{"id":239459,"date":"2023-02-24T04:31:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T04:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buoyantbloomer.com\/?p=239459"},"modified":"2023-02-24T04:31:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T04:31:22","slug":"reggio-emilia-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buoyantbloomer.com\/reggio-emilia-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurture curiosity and powerful children with the Reggio Emilia approach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Reggio Emilia approach views children as competent and valuable, which is a nuanced and complementary view to the Montessori approach<\/a>. Unlike in Montessori schools where activities are laid out for children to choose from, the emphasis is on project work. The school days start with an assembly during which teachers plant the seeds for ideas that children might become interested in, and children then choose the projects they will engage in during the rest of the morning through lunch time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Curriculum” in the Reggio Emilia approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Practitioners and educators outside of Italy emphasize the complexity of projects undertaken at Reggio schools. It’s fair to say that the Reggio Emilia approach plants the seeds of project based learning in preschoolers<\/a>, but the Italian term for project based work goes beyond our approach to the idea in the States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When working with children, it’s impossible for them and their adults to envision the outcome of a project at the beginning because: 1) adults don’t have enough information about the children’s ideas, and 2) adults do not yet know what the best way is of exploring those ideas. There is a principle that a child has 100 languages<\/a> which refers to the extraordinary potential children have and the myriad ways in which they express themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are other principles for project work:<\/p>\n\n\n\n