This is a presentation created for my COETAIL class. The Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education is the model of instruction that I chose for the assignment.

1. The Reggio Emilia Approach
to Early Childhood Education
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2. Reggio Emilia,
Italy
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3. Loris Malaguzzi
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4. The Capable Child
“...discovering not so much the limits and
weaknesses of children but rather their surprising
and extraordinary strengths and capabilities linked
with an inexhaustible need for expression and
realization.”
Loris Malaguzzi
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5. Competent
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6. Competent
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7. Competent
Inquisitive
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8. Competent
Inquisitive
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9. Full of potential
Competent
Inquisitive
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10. Environment
“It has been said that the environment should act
as a kind of aquarium which reflects the ideas,
ethics, attitudes and cultures of the people who live
in it. This is what we are working toward.”
Loris Malaguzzi
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12. Documentation
“...Teachers must learn to interpret ongoing
processes rather than wait to evaluate results.”
Loris Malaguzzi
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13. Process
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14. Process
Collection
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15. Process
Collection
Reflection
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16. Process
Collection
Reflection
Analysis
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17. Process
Collection
Reflection
Analysis
Presentation
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18. Relationships
“...in our system, we know it is essential to focus on
children...but we do not feel that is enough. We
consider teachers and families as also central to
the education of children.”
Loris Malaguzzi
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19. Children to children
Children and teacher
Teacher to teacher
Teacher and parents
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20. Hundred Languages
“Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to
be more attentive to the cognitive processes of
children than to the results they achieve in various
fields of doing and understanding.”
Loris Malaguzzi
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21. School of knowing
finds connections with
School of expressing
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22. Researcher
“To learn and relearn with the children is our line of
work.”
Loris Malaguzzi
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24. You can not BE Reggio,
because you are not in Reggio.
Reflection
Collaboration
Questioning
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25. Resources
The Hundred Languages of Children edited by Carolyn Edwards, Lella Gandini and George Forman
Working in the Reggio Way by Julianne P. Wurm
Image Credits
lion pic by Pilar Torres
wicker basket by timandangela.org.uk
upside down boy by Tony Trần
boy by wall by d o l f i
boy with camera by Mary Kay2012
circle of children by sourbrew
teacher collaboration by MarthaChristensonLees
back to school night by Barrett Web Coordinator
By Elaine Eastwood Poff
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