{"id":397,"date":"2021-06-11T15:10:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/ecec\/?p=397"},"modified":"2021-06-11T15:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T22:11:54","slug":"conversations-through-the-fence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/ecec\/2021\/06\/11\/conversations-through-the-fence\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations Through the Fence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Amanda Gillmore and Jade Felty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Gillmore and Jade Felty are second year Early Childhood Education and Care Diploma students at Vancouver Island University. In April 2021 they both started their final Infant & Toddler practicum at two different locations in Central Vancouver Island and ended up being next door neighbours. All that was dividing them was a chain link fence.\u200b <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200bWithin the first few days of Practicum Jade had noticed Amanda and called out to her and waved through the fence. Before this practicum Amanda and Jade had never met in-person, but due to the Pandemic they met in 2020 through the transition of online courses with Vancouver Island University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cOver the past 5 weeks I have had the opportunity to meet with Amanda through the fence at Practicum. It has been wonderful being\u00a0able to\u00a0make contact and connect with another student in my cohort during the isolating times of the Covid-19 pandemic. We exchanged thoughts and feelings about community, connection, our pedagogical narrations, and\u00a0our\u00a0lives. On our last visit Amanda and I exchanged letters.\u201d <\/em>Jade<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI fondly remember the first time that I met Jade in-person. I was outside at my new Practicum Centre, and I heard my name being called, but I didn\u2019t recognize the voice or where it was coming from. I looked up and there waving and smiling through the fence was Jade- my VIU ECEC colleague. Jade and I had only ever met online through our ECEC classes through Zoom. We briefly had a conversation and with agreeance from our Practicum Instructor we decided to meet regularly outside of each of our centre\u2019s sitting along the fence. I had one request that our conversations be organic and focus on each other, self-compassion and heart focused on what each of us needed on that day we would meet. Each week we would check in with one another, normally twice a week, ranging from 30 minutes to 1 hour. It was exactly what both of us needed and we maintained this weekly having our conversations through the fence.\u201d<\/em> Amanda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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