Reflective Practice: A Teacher's Journey with the Reggio Emilia Approach

Reflective Practice is essential for growing in our role as educators. In this lively workshop, we will think about Reflective Practice and how we can use it in our everyday lives with children, while listening to the journey of a public-school elementary teacher with the Reggio Approach:

• What role does reflection play in our practice as educators?
• What does it mean to be an educator inspired by the Reggio Approach?
• How is teaching and learning different or the same when thinking with the Reggio Approach?
• How does learning from one's experiences help us in our own journey?
• How do we practice reflection in schools?

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How can we think about the every-day "problems" at our programs differently?

Education that is current and concerned with the “Now” is constantly engaged with the emerging challenges that we face in real world. In order for us to provide children with the skills required to navigate these everyday challenges, we must start perceiving “problems” differently.

In this workshop, We will work together to re-think possibilities in "real-life" situations.

Participants will be encouraged to think about examples in their own practice and discuss possibilities in emerging challenges.

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“Problems” arise at all times, in our daily life, our programs and our world.At Frog Hollow Children’s Centre we have been thinking about “problems” in new ways: what if a problem was the start to a new beginning? What would happen if we perceived problems as opportunities rather than barriers, and if we embraced them rather than resisting them?

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Audience:
ECE educators, elementary school teachers, principals, school district staff, childcare directors, school age care educators, students, parentsIntermediate level:
For those familiar with the concepts and principles of the Reggio Emilia approachRecommended pre-requisite courses:
Introduction to Reggio Emilia – part 1 & 2

The Dialogue & Dessert discussions are meant to energize public spaces as places of learning about our children.

Social spaces of gathering will be the venue for discussion, collaboration and open conversations about issues that face children, families and early years educators, but may sometimes be “swept under the carpet”.

These events are free of charge and open to educators, parents, teachers, consultants and the public.

Since the on-going conversation is essential for these roundtables, we ask for participants to commit to attending all our upcoming roundtables.

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Audience:
ECE educators, elementary school teachers, principals, school district staff, childcare directors, school age care educators, parents

Introductory level:
For those starting their journey with the Reggio Emilia approach

Recommended pre-requisite courses:
None

The roundtables aim to initiate exciting and stimulating conversation and opportunities to meet others interested in supporting children on their journeys of learning in our communities.These roundtables are held every 3 months.

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Audience:
ECE leaders, University professors, PhD students, professionals from Metro Vancouver school districts, arts organizations

Introductory level:
For those starting their journey with the Reggio Emilia approach

Recommended pre-requisite courses:
None

The educators of Reggio Emilia have been working with the concept of documentation for many years. In BC, we are exploring pedagogical narrations as part of our Early Years Framework and we are working to implement them in our school curriculum. In this dual-track workshop we will explore the possibilities of documentation beyond stories and pictures on the walls.Sharing stories from our Childcare Centres, we will consider how pedagogical narrations become a part of our living documentation at our programs, how the process of documentation enriches our deep investigations with children and how it plays an essential role in involving children and their families in their learning. Some questions we will ponder upon are: what is the role of pedagogical narrations in the process of documentation? What is a living documentation? What is the role of the living documentation in creating cultures of collaboration between educators, children and their families?

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Audience:
ECE educators, elementary school teachers, principals, school district staff, childcare directors, school age care educators, students, parents

Intermediate level:
For those familiar with the concepts and principles of the Reggio Emilia approach

Recommended pre-requisite courses:
Introduction to Reggio Emilia – part 1 &2; What is the Reggio approach to Projects?

School Age programs are traditionally (and widely) perceived as places for children to pass time until their parents return from work and take them home. For anyone who has worked in a School Age program, it is no news that these after school programs are full of potential for children to engage in social interactions, build and maintain meaningful relationships and practice true citizenship.At this dual-track workshop we invite School Age educators to think about their role beyond child-minders and to look deeply into possibilities these short few hours can offer. While we share stories from our School Age children and their educators, we provoke the audience to wonder: How do School Age children view the role of teachers and students? What influences our definition of education, educators and learners? What is the role of the educator in a School Age program? How can we start to think of a School Age program that is a place deep in meaning and crucial in one's self and collective identity?

Contact the Learning Centre for more information.

Audience:
ECE educators, elementary school teachers, principals, school district staff, childcare directors, school age care educators, students, parents

Introductory level:
For those starting their journey with the Reggio Emilia approach

Recommended pre-requisite courses:
None