Showing posts with label Reggio Emilia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reggio Emilia. Show all posts

Friday, October 9, 2009

Looking towards 2010

After reading my last blog with all the mistakes in I had better do a better check before I publish. Blogging beside a 11 month old -who loves the lap top is not a good idea.

R. at school is asking me about Reggio Emilia and while I have lots more information about the Reggio Way' I now need to start thinking about putting things into practice. I am not going to rush into it and the more I find out about our 2010 action research project I think that is where I will be aiming. The part from RE about documentation of the children's learning and finished 'product' will be where my I.T stuff will come in. I know its all about improving childrens thinking and therefore learning and I feel I am going to be on the right track.
Also our term 4 inquiry on "what makes a great New Entrant Room" will be a good start.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Action Research 2010

Both Lorraine and Robyn have posed some questions about this and I will spend some time on this blog pondering.

I have really enjoyed being on the whole rellco contract and the final year has come up really fast. I have liked having the amount of freedom we have had to follow our interests ,at our pace. I love my 2 blogs now and it didn't matter that I have taken much longer than other people to become a blogger. I still have lots to learn for my class one but now that parents are interested in putting comments this is the right time to learn more.g
Also we will use it more for our travel buddy experience.-I like it how 2 new things are connecting (TB and blogging ). I can't image life with out all the relection I do on this blog.


Often for me connections happen and those are what I am more likely to follow. Reggio Emilia -which I heard about in Wanganu - is really happening for me right now- my daughter in law has heaps of material on it, she knows people who have expertise and the centre she works at follows lots of their ways - including 'documention'.

As I am always looking for ways to improve the learning for my New Entrants- I am trying to make connections and come up with a Kath Murdoch styled inquiry learning for both me and the class. I think I want to do it together.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Reggio Emilia

I was talking to Chrissie - my lovely daughter in law -who is an early childhood teacher- and she said that when I babysit my moko, while she went to Melbourne a couple of years ago, it was a Reggio Emilia conference she went to. What a small world. I am finding out more about his philosophy etc from internet and I found a book in the library and now I will enjoy 'interviewing' her.