Team Imagination
Every EIA Teaching Member is committed to enriching the lives of every child, parent, co-worker, family and community they partner with through education, support and excellence. “The job of the teacher is to support these qualities and to challenge children in appropriate ways.”- Louise Cadwell.
Features of the Reggio Emilia Approach Teacher Role:
- To co-explore the learning experience with the children
- To provoke ideas, problem solving, and conflict resolution
- To take ideas from the children and return them for further exploration.
- To organize the classroom and materials to be accessible and interesting to the child
- To organize materials to help children make thoughtful decisions.
- To document children’s progress: visual, videotape, tape recording, photos, portfolios
- To help children see the connections between learning and experiences.
- To help children express their knowledge through projects.
- To have a dialog about their projects with parents and other teachers
- To foster the connection between home, school and community.