portfolio’s Digital System

Digital portfolios transform learning documentation through collaboration, self-reflection, and parental involvement. Technology simplifies creation, offering efficiency and accessibility. Challenges include technical issues and privacy. Designing engaging, interactive portfolios with family participation and robust data security is crucial for effective digital documentation in early childhood education. A video is available on the training course.


07-01-2025

Roles and Tasks of Kindergarten Educators

Educators are crucial, documenting children's kindergarten learning through keen observation, effective communication, self-reflection, and skillful pedagogical documentation. The primary goal is to make children's learning visible, understand their progress, address challenges, and share active learning with families and communities. A video is available on the training course.


26-12-2024

Portfolio definition and Assessment approach

Portfolios comprehensively document children's learning with diverse artifacts, showcasing progress, achievements, and growth areas beyond traditional assignments. They capture cognitive, social, and emotional development, offering educators, children, and parents invaluable insights into the learning process. A video is available on the training course.


11-11-2024

Documenting Child’s Daily Actions

Documentation is the process and products (photos, notes, art) of recording learning. Various methods exist, including narratives, sampling, and sociograms. Educators can use quick notes for later analysis, observing unobtrusively. Consider watching the suggested observation technique videos. A video is available on the training course.


24-10-2024

Fourth Partners' Meeting

During the fourth partner meeting in Dublin (IE) in October 2024, the partners analyzed the final training course content for kindergarten educators, defined the digital platform structure for creating children's digiportfolios, and assessed the current dissemination and exploitation activities.


14-09-2024

Creating the habit of documenting children's learning.

Documentation in early childhood education is a transformative process, empowering educators, children, and families to co-create meaningful learning experiences. It involves observation, reflection, and dialogue, capturing moments of exploration and growth. Educators intentionally observe, interpret, and share these moments, constructing narratives that honor each child's perspective. Overcoming challenges, educators cultivate a culture of curiosity, reflection, and collaboration, making learning visible and fostering a sense of agency in children. A video is available on the training course.


26-08-2024

Setting Observation Goals and Objectives

Documentation, the process of recording artifacts like photos and notes, uses methods like narrative approaches and time sampling. Tools such as notebooks and phones enable unobtrusive observation in kindergarten, a routine practice for educators with varied intentions. Observation helps create stimulating environments through a sequence of steps, including defining objectives and action planning. A video is available on the training course.


23-07-2024

Observational Techniques: Methods for Unobtrusive Data Collection

The act of documenting yields various products, including photographs, notes, videos, and children's drawings and paintings (Elfström Pettersson, 2015). Documentation can be approached in many ways, such as through narrative methods, time and event sampling, sociograms, and mapping (Arnold, 2015; Fawcett & Watson, 2016; Pacey, 2016; Peterson & Elam, 2020). Tools like pocket notebooks, sticky notes, or phone notes enable educators to collect information spontaneously and contemporaneously for later development and analysis. These techniques facilitate unobtrusive observation. We suggest watching these two videos on observation techniques. A video is available on the training course.


28-06-2024

Writing Pedagogical Documentation

Educators and children can analyse data together. This can become an iterative process, which can feed back into determining methods of collection. When analysing the data that has been gathered, it may help to include the children’s own terms, such as their specific names for spaces. This will preserve and respect the children’s contributions, and enable the children to discuss and compare emergent issues with their peers on their own terms. Analysis can be undertaken on an individual basis with children or collectively, providing multiple opportunities for reflection on the part of both the educator and the children, and enabling those less confident in a big group to express their view. Recognising the cycle of reflection and change through ongoing discussion with the children will support the educator in creating a dynamic curriculum. A video is available on the training course.


20-05-2024

Understanding the Educator's Role as a Documenter

Educators are central to a child's early life beyond family, acting as key documenters of their learning and experiences in kindergarten. This involves keen observation, communication, self-reflection, and skilful management of pedagogical documentation to make children's learning visible, track progress, address issues, and share learning processes with families and communities. A video is available on the training course.


29-04-2024

Characteristics of Pedagogical Documentation

Pedagogical documentation serves various purposes for educators, children, and families, fostering deeper understanding, communication, and shared practices. It promotes reflection among professionals and strengthens partnerships between educators and parents to enhance comprehension of child development. This documentation is intended as an active tool for analysis, not just a passive record. A video is available on the training course.


18-03-2024

Project's YouTube Channel

The Project's channel is available on YouTube!. Check it out here!


 


14-02-2024

Multilanguage version of the Handbook

The draft version of the handbook in the partners languages is available.The handbook delves into the core concepts, characteristics, and methods of pedagogical documentation. Additionally, it explores its intricate relationship with children's learning, emergent curriculum, and various participatory pedagogies. 


10-01-2024

Draft Version of the Handbook

The draft version of the handbook is available.This comprehensive guide has been curated to provide educators, practitioners, and stakeholders in the field of childhood education with a thorough understanding of pedagogical documentation and its pivotal role in enhancing children's learning experiences.


07-12-2023

Press and Media section

The Press and Media section is available on the project portal. Check it here to see all the media where the project was published.


 


18-11-2023

Creating Digital Portfolios

The Training package is available on the project portal. Check the newly published module entitled "Creating Digital Portfolios"


 


02-10-2023

Practical Aspects of Documentation

The Training package is available on the project portal. Check the newly published module entitled "Practical Aspects of Documentation"


05-09-2023

Third Partners' Meeting

Project partners organized the third meeting in Braganca (PT) on 4 - 5 September 2023.
During the third partners' meeting, the partners:

  • Analyzed the draft contents of the handbook for kindergarten educators
  • Defined the structure of the online training package
  • Prepared the structure and the contents for the progress report


24-08-2023

The Observation of Children's Action: Instruments and Processes

The Training package is available on the project portal. Check the newly published module entitled "The Observation of Children's Action: Instruments and Processes"


10-07-2023

Training Activity in Iasi (RO)

The Pedagogical Documentation on Children´s Learning: Creating Digital Portfolios Course developed by the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (IPB) team, was held in Romania, at the partner institution EuroED, and received kindergarten teachers from four countries, Italy, Portugal, Ireland and Romania


01-06-2023

Documenting Children’s Daily Actions

The Training package is available on the project portal. Check the newly published module entitled "Documenting Children’s DailyActions"


12-05-2023

Actors in the Pedagogical Documentation Process

The Training package is available on the project portal. Check the newly published module entitled "Actors in the Pedagogical Documentation Process"


09-04-2023

Involvement of Associated Partners

Different Institutions and organisations are being contacted to join the project in order to contribute to the improvement of the project's impact on their target groups and to ensure the project's sustainability by continuing to use the project deliverables in the next years.
The associate partners of the EYDP project are organizations interested in more effective and transparent communication patterns among childhood education and care systems and families.
Find out more information on the involved associated partners.


28-03-2023

Second Partners' Meeting

Project partners organized the second meeting in Florence (IT) on 6 - 7 March 2023.
During the second meeting, the European project partners presented the findings of the WP2 National Reports and discussed about the table of contents of the Handbook.
Moreover, the main financial and administrative issues and activities to be carried out were presented and discussed, as well as the templates to be used.


02-02-2023

Introduction The Concept of Pedagogical Documentation in Childhood Education

The Training package is available on the project portal. Check the newly published module entitled "Introduction The Concept of Pedagogical Documentation in Childhood Education"


09-01-2023

EYDP project website

The EYDP project website is available on the Internet. The project website is the main tool to guarantee the dissemination of the project information and the sustainability of the project result.
The project website is also an important support to the project management and facilitate partners' cooperation.


12-12-2022

EYDP Kick-Off Meeting

The EYDP Kick-Off Meeting took place online on 22 December.
Margarida Morgado from AEMT (PT) welcomed all the project partners to the Zoom platform where the meeting occurred.
The European project partners introduced themselves and their project’s related experiences and expertise. The main activities to be carried out were presented and discussed, as well as the templates to be used.
Cristina Mesquita (IPB) presented the draft version of the table of contents of teh handbook to be developed as the first project result.


01-12-2022

The EYDP Project

The Early Years Digital Portfolio project is funded, by the European Commission through the Portuguese National Agency for the Erasmus+ Programme

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