Reggio Inspired Approach and Application in an ECE Program

In this workshop we will explore how we can embrace Reggio inspired practices in our program and create an environment for children to express their ideas in a hundred languages.  We will discuss the history of Reggio programs, image of the child and the role of the educator. This workshop will also help educators to explore various ways to promote the creativity in young children and co-construct knowledge together. We will also discuss the importance of relationships with materials and how to promote inquiry and investigation in the classroom.

Living Inquiries:  

• Well-being and belonging.
• Engagement with others, materials and the world.
• Identities, social responsibility, and diversity.

Pathways: 

• Joy in relationships with people, place, materials and ideas
• Multiple modes of communication
• Interrelationship of humans and their common worlds
• Individual differences.

Suitable for students, novice, intermediate and experienced early learning child care professionals working with children of all ages, from infant/toddlers to school age children, including children with extra support needs.

Facilitator(s): Pooja Kalsi

Pooja has a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education from the State University of New York. She has 25 years of experience in the Early childhood field as a teacher, facilitator, supervisor, director and is an experienced instructor. She is very passionate about finding ways to promote children’s creativity and expression of discovery and make it visible by documentation. She currently teaches at Langara College in the ECE department. She is a mother of two and believes that she continues to learn from the world around her.

Register here: Reggio Inspired Approach and Application in an ECE Program (4810-8100) :: Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre