- Respond to your peer’s post. Review their chosen strategies and lessons and give an example of how they can use motivation in each lesson to inspire their students.
PEERS POST:
The first strategy I’m going to discuss is The Reggio Emilia Approach. The Reggio Emilia Approach is when teachers create the curriculum around children’s interests. “The adults observe the children, listen to them with respect, collaborate to help them make sense of their experiences, and provide them with opportunities to explore their interests by utilizing the project approach, the arts, and the immediate environment that is filled with interesting materials” (c). I would incorporate materials to encourage creativity, problem-solving work, experimentation, exploration, and open-ended play throughout the centers. The open environment will create flexibility which give the teachers the space to be more responsive to the individual needs of each child in the classroom, and the alternative style classroom is set up in a way to reflects the culture that the child living in” ( Goodwin University, 2020). This link gives more information about the Reggio Emilia Approach: https://www.edutopia.org/article/7-ideas-reggio-emilia-any-early-childhood-teacher-can-use (Links to an external site.)
The next strategy I’m going to discuss is Providing choice time. This is something I incorporate in my daily schedule. When children are given choices, they feel like that have control over what they can do. They learn how to make their own decisions. “Friedrich Froebel founded the first kindergarten, European American theorists have believed that when children can make meaningful choices about the way they spend their time, they are empowered and motivated to learn” (Kaiser & Sklar, 2017). Everyday children have the opportunity to choose what they would like to do after circle time. The choices are art area, library area, dramatic play area, block area, music area, science area, sensory table, and manipulatives. Materials are switch out depending on the theme we are doing. There is a limit to how many children are in each area, and the children can switch to another area that the choose when a opening become available. There are enough materials to meet the children needs. Not having enough materials can cause challenging behaviors and disorder in the classroom. Observing students as they play will give me the opportunity to observe and show me how they think and learn. My observations will help me to address their individual needs more effectively. Here is a link that discuss more about play based learning. https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-use-play-learning
-Shannon
References
Arrow, J. (2019). How To Use Play for Learning. https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-use-play-learning (Links to an external site.)
Goodwin University. (2020). A Look Inside the Reggio Emilia Classroom Environment. https://www.goodwin.edu/enews/reggio-emilia-classroom-environment/ (Links to an external site.)
Kaiser, B., & Sklar Rasminsky, J. (2017). Challenging behavior in young children: Understanding, preventing, and responding effectively (4th ed.). Retrieved from https://content.uagc.edu
