Reply to Stay away from Reggio Inspired schools!!!

Forum Index » Preschool and Daycare Discussion

Reply to "Stay away from Reggio Inspired schools!!!"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't like Reggio. At a Jewish center I saw kids running around naked. After playing with spash water outside. 
They tell teachers to let the kids do whatever they want. Yeah, they do whatever they want. Theres kids with bad behavioral problems. There's no schedule, just play all day.
Ugh [/quote]

That is not Reggio. Reggio is child-led, but starting at 3 my kids were coached through a process to define the things they would work on. If they said they wanted to do mud play, a teacher would help them make a list of materials they need, think about what they wanted to achieve or learn, make a plan to clean up, etc. The teacher would help them execute the plan, take pictures, and document the execution. Afterwards they talk about how it went. Something like that would take a whole week or more. They would watch videos about mud and animals that like to play in mud. They might take a walk down at he hall and talk to the janitor about their clean up plan and get input.
They might have to go talk to the groundskeeper to learn where the hose was and get permission to make mud.

Instead of adults just setting up and cleaning up activities for them, they were hands-on involved in all aspects of choosing the activity, planning and cleaning up the activity. When my kids got to elementary and joined Odyssey of the Mind, the concept of planning a long term project and executing it with a minimal adult help as possible made total sense to them. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics