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.

Listening is more than hearing; it requires attunement, patience and a willingness to be changed by what we notice. This session explores how the Floorbook Approach shifts us from consultation towards genuine collaboration, where ideas are constructed with children rather than for them.

What you will gain from this session

• A richer understanding of pedagogical listening as a form of inquiry and driver of the Floorbook Approach
• Practical ways to move from ‘collecting students’ voice’ to genuine co-construction of learning 
• Strategies for documenting listening in ways that honour complexity

This session may contribute to:

• National Quality Standard (NQS): QA1 Practice and QA5 Relationships with Children
• Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF): Outcome 1 – agency and identity, Principle – Respectful Relationships
• The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST): APST 3 Plan for and Implement effective teaching and learning