Overview
What you'll learn
Holding children’s best interests as the paramount consideration means recognising children as active participants in the decisions and experiences that shape their day. This session explores how educators can strengthen children’s participation through authentic interactions and everyday practices that make children’s perspectives both visible and influential.
Participants will reflect on what it means to see practice through the child’s lens and consider how personal philosophy, routines and interactions can either limit or support children’s participation in meaningful ways.
The session will support you to:
- Recognise how children’s participation can be supported in everyday decisions, routines and experiences
- Reflect on the language, assumptions and practices that shape how children’s perspectives are invited, heard and acted on
- Strengthen approaches that keep children at the heart of day-to-day practice and advocate for children’s perspectives in decision-making