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Early Years Education Foundations

Pedagogy & Theory
Lucy Mills
30 Mins

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Description

Reggio Emilia, an idea birthed in Italia and loved across the globe! "The Reggio Emilia Approach® is an educational philosophy based on the image of a child with strong potentialities for development and a subject with rights, who learns through the hundred languages belonging to all human beings, and grows in relations with others." In this class Lucy shares her favourite Reggio Emilia inspired activities, as well as, some tips and tricks how you can begin to embody the core concepts and ideas of the theory into your practice!

Skills you'll learn

Understanding the history and key principles of the Reggio Emilia approach, Exploring the concept of the environment as the "3rd teacher" and its importance in early childhood education, Learning how to incorporate loose parts and natural materials to support schematic play, Discovering creative ways to enhance playdough activities inspired by Reggio Emilia principles, Exploring the educational benefits of potion making activities and how to implement them in the classroom, Recognising the learning opportunities inherent in dance parties and incorporating them into early years settings, Exploring the use of lights to facilitate shadow investigations and promote curiosity in children

Lesson Content

1. What Is Reggio Emilia?

03:31

To kick things off in lesson 1, Lucy explores the the history of the Reggio Emilia approach and outlines the key principles behind the work of Loris Malaguzzi. To replicate the activities and ideas of the approach it is fundamental we understand the 'why' behind what we are doing!

2. Your Environment As The 3rd Teacher

03:52

Within this lesson Lucy explores the principle of your environment acting as the 3rd teacher. You'll explore ideas such as loose parts, utilising different art materials, the importance of the unique child and using your outside environments.

3. The Beauty Of Playdough

04:58

Who doesn't love playdough right? Why not find out some ways you can level up your playdough game within your setting and incorporate some of the ideas of Reggio Emilia in the process.

4. Sand & Loose Parts

04:41

In this lesson Lucy demonstrates how you can utilise loose parts and natural materials in your sand areas in order to incorporate Reggio Emilia principles, as well as, enable and support schematic play.

5. The Potion Making Class

03:53

We all love to pretend to be Witches and Wizards, right? In this lesson Lucy takes us on our very own potions lesson (unfortunately Professor Snape was unavailable) highlighting a few ways in which you can bring potion making into your settings and the learning benefits in doing so.

6. Time For a Boogie?

04:43

Who would have thought you can pull learning out of having a dance party? Well it turns out that there's lots of learning opportunities available in having a good old boogie! Time for some 70's classics anyone?

7. Light & Shadow Play

02:52

Not something you commonly see across Early Years settings, but in this class Lucy explores ways in which you can incorporate lights into your environment to allow the children to investigate shadows.

Meet your teacher

Though still relatively new to the world of early years I can honestly say it's become such a passion and I'm so happy I made the decision to join such a fulfilling and rewarding career. In the rush of our busy daily routines we can sometimes forget how amazing it is to see the young children under our care develop and mature throughout their early childhood. However, it is so important that we get the early childhood education right! That's why I joined the Early Years Network to help and inspire those just like me who work with young children everyday and want to make a difference.

'I wish we found this years ago!'

Providing our teams with meaningful learning and development is so hard to achieve in the early years world as it's nearly impossible to find the time to complete any sort of in-person training, and everything online is usually so expensive. But since finding The Early Years Network I'm able to set classes and courses to specific team members who can then watch them whenever fits. The girls have really fallen in love with it and its great to hear them all talking about child education, their own learning and what video's they've watched recently.

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Regardless if you are a standard user or a corporate user, your membership grants you access to our entire collection of Network Classes so you can begin your educational journey with us today without any limitations.

Are there quizzes on the platform?

The Early Years Network is all about meaningful learning that will transform the way you interact with and educate young children, not attempting to fill your head with information for the sake of a quick superficial quiz.

Are videos available in different languages?

Unfortunately for the time being videos are only available in English, but maybe one day...

Can I access The Early Years Network if I don't have an early years qualification?

YES! Content on The Early Years Network has been created for people interested in early years regardless of age, experience or academic background. We have something for everyone whether you are a childminder, parent/carer or an early years professional.

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Absolutely not, The Early Years Network has been optimised to be used on any device from your mobile phone to your tablet! Our flexible approach to learning embraces any and all types of device so you can learn anytime, anywhere!

Is The Early Network an accredited institution?

Whilst The Early Years Network is not an accredited body we do offer skill-based learning helping people transform knowledge and theory into meaningful change and improvement to their practice, environments and curriculum. Our Network Courses are created and hosted by leading experts within their academic fields, and upon completion of each course learners will be provided with a certificate to evidence their achievement.

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What is The Early Years Network?

We are a learning and development platform dedicated to the magical world of early years! We cover a wide range of topics, from child brain development to the importance of safeguarding and child wellbeing, through high-quality and immersive video content.

What subjects are covered on The Early Years Network?

We cover everything Early Years from ‘Cognitive Development Theories’, to the science behind play and even how to build the best rocket ship out of cardboard (you won't want to miss that video!). If you can think of a topic in early years we've probably got a video on it!

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