It started with a provocation. The oh so popular term "provocation" that all early childhood teachers worth their salt are throwing around these days. Can't you hear us? We are galavanting about the playground, twisting up our pearls with one finger, martini surrounded by the others a la Thurston and Lovey Howell all the while going on about our bloody provocations?
I promise, I harbor no ill will toward this word, moreover the pedagogy surrounding it. It is just that the word itself, like "unpacking" has become so prevalent in Early Childhood vernacular that I've got the same nausea that I felt for Michael Jackson's "Beat It" when it was in it's 45th week on the top 40, you know?
For those of you who teach adults or children whose eyes are above your navel; a provocation quite simply is an object or situation that provokes.
Our Provocation
At end of last week, my teaching partner and I put some vacuum tubes, dryer hoses and large PVC pipes out on the playground. We then sat down to ponder what we thought our children might do upon encountering said provocation and then armed ourselves with cameras.
These next three posts (i.e., PE_1_iMovie through PE_3_iMovie) will be my documentation of the dialogue with materials that our children were having and the resultant "Professional Learning Community" ...drumroll...provocation that our teaching team proposed to our boss.
These posts will also be about how I stayed up all night once again to complete an assignment for school whilst being driven absolutely mad by iMovie.
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