Reggio Emilia Brochure

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What we have to offer you and your child: We offer a safe, comfortable, and enjoyable learning environment, for young children. In our program we strive to engage your child as their own individual, while learning with other children of younger and older ages, while getting the community and parents engaged in the learning process as well. We want to pull the inner uniqueness out of them. Who We Are About Us At NAREA, we base our efforts on the fundamental values and principles of the Reggio Emilia approach, and endeavor to offer unique experiences for deepening awareness and supporting ongoing connection among members. We believe, as Malaguzzi did, that intelligent children deserve intelligent teachers, and through knowing children well, we can learn more about our roles as adults in children’s lives. Contact Us Phone: 501 -968-6493 Email: [email protected] NORTH AMERICAN REGGIO EMILIA ALLIANCE Jo Ann Williams, Child Development, Inc. PO Box 2110 Russellville, AR 72801 NORTH AMERICAN REGGIO EMILIA ALLIANCE

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The Brochure for Reggio Emilia

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What we have to offer you and your child:

We offer a safe, comfortable, and enjoyable learning environment, for young children. In our program we strive to engage your child as their own individual, while learning with other children of younger and older ages, while getting the community and parents engaged in the learning process as well. We want to pull the inner uniqueness out of them.

Who We Are

About UsAt NAREA, we base our efforts on the fundamental values and principles of the Reggio Emilia approach, and endeavor to offer unique experiences for deepening awareness and supporting ongoing connection among members. We believe, as Malaguzzi did, that intelligent children deserve intelligent teachers, and through knowing children well, we can learn more about our roles as adults in children’s lives.

Contact UsPhone: 501 -968-6493Email: [email protected]: http://www.reggioalliance.org/

NORTH AMERICAN REGGIO EMILIA ALLIANCEJo Ann Williams, ChildDevelopment, Inc.PO Box 2110Russellville, AR 72801

NORTH AMERICAN REGGIO EMILIA ALLIANCE

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Mission Statement It is our mission to defend and promote the potential of all children by providing them with developmentally appropriate and caring environment that supports children's emotional, social, cognitive and physical development, while responding to the needs of families. We are committed to establish a community where, children, parents, teachers and staff will be engaged in a challenging and joyful environment that encourages children to learn and grow confidently. With a child-initiated play and inquiry, we will be able to negotiate our curriculum on an on-going basis. We will learn from children through documentation (observations and extensive record keeping). The use of high-quality documentation of children's work will be displayed

The Reggio teacher is unique because she offers herself to the process of co-construction of knowledge, releasing the traditional roles of a teacher and opening doors to new possibilities. She starts with the use of the child’s own theories, promotes disequilibrium, and helps the child to think about their thinking to facilitate new learning.

The constructivist approach to early childhood education offers children the opportunity to construct knowledge through daily experiences and encounters with parents, teachers, peers, events, and objects in the world. Children develop theories, negotiate learning, and merge thoughts together, thereby building knowledge and understanding.

It is the right of all children to be part of a school community that respects them as competent individuals who are viewed as contributors to the process of learning. The educators of Reggio Emilia show us the possibilities of what can happen when we trust and respect the capabilities of children.

We believe that the Reggio Approach is successful because of its powerful image and deep respect for the culture of childhood, and for its strong belief that children, teachers, and parents all work together in the process of building knowledge.

Our program is designed to broaden children's intellectual horizons from a developmentally appropriate perspective. We will do so by: Providing a risk free, nurturing, and developmentally appropriate environment. Promoting children's emotional, social, cognitive and physical development. Providing children with meaningful learning experiences. Respecting each child's unique way of learning. Maintaining children, parents, teachers and staff constantly informed of children's learning through high quality observation, documentation and record keeping. Involving our staff in professional development on an ongoing basis. Encouraging parent participation in their children's learning process. Increasing independence by encouraging children to tackle and solve problems. Guiding the children as they learn through discovery. Strengthening inner

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to enhance their learning through constant observation and sharing

emotional control and growth through self-discipline. Highlighting children's cultural backgrounds and languages. Facilitating learning through a variety of media.

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1. Resources/References – where did you get your information?

i. http://static1.squarespace.com/static/51ed94d0e4b03bd18bdcc998/t/526c8eabe4b0f35a9f0216e3/1382846123076/

ExaminingtheReggioEmiliaApproach.pdf

ii. Beginnings and Beyond: Foundations in Early Childhood Education By: Ann Miles Gordon and Kathryn Williams Browne 9th Edition

iii. http://www.reggioemiliaelc.com.au/our_team.html

iv. http://www.reggiokids.com/the_reggio_approach.html

v. http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Reggio_Emilia/

vi. http://reggioalliance.org/

vii. http://www.thejoyoflearning.com/aboutus.html