Training on the job: How do home-based co-ordinators support educators to notice, recognise and respond?

Abstract

The research project aimed to identify and document the ways in which home-based childcare co-ordinators support educators caring for children in their own homes to notice, recognise, and respond to children’s learning. The research objectives were to: • investigate co-ordinators’ practice • document educators’ understanding of children’s learning • discover how one impacts upon the other. There were three research questions: 1. What are co-ordinators doing to support educators to notice, recognise, and respond to children’s learning? 2. What changes are evident in educators’ practice as a result of what co-ordinators do? 3. What factors seem to be important in this process?