Enjoying the Learning Process or Arriving at the Destination?? This is a reflection that I wrote to share with my kura after our meeting together last Friday. I thought it would be worth sharing here, as it shares where I am at right now with this WSL role. I am of the firm belief that we should allow children to enjoy the learning process and discover for themselves along the way. If you really see children as capable and competent learners then they may even discover things that we hadn’t intended (hence questioning the whole purpose of planning??) I try not to give children the ‘definitive answer to a question’ that they ask, as along the way they may come up with more ideas and wonderings, discover the answer themselves and encounter other people’s points of view. An example that comes to mind is a discussion we had as a group while sitting around a new emerged monarch butterfly. I asked “I wonder why it is flapping it’s wings like that?” “Oh...