Reflection and analysis on the project "working together" through Reggio approach
Introduction
The Reggio Emilia approach is one of the most advanced, innovative, distinctive, coherent, and high quality infant-toddler and preschool approaches in the world. This approach is founded on a evolving set of perspectives such as progressive education, constructivist psychologies, and postwar left-reform politics. It believes that as educators, we should listen to children's needs and there is a shared image of child as competent, active, and strong learners (Edwards,Gandini, & Forman,1993).. In the project of "working together" conducted in a preschool inspired by Reggio Emilia approach, two co-teachers have observed the need of children to play together as a pair and or a group as well as the conflicts created when …show more content…
Copple and Bredekamp (2006) explain this idea of DAP and encourage teachers to meet learners’ physical, emotional, social and cognitive development and their characteristics as well as identify goals for children which are challenging but achievable. Bodrova and Leong (2007) consider the concept of developmentally appropriate to encompass things children can learn and goals that they can achieve with assistance. The most effective learning is to aim at a higher level of a child’s ZPD. Therefore, teachers are recommended to provide activities, which are beyond what children can do on their own and what they can do with assistance. In this way, both teaching and learning proceed ahead of children’s status all the time. For example, when a child learns to talk, his or her parents do not only provide the actual speech this child has. Parents provide language stimulation at a slightly higher level of the child’s language ability and use more complex grammar than the child is capable of producing. As a result, the child’s language improves and his or her vocabulary
Introduction
The Reggio Emilia approach is one of the most advanced, innovative, distinctive, coherent, and high quality infant-toddler and preschool approaches in the world. This approach is founded on a evolving set of perspectives such as progressive education, constructivist psychologies, and postwar left-reform politics. It believes that as educators, we should listen to children's needs and there is a shared image of child as competent, active, and strong learners (Edwards,Gandini, & Forman,1993).. In the project of "working together" conducted in a preschool inspired by Reggio Emilia approach, two co-teachers have observed the need of children to play together as a pair and or a group as well as the conflicts created when …show more content…
Copple and Bredekamp (2006) explain this idea of DAP and encourage teachers to meet learners’ physical, emotional, social and cognitive development and their characteristics as well as identify goals for children which are challenging but achievable. Bodrova and Leong (2007) consider the concept of developmentally appropriate to encompass things children can learn and goals that they can achieve with assistance. The most effective learning is to aim at a higher level of a child’s ZPD. Therefore, teachers are recommended to provide activities, which are beyond what children can do on their own and what they can do with assistance. In this way, both teaching and learning proceed ahead of children’s status all the time. For example, when a child learns to talk, his or her parents do not only provide the actual speech this child has. Parents provide language stimulation at a slightly higher level of the child’s language ability and use more complex grammar than the child is capable of producing. As a result, the child’s language improves and his or her vocabulary