How to write effective learning stories

Margaret Carr and Wendy Lee launched Learning Stories in 2001. Their vision was to document children’s learning using narrative assessment and then compile stories in a portfolio to show the child’s unique learning journey and celebrate them as a learner. Since their inception learning stories have become the dominant form of assessment in New Zealand ECE services. Over the past two decades the purpose, and methods of writing learning stories has been interpreted in numerous ways, not all of which are consistent with the original intentions.