S. Antič, M. Garvas, D. Gobec, M. Kolar, N. Komljanc and the Trnovo kindergarten teachers PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION DIDACTICAL MAP TRNOVO KINDERGARTEN PEDAGOGICAL INNOVATION DIDACTICAL MAP Authors S. Antič, M. Garvas, D. Gobec, M. Kolar, N. Komljanc and the Trnovo kindergarten teachers Text Ljubljana, 2014 Ljubljana, 2019 INDEX Foreword ..................................................................... 3 Consultant's opinion ................................................... 5 Introduction ................................................................ 8 Pedagogic innovation in kindergarten ...................... 10 Pedagogical innovation I: .......................................... 13 PROJECT WORK WITH A PUPPET (PWP) .................. 13 Pedagogical innovation II : ........................................ 20 DIDACTICAL MAP ........................................................ 20 The use of updating - didactical map ................ 22 Pedagogical innovation III: ........................................ 28 SCHOOL CURRICULUM ............................................... 28 Case study ................................................................. 35 Conclusion ................................................................. 39 Glossary of terms ...................................................... 41 Bibliography .............................................................. 45 Foreword This manual is intended for kindergarten and primary school teachers who are interested in project work with a puppet as ell as in discover , research, innovation o education ractice, ormative assessment, multila er curriculum, etc. roject ork ith a u et is an e eriential, situation and action oriented re e ive learning strateg or children and teachers. n our kindergarten, the roject ork with a puppet is a curriculum that is process oriented, gradually planned and implemented and an evaluated school curriculum that is created in coo eration bet een e ert orkers, other kindergarten sta , children and arents. To be able to assess and evaluate the , e have develo ed an innovative edagogical tool named didactical ma . t is a tool that enables tid , clear and e ective lanning, im lementation, assessment and evaluation o educational rocess and hich re resents an innovation o the orth level invention. The inner structure o the didactical ma illustrates its a licabilit . t is a ma ith several stages, activities and occu ations sho ing ho the activities are integrated into a articular roject, during annual lanning. t also demonstrates how they are mutually related to various occu ations and to its se uence. t sho s the cohesive thread o lanning and hub and the articularities in didactical and content lanning as ell as the manner in hich the activities are organised in accordance ith e uilibration and harmonisation o school curriculum. 3 The didactical ma is both a tool or easibilit and achiev- abilit evaluation o a roject as ell as encouragement and a starting oint or lanning uture kindergarten rojects Gobec, 200 . The inventive element o the innovation roject is the outcome o develo ment ork er ormed b our team o e erts at Trnovo kindergarten over the ears. e have invested our kno ledge and skills into the creation o an individual ath to ard im lementation o school curricu- lum. eing a are o the im ortance and ealth o ersonal and ro essional kno ledge and skills, our otentials ere directed to ard creative coo eration in order to achieve edagogical innovation. e have made rogress ro ession- all b develo ing di erent orms o teaching at the ork- lace internal develo ment seminars, coo erative learning, learning rom each other, eer observation, re ections, interventions, inde endent learning, e ert e cursions er ormed b co orkers, etc. S ecial em hasis as laced on the team ork a roach diversit and content variet o teams including the active and autonomous artici ation o individuals in regard to their interests, kno ledge and abilities. All this enables a s stematic, rocess oriented and highl ersonal educa- tional rocess and b doing that e are ro essionall moti- vated. The content o our school curriculum has several la ers, hich means that e take into consideration several elements such as the needs o children, e erts and arents, the vision o educational organisation as ell as living s ace, national standards and the vie oints o global learning. 4 Consultant's opinion Natalija Komljanc, PhD (The National Institute of the Republic of Slovenia): The innovation project (IP) titled The project work whit a puppet (PWP) - learning, researching and creating of children in the kindergarten; the innovation element - didactical map of Trnovo kindergarten with the project managers Mojca Zupan and Dora Gobec and under the guidance of the headmaster Suzana Antič is nominated as pedagogical invention - discovery. Based on the multi-annual pedagogical research of education with a puppet and thorough assessment of the impacts, the project group prepared didactical instrument - a tool - their own guide and improved it through its usage so it can be of use to everyone who is interested. The didactical map enables holistic and up-to-date planning of education in the kindergarten. Assessing and evaluating impacts influences on re-planning of the educational process of the youngest and their teachers. The procedural planning has lead to the changes in planning of pre-school curriculum which detects and considers the needs of children and teachers' skills, environmental opportunities as well as the possibilities for optimal implementation of the national and global curriculum. The planning has been accepted by all participants in educational process (mostly children). Each and everyone is doing the best they can to participate in the educational process. This the base for the didactical map to constantly encourage team work, satisfaction of needs and expectations of the youngest and their teachers and to innovatively connect the contents which are a learning magnet for children. The didactical map has been tested by a larger group of teachers and improved during its usage (see the appendix: didactical map). It is not just one-side structural template, but it is a computer- supported application which enables the teacher simultaneous and constant procedural planning, mutual cooperation and co-influence of the team on the educational work in the kindergar- ten. It also enables more accurate formative assessment of 5 education and uick and trustworthy mutual information. At the same time, it can also be used as application for forming a report on the didactical contribution of teachers of the entire kindergarten and also for realization of the vision. The usage of the didactical map has encouraged the teachers to self-assess - discover the answers to the research uestions: . ow does a child react to the teacher's encouragements and . ow does a teacher influence on his her own professional development To conclude, we wish the management and teachers of the kindergarten and the parents and their children to have a prosperous education from the early childhood. Helena Ina Rupnik (kindergarten teacher): The didactical map is a tool for e ective planning, implementing and assessing of school curriculum. It presents a framework that o ers plenty of room for the activities of children and teachers. Barbara Hm (parent): I really like the fact that the whole kindergarten cooperates. They are very creative and innovative. Everyone has their own spot and can contribute to the common goal. This is a very precious form of work from the parents' point of view. 6 Int o uction We imagine that you would like to experience something fresh, ne , an innovation. ur thoughts and ideas are combined reel as de ned in the Slovenian language dictionar , there ore e will try to introduce them to you and encourage you to devote our a ention to them. e ould like ou to enjo the thought o innovation and ideas. Let them ins ire ou to gras a ne o ortunit and ma be even come u ith an a esome idea. our thoughts and ideas are similar, e ill be ha to kee ou com an ith this manual or even coo erate ith ou in ractice. dating is too o en a dull rustration, es eciall i the management deals with it in the wrong way or if one does not ant to im rove. Like ise, the roblem remains i our colleagues and friends are not there to support our idea at least for a while, until the idea evolves, blossoms and nall occurs. n the other hand, the u dating o one s o n ork can be ver interesting, stimulating, rejuvenating, ins iring and creative. Do ou ant to kno i e got luck es, e did. e succeeded ith the hel o Mrs Dora Gobec and the su ort o the management, them being in close coo eration ith the roject ork, as ell as ith e ert orkers ho ere in continuous contact ith the kindergarten sta and children. rom time to time, e also had the rivilege to gain the su ort o consultant Natalija Komljanc, hD. ou still do not believe us n that case, e will enjoy your company even more so you can see for yourself and become interested as ell. e ill sho ou the things e are roud o e ill sho ou our discover . n the a to ards sustainable, reliable and reliable and sensible education in the Trnovo kindergarten, e ould like to make ne riends. 7 p atin pe a o ic inno ation suall e deal ith the u date rocess on our o n, li le b li le. ut hen e ish to have more and to do be er, e become more serious and res onsible. The members o a team, a roject ork, su ort each other e share our kno ledge and our jo . a iness is an essential element it is im ossible to orm a goal ithout it and the goal is leading us to ard innovation. nnovation starts at the ver beginning, hen the idea and ur ose arise. An innovation roject is a suitable orm o lanning the u date, as it assures enough time and s ace or ne ideas, or testing and or rom t eedback rom di erent actors about the ositive e ect o the edagogical innovation, it as e call it. nnovative rojects in coo eration ith the National ducation nstitute o the e ublic o Slovenia are one o the orms or u dating the education s stem that enable teachers to s stematicall observe and im rove their education. The give us time or re ection on hether the ne edagogic a roaches reall reliabl and objectivel enable im rovements and ho are the erceived b us and b those ho accom an us our children o course. ositive changes should be recognised b all education actors that take art roactivel in nding and develo ing edagogical novelties. This orm o u dating includes arents, ho have the o ortunit to not onl ollo the develo ment o their children, their relationshi ith others ithin a social grou lead b an educator and the e ect o ha iness but also to in uence directl the contents o the edagogic novelt . 8 The term innovation re ers to something ne , o course be er than be ore and more e cient as ell. t re ers to an e ected change that is adjusted b all the artici ants in the education. At the same time, innovators are al a s o en to o ortunities that arise in the rocess o discovering the novelt . This is a skill o a detective detection in the immediate activit , ervaded b search and discover . 9 Pe a o ic inno ation in in e a ten im lementing the roject ork ith a u et over the ears, the children and kindergarten em lo ees have become real detectives and not onl that but the have become roducers, scri t riters, actors, u et la ers, lm roducers and also critics ell, not reall , let s just sa the have become researchers o their o n ractice. n doing that, the have never orgo en ho to be e cellent teachers ho not onl lan, im lement and assess their ork coincidentall but as innovators, the dedicate themselves to the rocess o novelt ormation ithin s ontaneous discover . This makes our kindergarten someho di erent, interesting, unusual, e citing or ever one and al a s consistent. ur ork is guided b research uestions that e constantl com lement, u date, modi and ada t according to the develo ment o innovation. Some o these uestions are hat kind o animations create com le learning situations and edagogical intervention, so that the child can develo coherent thinking unction hat basic kno ledge does a reschool child need and hat kind o education is suitable or him her The ans ers to these uestions can be obtained ith the hel o our u et, hich is the ruit o the educators imagination and is created and animated b educators, res ecting the guidelines o the roject ork ith a u et. A u et can launch an educational situation that triggers an idea in a child thinking and conse uentl also his her action s eech . ro essional sta uses di erent methods to assess and note the times hen the u et triggers the longest more com le thinking rocesses and reactions. e are also interested in the element that creates the most intensive thinking reactions in a child o can e get ualitative eedback rom children n order to achieve this, simultaneous and continuous sel regulation o edagogical in uence is needed, hich can be obtained b re ection on hen e achieve the highest level o e cienc in our 10 leadershi , encouragement and hen a child is the most e cient ithout our intervention. ere are t o e am les During the rocess o education, one o the teachers asked a uestion at the end o the re ection o can dra oetr out o a child and o can nd a close range of thought development of an individual child in my social learning grou as ri en alread b gotsk 1 . Sel e amination sel anal se enables e ert orkers to discover which learning theories they mainly use and how the parents and their children react to these individual teaching a roaches. n this a , leadershi o the educational rocess and teachers learning becomes more and more conscious, vivid actual and s stematic. The reason or that is sharing their sel re ections ith each other to enable s nchronisation harmonisation and also to constantl im rove their edagogical ractice. To achieve this, the use edagogical rinci les recommended hen u dating edagogical ractice ithin the innovation rojects o the National ducation nstitute 1. creating, 2. u dating modi ing, . acce ting ideas and bringing them to li e, 4. connecting ith each other, . s reading ideas and edagogical novelties, . im le- menting the strateg o action research, . discovering our o n ractice, . su ort o innovation b management, . guidance o several levels o novelt develo ment, 10. consultant s su ort o the innovation, 11. coo eration bet een the members o the team is o timal, 12. to be guided b research uestions, 1 . to be guided b a goal, 1 . the goal as a edagogic novelt . ou can nd more on the educational rinci les o modi cation at h . rss.si de ault.as rub 212 and learn more about ho to become a art o the innovation rojects. 11 Professional sta of IP Planning of the story 12 Pe a o ical inno ation I PR T RK IT P PP T (P P During the rocess o u dating ractice, the roject ork ith a u et and the method o action research ere the means that helped us develop pedagogical principles that complement one another and are present in everyday life (experiences): 1. Team o an mutual supplementin A Kindergarten unctions as a hole, com rising individual e ert teams that are engaged in an annual roject. The teams can be ermanent or occasional, having the ur ose to learn rom each other, to be connected ith each other and to enable adults and children to ass rom one activit to another. 2. chan e of chil en an teache s bet een oups We im lement vertical coo eration, integration and im rovement in our ork. n several research orksho s, e take into consideration strong elds o ersonal develo ment o children and adults. This enables a constant ossibilit or children to choose activities. Moreover, it enables diverse coo eration bet een eers and adults. n this a , children and e ert orkers gain e eriences through learning in varied social interactions. 3. P oacti e coope ation ith pa ents The artici ation o arents ho collaborate in an inventive a ith de artments All arents get in ormation via ntranet grou s and are invited to artici ate in im lementation o the educational rocess at the kindergarten. arents take art b enriching, sta ing and orking at the kindergarten. t is also vital to consider arents re ections and other orms o eedback on child erce tion and his or her satis action ith sta ing at the kindergarten. Suggestions, res onses and uestions as ell as other orms o communication bet een arents and e erts are evaluated ith their 13 assistance, the quality of staying and learning at the kindergarten improves constantly. 4. a eness of e ucational mission ermanent sel re ections and skill u dating ontinuous learning and assessing the theor o recognition about child develo ment re uires vigilance and the ca abilit o e ert orkers, since the children communicate and sho their needs, ishes and demands or sensible learning and research all the time. There ore, e ert orkers make ever one a are continuousl ho im ortant it is to sel re ect ithin di erent teams. t is an insight into the er orming rocess o individual activities and into a child s reaction, involvement, learning, behaviour and mutual interactions. To be able to obtain ro essional and subtle re ection, one needs to learn, im rove and e change mutual e eriences and kno ledge on a dail basis, hich is a common ractice in our kindergarten. 5. Disco e in ention an inno ation Needs and demands of children, arents e ectations and tendencies o e ert orkers to achieve ersonal, ro essional and social gro th are the guidelines or our em lo ees, ho erceive innovation as their a o thinking and orking. e also react to the demands o the ider social environment, hich change constantl . 6. Inte ation an connection via content and ro les o the e ert orkers This section relates to the , hich is s read throughout the vertical and hori ontal a es through its stor that is created in the kindergarten and through several didactical hases. The selection o content is in accordance ith the ca acities o a child in an individual develo ment hase, o ering o en o ortunities or e change, e citement and connection bet een contents and children. ert orkers develo their strong areas ithin diverse teams such as the multidisci linar team o em lo ees social orker, biologist, teacher, multimedia teacher, dance teacher, etc. . e intert ine and connect the idth and diversit o ro essional re kno ledge 14 and enrich the child s inde endent discover and creation, as e are o ering di erent li e ers ectives and su orting di erent st les o teaching and discover and di erent conce ts o this orld. . Open hidden curriculum as a basis or subjective theor The creation o has ormed an o en social environment and innovative ossibilities or modi ed lanning, im lementation, assessment and evaluation o all education rocesses in kindergarten. Among other things, e anted to reduce the im act o resent elements o the hidden curriculum. Mutual learning and additional uali cation o sta in uence reducing the unction o so called subjective theories that a erson erceives as a constant rocess o social li e. . ocial communication net o clarit and accurac o mutual communication es ecting the organisation o ork and content o school curriculum, e have ormed the rinci le o coo eration and integration o all involved in the rocess. A communication net ork has been develo ed ste b ste considering the ca abilities and kno ledge. e have set u an intranet that connects em lo ees o the kindergarten ith di erent individual de artments, arents and e ert orkers. e have launched the kindergarten s eb age. e use edagogical olders o de artments, stud olders and D resentations o activities er ormed b children. Moreover, e organise in ormal reunions and other events. The oint o the net orking is to ensure constant availabilit or arents so the can contact us henever the need to. 15 9. hil en a e the co e of the e ucational p ocess The school curriculum is formed in such way that children and teachers can create it together. Children and teachers suggest, modify, complete, discover, ask and react to the demands of the environment in hich the unction and develo . 10. hil en a e especte The Trnovo kindergarten mo o is The children are visible noticed , heard and res ected. es ect is ensured through o en communication, se ng a good e am le and ethical relations su orted b modern learning theories that take into consideration the needs and e ectations o children, parents and teachers. The impact of the sto on the up atin p ocess We have replaced the academic learning approach with direct coo eration co e istence bet een a teacher and a child. The la er dictates the s eed o sel education and sel develo ment. The child is the central individual in the educational rocess. A u et, on the other hand, has the role o a strong motivator and a launcher o learning activit and it is also a child s riend. The teacher ho is an animator leader uses strong emotional situations as an o ortunit or a child to learn, sel control, self-actualise and self-realise. The d namics o communication and erce tion are enormous. The story unfolds. It is the story of all stories and a reality actualit at the same time. The realit is changed, ada ted, checked, tested, guessed, adjusted and created according to the needs and e ectations o children and teachers ho communicate with each other intensively. The story unfolds and creates at the same time. t enables invention and connection ith real events. 16 Puppet animation - the director erdo A stor unites imagination and realit into a hole. t enables a logical se uence o events in a articular literal activit it orms a tale. rom a edagogical oint o vie , a stor re resents an o ortunit or ersonal e eriences and joint activities, taking into consideration the ossibilit and encouragement to use imagination and ca abilit or creation. ur brains rocess a stor in a com letel di erent a com ared to the acce ted rule, instruction, e lanation or clari cation. A stor enables a creation ith a re ection and creation o the ine istent or o hat e do not kno e ists. t is ne or us an invention. The stor itsel is a tool or achieving the lanned goals. At the same time, the stor continuousl motivates children and teachers e ternall as ell as internall . the method o action research, e constantl create monologue, dialogue and multilogue. or the develo ment o a child, it is im ortant that s he kno s all the time hat is ha ening, hat s he can in uence, hat can be changed and hat can be created. The u et a racts a child emotionall because it is his her riend. A ositive sel image encourages a child s sel develo ment and the 17 com etences that s he gains through e eriential learning in an a ractive a . The child kno s s he is the most im ortant agent in his her li e learning stor . This em o erment gives a child momentum, and it motivates him her to ards active co o eration. The child has the o ortunit to la in di erent learning situations that in uence the creation o a ersonal learning st le and ada tation to li e changes. ver the ears, the annual stor is develo ed b the motivation o a child or la ing, discovering and researching. The motivation o a child and his her illingness are the threads and a challenge or a teacher in order to iden his her ro essional stand oint and the as iration or creation ith other members o the ro essional team. The created stor is there ore an e tremel interesting thematic challenge or children. The stor is a magnet or e eriential learning. suall , it has three hases unites 1. resentation o the it o Ljubljana in the Middle Ages and toda a roject Kralj Matja in Alenčica , 2. S ace roject Traja , . The meado s o Ljubljansko arje roject kratovilka Minu , 4. isiting di erent countries roject omor čak Karlo , . Develo ing technological and technical skills roject astir ene in njegova agoda . The story is a link between tradition and modern life. It guided us toward the discovery of human history, tradition, customs, cuisine and ways of communication. We have connected the ndings with similar contents and upgraded the knowledge, says teacher T.P. Music helps children to develop their imagination, ideas, innovativeness, critical thinking and creativity. When the music is accompanied by the puppets that introduce the story and the problem, a child's perception of the music is di erent. As the puppet presents the problem and asks the children for help, it arouses a process of empathy in a child. By doing that, it addresses child's sensual and emotional perception, believes teacher .S. 18 "The puppet raises in each and every teacher his/her inner child that the nurse all the time, sa s teacher K. The thematic stories have an e tremel strong in uence on the atmos here at the Trnovo kindergarten. The in uence the organisation o educational rocess and ro essional ork as ell as on coo eration bet een e erts in and out o the kindergarten, management, arents and children. The encourage the general research uestion o to enable vivid ro essional develo ment or ro essional orkers o to establish learning rom and bet een each other The stories contain humour, jo ulness, ha iness and cheer ulness that can be seen in eo le s reactions, in learning, in education and in ever da li e. ur thoughts and ideas that are bound together have roduced created a edagogical goal that led to the innovation edagogic novelt called i actical map . 19 Pe a o ical inno ation II DID TI P n the school ear 2012 201 , the roject grou o the innovation roject o the nstitute o ducation has, in collaboration ith Dora Gobec and consultant Natalija Komljanc, hD, develo ed, tested and evaluated the didactical tool didactical ma . The ma de nes the holistic lanning, im lementation and evaluation o the school curriculum. The tool reveals the ollo ing structure o the roject basic e eriential learning and child s signi cant artici ation in the rocess o lanning, the course and the rocess o activit o a child s and teacher s research hat e actl have the children and the teachers gained rom a articular roject and hat ere the im acts o the other actors learning conte t, arents role, social interactions . e es eciall a reciate the sel re ection o e ert orkers, as the re ect on the unctionalit o the didactical tool considering the a a teacher reveals his her ersonal and ro essional develo ment as ell as his her relation ith children and ho the children react to the initiative and su ort o the teacher. The didactical ma is a novelt , a result o the uest or the ath o assessment o the educational rocess and its im acts. t is a strateg , a hel or an e ert orker, and it is at his her dis osal hen a teacher think res onsibl about the ath to ards the goal and about the goal itsel during the rocess o active im lementation o education. t is com letel logical to o timall re are in advance hen taking a tri or hen deciding on major ork, costs, li e changes or urchases. ut hen it comes to education, e tend to resort to coincidental decisions and even random reactions. The didactical 20 ma hel s us to logicall and s stematicall lead the assessment o the develo ment o a child, e ert orkers and a school curriculum. ormative assessment has man de nitions. n our case, it is de ned as the orm o assessing im act, reaction, mutual eedback, edagogic communication, use o situational learning and other learning orms o children and teachers. The ormative assessment is not onl occasional evaluation, checking , but it is a though ul lanning o activities ith a reason. t is based on situations, encouragements, needs and e ectations o artici ants in the educational rocess, taking into consideration their re kno ledge, needs and interests. A great em hasis in the rocess o ormative assessment lies on the agreement about the ormation o learning ur ose and de ning ersonal and collective learning goals. Great a ention is aid to the learning methods and observation o learning st les. urthermore, the content is becomes and remains a learning magnet that stimulates the child in such a a that it a racts the child s a ention, activates him her and kee s him her interested until the goal is achieved. The e ert orker gives meaning to the activities and results. Moreover, s he binds them together into ne logical learning or educational beads connections, a tudes, relations and looks or the in ormation on im rovement. S he also chooses comments and encouragements so the learning rocess un olds ithout disturbance in order to achieve the goal. The e ert orker encourages sel re ections and learning, and s he also encourages children to gather the best sources and evidences to rove that the can, kno , develo , need, give and share. ver one is looking or ard to the interesting or olios that are not onl the collections o ha hours in the kindergarten but re ections o the real develo ment, ersonal gro th and im rovement that arents and teachers look or ard to and o hich ever child is roud o and gives him her the con dence to create ne o ortunities. The or olio turns into a diar o li e 21 and a ne orm o lanning a creation and solutions to li e challenges. The use of up atin i actical map The didactical ma is meant or the hole organisation including e ert orkers at the kindergarten and management as ell in order to acilitate the assessment o im lementing the rogramme at the kindergarten. t is also designed or the e ert orkers ho lan kindergarten curriculum and their o n curriculum simultaneousl . The didactical stor in our case it is also a literar stor has its course o events and time, there ore the didactical ma takes into consideration the timeline o three there could be less or more, de ending on the stor learning educational eriods. The ormation o the timeline coincides ith the develo ment o the didactical stor that un olds according to the methodolog o sel regulation ith the hel o an inde endent, autonomous sel regulation rocess or hich ever teacher holds his her res onsibilit in ever social grou . n the learning rocess, there are not just mere coincidences. The stories are ri en deliberatel , the are animated and real and the are learning stories that teachers and children create more or less consciousl and unconsciousl . The lanning is there ore a conse uence o acts and the reason or necessit . ver lan has its theme and content content units . The la er are ormed based on the gathered acts and de ned determined in the logical realistic research uestion that ollo s our thinking. The research uestion is not onl a good guide hen it comes to determining the education strateg , but it also outlines and sha es our goal the uture o the learning ath. A art rom the outcome, the goal also de nes the methodological ath and e oses the ossibilities or assessing and evaluating the measures or determining success ul achievement o the goal. Moreover, it dictates learning sources, materials and the creation o the learning environment. Learning environment does not onl 22 represent a space, but it is a philosophy of work, and it includes actual actions in a s ace, so a thought can be born. A teacher is not a classic lecturer or an animator or u eteer. A teacher is a strategist ho recisel redicts the events and there ore creates an educational scri t leaving s ace and time in the lan and education itsel or introducing reactions that ha en in the direct real learning stor . The teacher redicts, re ects and lans the alternatives as ell, so that s he can logicall and e cientl react to the messages and reactions o the children. ou are be er re ared or a journe , ou are less likel to ace une ected situations. The im ortant main art o the didactical stor is the rocess o im lementing the educational activit . t is e ui ed ith the research discover and creativit o children and teachers and other artici ants in the rocess . During the creative rocess o discover and develo ment, the teacher directs the a ention to ards him her sel , to ards children, methods, education st les, sources and materials as ell as to ards the hole learning educational environment. The a ention is ocused on all as ects and on the central icture o ongoing activities and interaction, including the s eci c eatures in the rocess o ada tation. recisel because o such com le it , d namics, e troversion and tolerance, it is im ortant ho the im lementation o the educational rocess is carried out. t is recommended to ollo and gather in ormation on learning ualit , a rocess hich is alive and hich changes all the time since various eedback, gathered and roven, orms the driving orce, energ , source o o er in the rocess o education o children b e ert orkers, arents and other artici ants. n that respect, all our senses are more than welcome, as are also all the e ternal detectors that hel to gather, select, sort and decide on the course o learning rocess. t is an active bank o in ormation that is created and directed ith the hel o sel regulative mechanism in our brains. 23 hile gathering in ormation, the action research ocuses on the observation o the in ormation through the rism o three as ects triangulation suddenl , simultaneousl , so that the data rom an intersection ould turn out to be the most relevant, that hich e can trust and hich e could use in the uture rocess, es eciall because e should select one single goal rom the di erent activities. Sel re ections and joint re ections on ever educational level in the kindergarten are the source o o er to start u an learning rocess, hich is h e should a a ention to ho to im lement them and com are them to the in ormation obtained directl in educational and edagogical actions. esides re ecting on the direct events, e should re ect also on long term im acts and ossible u dates innovations in the rocess o education that indicate the ell timed current , interesting and real needs or u dating the didactic o education. This means that the didactical ma e tracts and sho s ossible, logical and vital aths to ard sel im rovement o the educational vision, didactical u dates rom an organisational and leadershi oint o vie . t is al a s good to kee the sources that turned out to be e ective as ell as reserve sources that might come in hand in the uture. things are ell oreseen and considered, it is much easier to leave on a demanding journe , ho ever e need the a areness that certain circumstances cannot be redicted and e ll just have to ace the challenges on the s ot. e ll have to be innovative. At that oint, e ll use the e eriences o the entire team grou . e start the journe in a good mood as i e are going to a art that has been ell re ared in advance organised. hen e are eeling good, our brains orm di erent associations. The release di erent kinds o electric stimulation and chemical substances and lead to a di erent goal than the ould i e elt angr , scared or uninterested. The didactical ma enables the celebration or ever one and it makes it ossible to e erience success, ha iness, cheer ulness and mostl a desire or learning. t is not onl the child s mood that counts but also the teacher s 24 ell being, as his her mood strongl in uences the child s condition his her reaction brain reaction . As the sa , like a racts like. This is the basis. n addition, it is necessar to master the entire situational learning, good observation and assessment and detecting o the needs and e ectations o the children, teacher, environment or situation. All these elements dictate a logical educational rocess that is not arti cial or onl uncontrollable and lanned onl rom the outside, in no connection ith the real grou o children and real teacher. oor skills in situational education and eak assessment can o en sto the natural o o the learning rocess. There ore, it is im ortant to choose the right ath or creating a school curriculum. In order to feel good in the organisation, teachers and a good team need good and e cient leadership, innovative spirit in the kindergarten, learning and educating of the entire professional sta as well as tight mutual cooperation. The same mo o that applies for children goes for all employees: to be visible, heard and respected. Everyone forms their own universe and by providing good conditions and care, (s)he can participate his her best on a professional and personal level. Taking care for an individual is the unwri en value of the kindergarten. Satis ed individuals form a contented harmonised group that reflects and encourages all the agents in the kindergarten, believes the roject develo ment team. 25 By developing an innovative element - didactical map - we have gained a tool that enables expert workers more competent and holistic planning, implementation, assessing and evaluating of the educational process from the point of view of improvement and development of children, expert workers and project work with a puppet (PWP) itself. It enables professional workers and management insight into the process of planning, implementing and evaluating the results, adds the project group. 26 icture the didactical ma or urther instructions visit h .vrtectrnovo.si rojekti.html 27 Pe a o ical inno ation III RRI The curriculum is a term describing the ongoing work, the learning lan. There could be one lan. t begins and nishes ith one stor that has a beginning introduction, middle and end. o ever, the lan can be continuous and ermanent. t develo s logicall like a series and it can be a rocess lan including the entire logical d namics o learning. A rocess school curriculum that does not include the didactical ma is not necessaril alive, action oriented, d namic and o en and above all it is not necessaril logical. There ore, the didactical ma is the essential and ke innovation, a motion element that u grades rom one e isode to the ne t, logical or all u ils. The lan can be moderate, i e believe e ll use onl the things e alread have and kno . ut it can be enriched, enabling more and o ering more interesting e eriences. the goal has been cut do n or is im ractical and ormed as an ans er or rule, then it cannot rovide o timal ossibilities or research, discover and re ection, but it onl rovides mechanical learning and re etition o the things that have alread been heard. The lan that has multi le la ers multila er in curriculum enables more insight. Multilayer planning of PWP represents an open learning system that intertwines and connects co-dependent levels such as: . arrative level (narration): the puppet and its story as representation of art, . Thematic level: themes for children's research and . The level of children's activities: experiential, process level of basic learning, em hasises the develo ment team. 28 Inst uction fo up atin cu iculum Maybe you will be tempted to try to plan, implement, assess and evaluate the educational rocess o learning ith children and colleagues in a di erent a . or this reason, e have re ared a sim le guide manual describing the instructions on dealing ith this and making the novelt ha en. The organisation, i.e. kindergarten school , is an o en learning environment ith a vision, strateg and mission o a teacher or a hiloso h o education. All these basic organisational elements su ort and com lement each other, having also the o er to sel im rove and sel restore. Like ever organisation, our kindergarten also has a clearl set vision about hat it ould like to achieve. The kindergarten vision has been modi ing over the ears in the direction o assessing ne theoretical ndings about child develo ment and achieved develo ment tendencies o the kindergarten on the level o school curriculum. onstant ormative assessment together ith re ections aves the a or urther ualitative im lementation o reschool education and ractice in kindergarten. This art o the vision re resents the constant in the timeline, a rame ithin hich the children, expert workers, parents and environment dictate our tem o, rh thm and content. The vision is e erienced in mutual creation, hich is develo ed in a sa e, o en, encouraging and leasant environment, here children, management, he ro essional team and arents live ith each other and learn rom each other. 29 knight games Given that the kindergarten curriculum is an o en and e ible national document, it surel gives the o ortunit to ever one to create and u date the educational rocess and dra an educational lan. The conce t and lan are in arallel ith the third document the learning lan. All together orm a unit that enables an inde endent search or the most a ro riate strateg o sel develo ment. At the Trnovo kindergarten, the ollo ing uestion as raised hat and hich tools do the children and teachers need in order to develop personal strategies and skills that are in accordance ith their ersonal develo ment The management o the educational organisation in uences the creation o the mentioned documents and conditions or im lementing the edagogic ork. t enables a creative, innovative and o en learning environment here the hole team o e ert orkers can sho their skills. The leader instils energ into co orkers so the can guide their enthusiasm to ards the desired goal. The management and e ert orkers constantl encourage innovativeness and creativeness. Their im acts unite in joint ro essionalism and originalit . The kindergarten s innovative coo eration in li elong learning re resents a constant or us. 30 The a areness o autonom creates the conditions or em lo ees as ell as or children and their arents, and it creates a stimulating learning environment, an environment that is trust orth , su ortive and o en and in hich ever one can ollo the mutual goals and creations. Satis action ith the achievements is a strong motivation or devoted ork, enabling all colleagues to be visible, heard and res ected. ased on that, multi annual and annual school curriculum is created. t com rises several la ers o the lan and agreements on the best, most o timal course o learning and education. The la ers are the ollo ing ersonal curriculum o a child and teacher, hich is the core o the curriculum. The core has to be able to sel develo over the li e time. The li e at the institution and the institution itsel re uest and enable in their oundation education the children to learn ith the su ort o e erts and teachers. A child, human being, learns on his her o n but also ith the su ort o teachers, mentors and iser ersons and through eer and environmental interaction socialisation . The curriculum lan o the learning course creates, gro s, orms and comes to li e along ith the ersonal lan o the learning course o a child human being, individual and less e erienced one in order that he she becomes more e erienced. This is the basic ur ose or goal o the creation o learning course sel learning, sel education, learning rom li e and or li e . am le Teacher rančka has prepared an interaction between the teacher, children and puppet. It was a lesson in the Slovenian language for Perlita the parrot who wanted to learn the language. The children had been thinking how to help Perlita learn. As Perlita came to the group, uka brought his lorry. Perlita could not pronounce the word lorry even a er they tried hard with the pronunciation for a long time. At the beginning, uka found it funny, but a er a while, he gave up. e was about to walk away with disappointment, but a smile suddenly crossed his face. 31 Luka addressed Perlita - the teacher and said: "I know! Try to say "van", maybe you can do it." Perlita tried very hard and pronounced the word correctly. Luka felt relieved and happy. Luka s motivation or learning as restored. The teacher is atient, ersistent and su ortive. S he encourages the ormation o the child s ersonal curriculum. This is a ver good method o diagnostics o the child s re kno ledge and detection o his her needs and desired e ectations . a child ishes and hen s he ishes, s he introduces the desires and e ectations o learning to the teacher, arents or eers. A child needs to be given enough time to s end it ith eers in social and learning grou s, so that the can get to kno each other and to get amiliar ith ho e ects hat, hat the learn and hat the desire. n this a , a teacher can also nd out the things a child does et not kno and is not et able to do. And this is the right moment or a teacher to add his her ersonal curriculum to the child s the things kno , desire, e ect, hat are m needs or learning, su ort, etc. and to introduce his her e ectations and his her o n curriculum in order that the students can get to kno each other and give meaning to their time s ent together as ell as to encouragement and coo eration. A grou can ut ersonal curricula on dis la , in sight, it can outline them and it can resent them in an interesting a , so that the others can nd themselves in them. ecause the teacher is amiliar ith the desires and e ectations o the kindergarten vision, mission, hiloso h and the conditions, s he surrounds, ra s and enriches his her ersonal curricula in the social learning grou ith the desires and e ectations o the kindergarten. Thus, individuals become a art o the learning communit and can there ore in uence their individual or mutual e ectations in the rocess o ada tation to li e, education and learning. The management o the kindergarten is interested in children s ersonal lans or learning together ithteachers in a articular learning communit . t also 32 successfully balances and regulates mutual needs and e ectations. n the rocess, the management has the su ort o all the e ert orkers, arents and outsourced e erts consultants. " My strong point is interpretation, the ability to adapt into the event, tale and person - a puppet. I have a vivid imagination that sometimes takes me away from the planned. et, I have introduced several elements into the group such as ease, inspiration, cheerfulness, thinking, self-conscience, action and courage, sa s teacher .A. Along ith the learning rocess, the ersonal curricula o children are logicall enriched ithin the school curriculum o the kindergarten in arallel ith the e ectations o the broader social communit , regional local and national lans and curricula and global visions o the orld. n this a , the children learn and discover the conditions that give them the ossibilities and o ortunities or ne e lorations and discoveries as ell as ne rich and rm e eriences. The curriculum is not a one time rocess that is nal but it continues, it is rocedural and it is e ce tionall use ul or lanning o the school curriculum in the so called didactical ma didactics a theor o teaching and the ma a tem late ith a holistic image o objects elements that in uence the course o ork, in our case on learning and educating . The didactical ma re resents a holistic image o elements that guide the teacher through the rocess o e eriential learning in order to achieve mutual learning goals. kno ing a child s ersonal e ectations and orking st les, a teacher can more easil suggest or guide the child to ard creation o a mutual didactical or learning stor . n order to create an educative stor , a teacher, together ith children, gives meaning to the ollo ing conce ts learning themes, content, units, 33 research uestion and learning goal. Moreover, the teacher chooses the methods st le, learning rinci les and learning sources and creates or nds a suitable learning environment in order to achieve the goal. ormation of animated cartoon - pixilation 34 Case study nnovation is a art o our ractice and is integrated into our ever da ork. ur vision and the set goals guide us to ard mutual learning coo eration, mutual relationshi s, e change o e eriences , learning ith a ur ose in order to obtain broad kno ledge and skills and eatures that adults and children need to have success ul and ualitative li e and ork as individuals in the communit children e ert orkers arents environment . During the rst ear 200 200 o our creation and develo ment o a edagogic innovation, the entire team o e erts, under the guidance o Dora Gobec, leader o the develo ment roject, and in the rame ork o seminars on action develo ment, dealt ith the develo ment o our so called lanning o the thematic research, here e er ormed s nthesis o rocedural and thematic lanning. During the second ear 200 200 , e used the same methodolog and made use o heuristic methods to e lore ossible a roaches to the roject ork and rocessed t o research themes arth and ater. e gained e eriences and ro essional skills in ho to guide children according to the learning methods through discover . During the third ear 200 200 , e created, lanned and develo ed the stor ith a u et, thematic units and activities or children. During the ourth 200 2010 and ollo ing ears, e ormed and continued the method o roject ork ith a u et and its stor . The u et has become the third erson . The originalit o the roject ork ith a u et has been continued through artistic and humanistic u grading o the roject ork, and it has been carried out in a concrete educational rocess. n the ears 2012 201 , e develo ed the didactical ma ith the intention to evaluate the school curriculum and annual in collaboration ith the ducational nstitute. The ma is an innovative tool that enriches and gives meaning to the holistic lanning o school curriculum. 35 The entire team o e erts is involved in the educational rocess or develo ment o innovation. n this a , e can join the things e do, think and eel in a logical unit. ur learning and education is roblem oriented, e eriential and directed to ard critical thinking and develo ment o thinking habits that re resent an integral art o our learning rocess. n our internal seminars, e combine ractical e eriences ith theoretical kno ledge, enabling the trans ormation o theor into ractice and encouraging the learning o inde endent unctioning. The ractice leads to ne discoveries, es eciall hen e think about it and combine it ith the kno ledge, theories and o inions o others. The re ections are shared ith others in a rela ed and e ual environment. t is onl through the relations ith others that e get to kno and control ourselves and give meaning at the same time to our ro essional mission ithin the diversit o mutual relations in the orking rocess. This kind o learning hel s us develo our ideas that e clari , s read, ada t, modi and nall orm as grou s. Doing that, e ca ture di erent interests, characteristic eatures, values, relations ith ourselves and others and other ersonal and social skills. e are a are that e can be stronger i e do things together and i e consider other eo le s kno ledge, o inions and belie s. The annual rojects o action research hel us gain ne com etences that im rove our ork. onse uentl , ever one involved in the rocess is more satis ed and ro essionall ul lled, including the entire ro essional sta , hich gro s and learns. This can be observed in be er ualit o ork, be er understanding o develo mental needs and s eci c eatures o a child and hat is the most im ortant, greater connection bet een the ro essional sta and more success ul solving o mutual challenges. 36 n our research a er o 200 , the kindergarten sta evaluated the training o e ert orkers or the develo ment o innovation o the edagogic ractice rom the oint o vie o e eriential learning and education. The subject o the research as the role o e eriential learning in the educational rocess, to hich our kindergarten a s s ecial a ention. Grou intervie s and ualitative anal ses o intervie data enabled us to establish ho the e ert orkers in kindergarten understand e eriential learning and ho the im lement it in their ork. The results have sho n that e eriential learning is understood as a holistic a roach that can be im lemented on ever level o educational ractice at an time. A great source o kno ledge that as gained through the e eriences as mutual learning in our internal seminars on develo ment. The ossibilities to learn rom other co orkers ho have more e erience re resent a great value or the teachers. The e eriences are im ortant or coo erating and acing di erent challenges. Ne kno ledge and e eriences that the e ert orkers gain and create during the rocess o social interaction are simultaneousl introduced and tested in their ork ith children. The are a are o the act that their role, hich is ocused on the children, is decisive and ver im ortant in the rocess o e eriential learning o children. Nevertheless, in order to be success ul in learning, a child needs to be illing and ca able to learn. The e ert orkers see the o ortunities to use their kno ledge in ractice in learning rom each other hen the e eriential learning is not onl gained rom others but the too can be that source o kno ledge , rom stud ing di erent literature and theories and through ractical and eld orksho s, ge ng amiliar ith art and culture, the internet, T in ormation communication technolog and their direct li e e eriences. 37 Musical instrument which children named "murmurator" ( ubori če) " If we gladly share the gained knowledge with co-workers, o en also with parents, we have the possibility and opportunity to discover and develop on a personal, professional as well as social level that leads to progress toward critical, independent and responsible decision making and behaviour" (by management team). 38 Conclusion The project work forms the story. The project is one of the forms of a plan, event planning (events) or expected outcomes. The project (the concept of project) means the plan or a group of plans in order to achieve the goal. The projects can be personal or mutual, usuall in a kindergarten se ng. The roject includes all the elements that the involved need or its realisation and the estimation o its ualit or value. The stor can onl be carried out when the project is implemented. The project planning is needed for the story to happen. The project planning includes (is structured from) the plan, which takes into consideration the starting oint, er ormance o the activities, evaluation o the e ects outcomes and re orts on the achievements. The roject ork can onl be modi ed into a process when it is enriched by the structure of the basic elements o action research such as re lanning on the basis o re ection, er orming action, assessing and gathering o in ormation traceabilit o ac uiring current goal or achieving the basic goal and ne re ections sel re ection o members and the grou , also outside observers consultants, critical riends . The subject is there ore the introduction o an action lan into the roject lanning o the didactical learning stor . The stor ill be co ormed and erceived di erentl b each individual, though robabl i all the lanned circumstances are given as an o timal learning educational, ada tation stor that ill leave a mark in their long term memor and ill be a leasant e am le or solving li e challenges. the stor includes a lot o creative elements, the conce t o creative connectivit o the unkno n ith the things we already know will leave a permanent mark in our thoughts. If the story was open to seeking the best decisions, the pupil will permanently memorise not only the goal itself but the goal that was accompanied by unusual, extraordinary and rich notes. Thus, the u il learned ho to create re erence goals and set the ualit 39 measures o success . That a ern ill hel a u il solve e ce tional li e changes b using re erabl an innovative a roach more so than a rognosticated one in the current goal . e ollo this ath, societ does not need to be concerned about its health and logical rogress and gro th. This sort o ork ill enable eo le to shar en their senses and to be ast and skil ul in detecting the right things that the ill be able to use in the ne t stage. Traja’s return to space 40 Glossary of terms We invite you to read our glossary of the selected terms in which e have brie de ned di erent terms used in this manual. or further reading, we suggest you to take a peek at the listed sources. No. concept de nition 1. a ction organising activities that have a research particular applied development goal 2. d idactical tool, auxiliary, learning complement map for planning, ful lling and assessing as well as evaluating educational work and roles or interactions in the process 3. i magination open area for associations; an extremely important element for creativity and creative thinking 4. f ormative regular assessment; systematic assessment assessment and evaluation of the observed parameters in a particular timeframe 5. i nnovation novelty; expected or unexpected, di erent outcome as a consequence of complex and holistic thinking and functioning; new element is a total novelty or a combination of familiar elements, formed in a new whole 6. s chool planed, ful lled, assessed and curriculum evaluated educational activities 7. p uppet medium, the element of art that opens the imagination; in our case it is "a child's friend" 41 8. mental re ective reaction, children’s feedback reaction of a to teachers, strategies of child's child thinking 9. p lan pre-imagined activity outline of children's and teachers' content. 10. d iscovery participation of an individual in research activities, taking a trip to the unknown place with the desire to get to know and nd something new 11. o pen open with a wide selection of learning contents, activities and materials that environment enable and encourage numerous paths, methods, approaches and tools and which are included in the given situation and conditions considering all the key agents 12. p ersonal delimitation of the expected and and mutual desired challenges of an individual or a goal group 13. p edagogic approach of the planned intervention, intervention with the purpose to achieve the imagined e ect 14. intentional and planned introduction updating of /positive/ changes or novelties into the usual practice 15. f eedback reaction to the given information; passing and assessing the answer of the recipient 16. c rossing the possibility for a child to freely groups chose activities, adults and peers in regard to his/her willingness and interests 42 17. de velopment there are 5 levels within the levels of innovation project: novelty 1. personal development 2. introducing excellent practice 3. developing excellent practice 4. invention, 5. innovation (you can nd more on www.zrss.si under the tab innovation projects) 18. res earch basic question that is the centre of question further development of thoughts and actions of our research 19. re ection consideration, evaluation, feedback, look back on the work done /by individual or a group 20. sel f- recognition of personal pa erns of management thinking, feeling and conducting and its /good/ handling 21. sel f- the process of following the personal realisation vision, a tude, potentials 22. sel f- following your inner impulse and education, carrying them out together with other self- impulses; connecting and development complementing inner and outer motivation 23. sit uation learning from life for life, connected to learning observation and one's own participation in a particular social situation 24. soc ial learning group that socialises - interconnects group and learns at the same time - adapts : all for one and one for all 25. co operation mutual connection and function for everyone's sake 26. lea rning from mutual sharing of skills, experiences, each other knowledge and support 43 27. lea rning environment o ering the possibilities opportunity for cognition and acquirement of something new, yet unknown, a challenge 28. tea ching something that a racts us irresistibly magnet and irrepressibly in order to get to know, research and nd something new 29. mu ltilayer levels of planning the course of curriculum learning that continuously complement are the following: personal (of a child and a teacher), school or kindergarten, local or regional, national and global; multi- level connection and co-dependent in uence of several factors while creating the map that leads to the chosen, imagined, expected and desired goal 30. sto ry narration; context; the world of making sense that is wri en down and lives on paper 44 Bibliography 1. 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