Video transcript – Discovering: Sustained, shared conversation with children

This video shows an educator and a group of children examining natural material in an outdoor area. It focuses on the educator’s role in supporting sustained, shared conversations with the children.  

00:00 – 00:05
Audio: [Music]
Visual description: The ECRH logo followed by the video title appear on a white background: ECRH, Early Childhood Resource Hub. Discovering: Sustained, shared conversation with children

00:06 – 00:38
Audio: [Sounds of children talking and playing in the outdoor area of the service.]
Educator: I can see…
Educator [to Boy]: Oh, are you okay?
Educator [to Girl 1]: I wonder what that is?
Girl 1: Corn!
Educator: It does look like corn. I wonder what those ones are?
Educator [to Girl 2]: Have you got these ones in your bowl? Look at these ones. 
Girl 1: I know where these came from – sunflowers!
Educator: I think you’re right. 
Educator [to Girl 2]: Have you got sunflower seeds in your bowl? 
Girl 3: I’ve got some! 
Educator: And what about, and I wonder what these little, tiny ones are. Look, the little red ones. 
Girl 2: Now look, we have to do it again. 
Visual description: An educator is crouching in the outdoor area of the service, examining the contents of bowls that the children have filled from their surroundings. A group of four children participate in the activity, coming and going from the conversation. Nearby, a boy knocks down some play equipment. 

00:39 – 01:01
Audio: [Sounds of children talking and playing in the outdoor area of the service.]
Child [off camera]: Yeah, they are.
Educator: They are? So, these weren’t from the sunflower seeds that we grew in the garden? Were they? No?
Girl 3: Look at this one.
Educator: Look at this one, Jake. Look at this. Show Jake, he was looking at the sunflower seeds. Maybe we can plant some of those later.
Girl 3: Tiny one.
Educator: Tiny ones?
Visual description: Girl 2 and Girl 1 move on to a new experience. The educator and Girl 3 examine the contents of her bowl, while Jake approaches and joins in the conversation. 

01:02 – 01:25
Audio: [Sounds of children talking and playing in the outdoor area, while pots and pans bang together faintly in the background.]
Educator: You have so many…so, with the girl…
Girl 3: Look at this one.
Educator: It’s got stripes. Let me put it on my hand, okay. It has got stripes. 
Girl 3: And also… we got these ones.
Educator: Ah, so it looks like it… maybe wheat? Maybe wheat or millet?
Girl 3: Bit of bird seed.
Educator: Bird seed?
Girl 3: Yeah.
Educator: I haven’t seen any birds coming down yet. 
Visual description: Jake walks away into another part of the outdoor area as Girl 3 places some of the seeds from the bowl into the educator’s palm. 

01:26 – 01:53
Audio: [Sounds of children talking and playing in the outdoor area, while pots and pans bang together in the background.]
 Jake: This bowl doesn’t have any seeds in it.
Educator: Did you ask the girls if you could have just a few of theirs? Say, “Excuse me.”
Jake: Could I have some…
Educator: Isla?
Jake: Isla.
Educator: Isla, Isla, Jake wanted to ask you, can he just have a few of your seeds, please?
Isla: No.
Educator: Will we go and ask…
Visual description: Isla walks into another part of the outdoor area. Jake approaches with an empty bowl and the educator encourages him to ask Isla for some seeds. Jake walks towards a group of girls to ask for some seeds. 

01:54 – 02:14
Audio: [Sounds of children talking and playing in the outdoor area.]
Educator: Oh, thank you. That’s kind of you. That’s very kind of you too. Thank you. Well, I’m waiting for the birds. Maybe they’re not hungry today.
Girl 4: They might.
Educator: They might?
Girl 4: ‘Cause they haven’t eaten yet. 
Educator: Haven’t eaten yet? So, what…do you think it’ll be…the birds that come here sometimes are the kookaburras and…
Visual description: Girl 1 followed by Isla and Girl 4 place some seeds in Jake’s bowl. Isla then walks into another part of the outdoor area.

02:15 – 02:22
Audio: [Sounds of children talking and playing in the outdoor area.]
Girl 3: I haven’t got one of these ones.
Jake: And the lorikeets.
Educator: The lorikeets. I wonder if they like seed. I know lorikeets like honey and sweet things. 
Visual description: Girl 1 and Isla take and replace the seeds from Jake’s bowl. 

02:23 – 02:33
Audio: [Sounds of children talking and playing in the outdoor area.]
Girl 5: Excuse me.
Educator: Yeah?
Girl 5: Can you please help me put that back there?
Educator: Yep, sure. 
Educator: Oh, it’s fallen in the garden. Isla, would you like to get this side? Do you want to get this side and help me?
Visual description: Girl 5 approaches the educator for help. Isla returns to the group and assists Girl 5 and the educator to lift a large plastic triangular block.

02:34 – 02:57
Audio: [Sounds of children talking and playing in the outdoor area, while pots and pans bang together in the background.] 
Girl 1: Now what do we need to do?
Girl 4: You can have one of those, and I’ll have…
Girl 1: You know what? I know how to… I know how to get lorikeets with a piece of bread.
Educator: Do you?
Girl 1: You just hold a little piece of bread….and then the lorikeets will come.
Educator: And they like bread better than seeds?
Visual description: Girl 5, Isla and the educator move the plastic block on top of a rectangle block. Girl 4 uses her hand to show the educator how she would catch a lorikeet.

02:58 – 03:07
Audio: [Music]
Visual description: The ECRH logo followed by the video production credits and copyright appear on a white background: ECRH, Early Childhood Resource Hub. www.ecrh.edu.au. Copyright 2015 Commonwealth of Australia. Source: National Quality Standard Professional Learning Program – Early Childhood Australia.

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