The Capturing Conversations with Floorbooks webinar series offers a space to explore the pedagogical thinking that sits beneath the Floorbook Approach. Each month, we slow down to explore a key idea, such as inquiry, environments, listening, questions or social justice, and consider how these ways of thinking shape our practice. Guided by Claire Warden’s stories, provocations and reflective pathways, participants are invited into real-time dialogue where ideas, wonderings and insights are captured collectively in a shared Floorbook. This interactive process makes visible the depth of thinking within the group and models the very practices we are exploring. Across the 1.5 hours, educators have the chance to reflect, speak, listen and co-construct meaning alongside others. Whether you join to deepen your pedagogical stance, enrich your team’s inquiry culture, or strengthen your connection to the EYLF, these sessions offer a lively and thoughtful entry point into the art of pedagogical conversation and the Floorbook Approach.

Capturing Conversations with Floorbooks; Inquiry

Inquiry sits at the heart of the Floorbook Approach, inviting educators to return to curiosity as a way of being rather than a disposition to be ticked off on a checklist. This session explores how staying open to the unknown reshapes our decisions, our documentation and the shared direction of learning. 

What you will gain from this session

• Strengthened understanding of inquiry as a way of noticing, questioning and responding, rather than as a task or topic
• Insight into how question-led pedagogy reshapes planning and deepens engagement for both adults and children
• Strategies to strengthen curiosity driven decision making and documentation using the Floorbook Approach

This session may contribute to:

• National Quality Standard (NQS): QA1 Educational Program and Practice 
• Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF): Outcomes 1,2 and 4 – Identity, Connection and Confident Learners
• The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): APST 1.2, 3.3, 6.2 (understanding learners, implementing teaching strategies and engaged professional learning).