Reggio Emilia

I had the opportunity to attend the exploring European preschools forum last week and identified many insights, while making connections from what I have learned in class. Several professors went on a trip to study early childhood education in Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. They went on this journey to find out and explore some of the best practices for children in preschool. The main topic I noticed in this forum was empowerment. In Denmark the preschool was extremely nature based.…

I want to be an educator that will make a difference in the lives of children and their guardians. I want to incorporate my personal values into my teaching and help foster them among each individual in my classroom. I want to be a role model that they will look up to and want to learn more from. I know that I can attach my personal values in the way I teach. Students can always see a person through the way they speak, dress, and act. I value learning, friendship, independence, responsibility,…

An educator’s beliefs and values stem from their cultural identity which is a sociocultural perspective gained over a lifetime of social and cultural experience. These predetermined values surrounding gender, sexuality, social economic status (SES) and cultural diversity, influence the way the curriculum is enacted commencing from birth within the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) until Year 12 via the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA). An educator that…

Ron Miller (1991), is one of the recent strong voices in the holistic education. In addition to the perspectives stated above, he describes four essential characteristic of holistic education outlined by Andrew P. Johnson 1. Holistic education nurtures the development of the whole person It is not simply worried with building up the intellectual capacities alone or getting higher scores on tests and examinations. Like all humanistic learning theories suggest, holistic learning also in the same…

classroom situations, with the teacher at the head of the class directing the students learning. Nowadays we see a range of classroom learning styles operating, varying to suit both the teachers teaching style and the children 's’ learning styles. The Reggio Emilia approach to learning is becoming a trend in classrooms, with the approach focused on the Educator or Teacher as the partner, researcher, guide and nurturer, together with the children they explore, discover and learn together, rather…

On 01/24/2018, I observed one of an Early Head Start classroom at Kidango, Eden Palms. At 9:30 AM there were four children and one teacher inside of the classroom. At the sand box, Chanel sits on the chair next to the sand box. She uses a red measure cup to scoop the sand from the small sand box. She grasps a wooden square cutout shapes, she holds it and look at it. She places them back to inside of the sandbox. She continues to get a rectangles and diamond shapes. She lines them up inside the…

10 Different Examples Learning is one of the most important activities in which children are engaged. It is at the very core of the educational process, although most of what people learn occurs outside of school. In one of the classrooms there was an object on one of the tables that was a shark box with little pieces of construction paper fish. Each had one of the children’s names on them capitalized so the child could recognize and learn the letters of their name. The teacher would have them…

Being a second-grade teacher in Selah Washington gives way to meeting a new and unique brand of students on a yearly basis. In order to meet the needs of the students who are constantly changing, I have taken a variety of GLAD trainings. Glad strategies are based around reaching all students, but mostly ELL students. The students are involved in their learning, making charts, doing chants, turning and talking, and collaborating with each other for guidance in their answers. When they are…

a) These philosophical approaches which influences play tells me that children need more time and opportunities to play outside especially with nature, the importance of working of working with each child’s parents for child’s need and interest to help with their development, children should be given more opportunities to be independent and told the importance of natural material for the children. Theses philosophical approaches have shaped the EYFS by adding laws and policies for children’s…

One of the most important strategies that are implemented by the provision of art opportunities for all the students is to combine generalist classroom teachers and the arts specialists. Generalist teachers are those teachers who are able or expected to handle teaching of more than one subject to students of various grades. This is possible by the involvement of the teachers in the arts in a time when they are free of teaching. This has helped the generalist classroom teachers to develop their…