Announcements

Galileo Network continues to grow

Galileo Educational Network creates, promotes and disseminates innovative teaching, learning and leading practices through research, professional learning and fostering external collaborations. Galileo works with students, teachers, administrators and policy makers across Canada.

We are very proud of our connections with the first graduating class of the University of Calgary, Education Certificate Program Teaching Tsuut'ina Language and Culture.

Early Learning

Ask any child what they like to do best, and the answer is unanimous -- they want to play. Through play, children become eager, capable learners. They know how to navigate their way through tough problems and social situations, pursuing their own ideas to a successful conclusion.

Galileo is leading three-day workshops dedicated to the recognition, creation and assessment of play-based learning is taking place in early 2012. Register now for Engaging Learning for Early Childhood Professionals for the Calgary area sessions on the CRCPD site and for the Edmonton area on the ERLC site. Workshop facilitaros from Galileo will provide teachers, support staff, day care operators and school administrators information on contemporary early learning theories and research. They will also provide practical advice on documenting and assessing children's learning in play-based environments and effective parent communications.

Together with Alberta Education Galileo Educational Network created this new Early Learning website to inform, to educate, to invite educators, parents and policy makers to rethink the ways in which young children come to learning. We hope to restore a rightful place for play and for learning through play for our children. This website brings forward voices from some of Alberta's own researchers who are working in this field, to help us create images of early learning environments that are more playful in orientation and that are capable of sponsoring deep understanding.