Reggio Inspired Pedagogy explores a pursuit that lasts for our entire teaching career. Regardless of where we see ourselves on the path to enriching or reflecting on our work with young children, or those who teach them, this intensive three day workshop will provide a deeper knowledge and understanding of the Reggio Emilia approach to teaching in the Early Years. Participants will engage in a variety of provocations and collegial dialogue aimed to encourage reflection on teaching practices, environmental revitalization and a Reggio Inspired image of the child, the teacher, the family, and the school.

Objectives
Participants will:

• Evaluate principles of Reggio inspired practice
• Reflect on one’s own pedagogical stance and teaching practice with the lens of a teacher researcher
• Analyze the implications of approaching curriculum and school life from frameworks inspired by a progettazione ideal and the school as atelier
• Consider the role of the atelier as a place of creativity, research and expressive languages
• Conceptualize the idea of the environment as third teacher with respect to a child’s sense of place, use of space and relationship to the built environment
• Begin to plan for environmental design in Reggio inspired educational environments utilizing the Mosaic Approach
• Actively engage with a community of learners through collaboration, critical reflection and dialogue

Outline 
Session 1: Light, aesthetics and one hundred languages

• Dialogue around and reflect on the principles of the Reggio Emilia Approach
• Engage in the “hundred languages” of representation by exploring light investigations
• Experience a “visual tour” of children’s explorations and investigations with nature and light
• Share insights, reflections for revisiting on Day 2.

Session 2: Teacher as Researcher, the Progettazione and the Atelier

• Engage in reflective dialogue based on insights from Day 1
• Explore the role of the teacher through a research lens, utilizing dialogue, metaphor and “pedagogical innovation”
• Consider progettazione as educational action, weaving connections between planning and design, teaching and learning, the environment and professional learning
• Explore intelligent materials and construct plans for alteliers that enhance the emergence of expressive languages

Session 3: Environment, Spaces, Relations and the Mosaic Approach

• Reflect on the previous days dialogue with reference to the importance of aesthetics, progettazione and “the school as atelier”
• Explore the importance of relational forms in Reggio Inspired spaces
• Utilize brainstorming mind maps to develop the “ideal” Reggio inspired environment
• Create and share metaphors and reflections on the connections between Reggio inspired learning environments and pedagogy

Trainer’s Profile

Methodology

This workshop is composed of opportunities for experiential and collaborative learning opportunities. Participants will have the opportunity to be fully engaged, interact with colleagues and reflect on their own learning in an environment that is supportive and meets an educator’s need to gain practical knowledge that can be applied to teaching practices.

Platform

Zoom
A Zoom account is not required if you are strictly joining Zoom Meetings as a participant. An email invite will be emailed to you prior to the live workshop. Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center. Otherwise, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.

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Target Audience

Teachers, early childhood educators and administrators of children aged 0 to 8 years.

Fees
SGD350.00/person for all 3 sessions
E-certificate will be issued

Other Details
Duration: 3 days, 9 hours
Closing Date:  18 Jan 2021

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