“We cannot punish a child for making mistakes. To do so would be to punish them for being children.” -Jayne Mallin Recently Educa hosted a webinar entitled Positive Responses to Children’s Behavior – an outline of Guidance Approach in early childhood education by Jayne Mallin, a New Zealand based educator and home-based early childhood centre coordinator.

How to sharpen your inquiry-based practice through the lens of the environment “… we should aim for an environment that supports teacher growth so the classroom is a place of research where teachers ask questions and act as researchers. The idea of educators being ‘incomplete’ (a quote from a Reggio Emilia conference) in their understanding