he importance not only of building and supporting the dispo-sitions to interact positively and helpfully with peers, but in the processes of doing so, to learn many complex interactive skills.
Learning while learning. Practicing social and verbal skills while engaging in common interests and constructing knowledge together.
experience of applying their developing skills in purposeful and meaningful ways
Writing their names to show author of the story or drawing, signing a note to a friend or saving a work in progress in the block area in place of repetitive lines on a worksheet.
standards of experience
Standards of experience strikes me as more meaningful learning than Content Standards which could simply be memorizing or being able to recite the content (Sing the ABCs or count out loud). Standards of experience also relates to the quality of the environment and interactions.
The innovative philosophical and pedagogical thinking that Malaguzzi and his various collaborators had constructed became a cultural project that had to be made visible.
Making teaching, research and innovation visible, as well as making learning visible.
equal dignity and value.
Equal with verbal and written languages despite their traditional dominance in education.
atelier could develop through crises connected with social change and the historic situation;
Educational innovation along with social change and historic situation.
intentionally created a disturbance for the dated modelofschool for young children.
Creating disequilibrium and embracing crisis to provoke learning and change.
Ithad to be a place favoring children's logical and creative itineraries, a place for becomingfamiliar withsimilarities anddifferences of verbal and nonverbal languages.
Placing the child as the protagonist and the teachers learning about expressive languages from them.
It also was intended as a reaction against the concept of the education of young children based mainly on words and simpleminded rituals
The youngest children are capable of and worthy of deep planning and thinking.
laboratory
The use of the word laboratory elevates the meaning, as well. It demonstrates that the arts are equally important for constructing knowledge as the math or science areas.
They have autonomouscapacities for constructing their own thoughts, questions and attempts at answers.
Another way of saying a strong image of the child and demonstrating a conviction that children are capable of constructing their own knowledge.
The teacher sometimes works inside the group of children and at other times outside, around the group. From either vantage point, the teacher observes and selectively documents the children’s words, actions, interests, experiences, and activities.
This supports the strategies used by the teachers in the videos. Writing Names, fully present but acting as a support and observer. Incontri tra grafica fully present inside the game. Both valid 'vantage points'
Reggio educators believe in shared control between teachers and children.
This is a shift in thinking for a traditional system. If teachers see themselves as imparting needed knowledge and skills then a creative or outspoken child may find themselves in conflict with the teacher's style.
This intrinsically social view of children—as protagonists with unique per-sonal, historical, and cultural identities
The children as participants in constructing knowledge in contrast to recipients of the teacher's knowledge
creating shared meaning of the schoolchild’s nature, rights, and capacities, members of a community also can come to agree on what kind of teacher is needed to educate and provide for this child
They start with their underlying values to develop their role of the teacher rather than starting with a list of tasks or duties
"tests of children show far fewer capabilities than children exhibit in the course of the day, in conversation"
This needs to be more widely known. Especially by stakeholders that put emphasis on standardized assessments. Young children are often being assessed on intake by people with whom they do have not have a relationship.
o traditional views of children as antisocial or pre-social.
Is this theory from another field? Psychology? Pediatrics? I have not read about this that I can remember in studying Early Childhood Education.
16 Seen and Heard FIGURE 1.6. Children are inherently social at the earliest of ages.© Boulder Journey School, 2010. Listening to Collective (as Well as Individual) Voices: Can Adults Honor Children's Social Lives? Traditional notions of psychosocial development conceptualize children as essentially presocial (i.e., egocentric and in need of training in empathy and per-spective-taking) or as antisocial (i.e., egocentric and in need of adult-imposed so-cial mores) (Oakley, 1994).
I had to read this three times. I misunderstood what was meant by 'social' in the context of this statement.They are saying babies are 'pre-social' until they are not ego-centric'? I was thinking of infants that express a want for touch, holding or comfort, and the gaze of a baby at a face.
done tasks, and even more distant events such as their childr
"Adults and children live with different orientations to time." This is important to be aware of and plan for in order to create a respectful environment and move through transitions.
10 Seen and Heard So it does not depend on the age of the teller, but on the sensitivity of the listener.
This shares the responsibility for communication. It is not only up to the one expressing, but equally up to the one that is receiving to strive for understanding.
Children have a right to solve their own problems whenever they can
Yes! Children who have the skills to attempt to solve their own problems may grow up to adults with those skills.
Children have a right to tell parents and teachers to help them if they have a big problem
Children have a right to be listened to when they share a big problem with a trusted adult.
Children have a right to walk away from people who are bothering them, but ask the bothering people to stop first to see if that works
Conflict resolution, empowerment, self agency and empathy. This embodies so much!
Children have a right to pretend being dead and think about what it means to be dead
As already affirmed, "Children have the right to pretend everything." This one needs its own mention, maybe because grown ups don't talk about it and it makes adults feel uncomfortable. Dying and death is a taboo subject for many, but how do children learn to process and start to understand without discussion and practice? We have no problem letting them role play illness and we encourage role playing parenting.
Each one of you has inside yourself an image of thechild that directs you as you begin to relate to a child.This theory within you pushes you to behave incertain ways; it orients you as you talk to the child,listen to the child, observe the child
This connects to the readings and podcasts from our other class. This statement could easily refer to any person or group of people as we engage and interact. I have an image of __that directs me as I begin to relate to _.
We need to make a big impression on parents, amazethem, convince them that what we are doing is some-thing extremely important for their children and forthem, that we are producing and working with chil-dren to understand their intelligence and their intelli-gences.
So important! What we are doing is valuable work, and it is powerful to share with families that we see it that way.
mphasis of teaching to an emphasis on learning,teachers learning about themselves as teachers aswell as teachers learning about children.
a process of continual improvement to learn about yourself as a teacher of this particular child. This is an aspect that draws me to the Reggio Approach. That we may plan to offer experiences with plants or insects, but every iteration is different than the year/experience before.
When the child is observed, the child is happy — it’salmost an honor that he is observed by an adult. Onthe other hand, a good teacher who knows how toobserve feels good about himself because that personknows that he is able to take something from thesituation, transform it, and understand it in a new
This elevates the value of sharing and reflecting on documentation with children. The child is shown respect when asked for input/clarification and further when the adult revisits and offers thoughts or questions to extend the experience.
couldintheirowncontextreflectontheseideas,keepinginfocusalwaystherelationshipsandlearningthatareinprocesslocallytoexamineneedsandstrengths,thusfindingpossiblewaystoconstructchange
Just like with their students, we are given the opportunity to learn and make the connections, reflections and responses that will fit our own demographics and community contexts. It is harder work than simply picking up a published program and following the guides. But, it is what has been lacking in our response to educational shifts based on one size fits all political policies.
learnersalongwiththechildren.
There is so much power in this philosophy. The teacher as co-discoverer- not needing all the answers. AND, the child as valued collaborator- not passive and needing to be given the answers.
Thelay-outofphysicalspacefostersencounters,communication,andrelationships.
I am concerned that this will be sacrificed in response to physical distancing protocols that public schools are putting into place. I am advocating for relying on social pods to mitigate risk over teaching children to stay away from each other.
Theroleofparents.
The role of the parents- reseach has shown that family engagement (more than fundraising and coming to events) is essential in long term educational outcomes for students. Several years ago, I worked with a pilot two-way-immersion language pre-k: the research showed that parent support was the number one factor in the sustainability of dual language programs.
LorisMalaguzzi
Loris Malaguzzi, a true dynamic change agent to advocate for a different, collaborative view of early education. What was it about his methods and approach to advocacy that made such a mark? What was it about him and/or his message that made stakeholders listen?