October 2015
Inspire Creative Growth
The Bishop Strachan School, a leader in teacher research, project work and inquiry-based learning, is holding exciting workshops for educators seeking to embrace innovative practices for 21st century learning. These hands-on sessions delve into the art of engaging students in powerful conversation, and the process of creating collaborative and vibrant learning environments. (registration from 10:00 to 10:15am) View event flyer.
Find out more »November 2015
Inquiry and the Ontario Social Studies Curriculum
Unpack and understand the benefits and components of Inquiry-Based Learning through the lens of the revised 2013 Ontario Social Studies Curriculum. We will tour Richland Academy, and discuss possibilities for your own environments. Please bring ideas, plans, and questions to consider for your own context. A light lunch will be provided.
Find out more »December 2015
York University/Ontario Reggio Association Documentation Study Session
Documentation in any form or stage of development is most welcome at our sessions. It is a very kind act to share documentation to allow participants the opportunity to discuss and expand their understandings of thinking and learning while offering you support for your work. Please feel welcome to attend with or without documentation.
Find out more »January 2016
Documenting to Make Learning Visible
New to, or just getting started on documentation? Join us to unpack this essential principle of the Reggio Emilia philosophy. During the first session, we will consider the connection between documentation and learning; look at the tools of documentation; and consider effective ways for sharing documentation meaningfully within your classroom, school, and community. During the second session, bring your working documentation for review, guidance and revision. Price covers the cost of both sessions, however you must sign up for each,…
Find out more »York University/Ontario Reggio Association Documentation Study Session
Documentation in any form or stage of development is most welcome at our sessions. It is a very kind act to share documentation to allow participants the opportunity to discuss and expand their understandings of thinking and learning while offering you support for your work. Please feel welcome to attend with or without documentation.
Find out more »February 2016
Creating an Environment for Learning in the Early Years
Explore the Environment 'As A Third Teacher' and discover what design elements and materials influence a Reggio-inspired learning space. We will tour Richland Academy, and discuss possibilities for your own environments. Please bring ideas, plans, and questions to consider for your own context. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find out more »Inspire Creative Growth
The Bishop Strachan School, a leader in teacher research, project work and inquiry-based learning, is holding exciting workshops for educators seeking to embrace innovative practices for 21st century learning. These hands-on sessions delve into the art of engaging students in powerful conversation, and the process of creating collaborative and vibrant learning environments. (registration from 10:00 to 10:15am) View event flyer.
Find out more »York University/Ontario Reggio Association Documentation Study Session
Documentation in any form or stage of development is most welcome at our sessions. It is a very kind act to share documentation to allow participants the opportunity to discuss and expand their understandings of thinking and learning while offering you support for your work. Please feel welcome to attend with or without documentation.
Find out more »April 2016
York University/Ontario Reggio Association Documentation Study Session
Documentation in any form or stage of development is most welcome at our sessions. It is a very kind act to share documentation to allow participants the opportunity to discuss and expand their understandings of thinking and learning while offering you support for your work. Please feel welcome to attend with or without documentation. Please RSVP to attend. Powered by Eventbrite
Find out more »Documenting to Make Learning Visible
New to, or just getting started on documentation? Join us to unpack this essential principle of the Reggio Emilia philosophy. During the first session, we will consider the connection between documentation and learning; look at the tools of documentation; and consider effective ways for sharing documentation meaningfully within your classroom, school, and community. During the second session, bring your working documentation for review, guidance and revision. Price covers the cost of both sessions, however you must sign up for each,…
Find out more »Documentation as Relationship with Karyn Callaghan and Jason Avery
Part of the ECCDC’s Think, Feel, Act Series Documenting children’s investigations and relationships is now recognized as central to the practice of educators of young children. This is a disposition that requires cultivation. As we hone those skills, we will also have vibrant, authentic information from which we can make meaning, with many different questions in mind, inviting different perspectives – i.e. we can create documentation. In our time together, using examples of documentation created by Jason Avery, we will…
Find out more »The Power of Knowledge Building
Explore and experience the theory and application of knowledge building and the benefits it will have in any classroom and teaching practice, from Early Years to the Junior and Intermediate grades. This workshop will include a tour of Richland Academy. Light refreshments will be provided.
Find out more »Inspire Creative Growth
The Bishop Strachan School, a leader in teacher research, project work and inquiry-based learning, is holding exciting workshops for educators seeking to embrace innovative practices for 21st century learning. These hands-on sessions delve into the art of engaging students in powerful conversation, and the process of creating collaborative and vibrant learning environments. (registration from 10:00 to 10:15am) View event flyer.
Find out more »May 2016
Inspire Creative Growth
The Bishop Strachan School, a leader in teacher research, project work and inquiry-based learning, is holding exciting workshops for educators seeking to embrace innovative practices for 21st century learning. These hands-on sessions delve into the art of engaging students in powerful conversation, and the process of creating collaborative and vibrant learning environments. (registration from 10:00 to 10:15am) View event flyer.
Find out more »York University/Ontario Reggio Association Documentation Study Session
Documentation in any form or stage of development is most welcome at our sessions. It is a very kind act to share documentation to allow participants the opportunity to discuss and expand their understandings of thinking and learning while offering you support for your work. Please feel welcome to attend with or without documentation. Please RSVP to attend. Powered by Eventbrite
Find out more »June 2016
The Wonder of Learning – The Hundred Languages of Children
The traveling exhibition The Wonder of Learning is offered as a “democratic piazza” calling attention to the importance of education and schools as places for discussion and exchange. In continuity with the previous exhibition, The Hundred Languages of Children, the new exhibition also aims to reconfirm the values that underlie the educational philosophy of the Municipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia, and in particular to highlight the changes, innovations, and developments that have taken place. The exhibition speaks to all those involved in education as well as to all…
Find out more »Engaging Children, Families, and Educators in a Spiral of Learning: Embracing Openness and Uncertainty
NAREA Summer Conference In collaboration with Reggio Children and the Ontario Reggio Association, speakers from Reggio Emilia will present on the Summer Conference theme “Engaging Children, Families, and Educators in a Spiral of Learning: Embracing Openness and Uncertainty”. The conference begins at 9:00am and typically ends by 5:00pm each day. Lunch and light snacks will be provided. The schedule has not been finalized, but will include presentations from Reggio Emilia educators, atelier sessions, virtual school tours and an opportunity to…
Find out more »July 2016
The Image of the Child// L’image de l’enfant
In this session, we will engage in critical reflection on what it means to embrace a view of the child as competent, as an able communicator and collaborator, capable of complex thinking. After viewing a selection of panels in The Wonder of Learning exhibit, we will discuss how we might collaborate with colleagues and families to bring a higher level of coherence between our views and our practice, and elevate the view of the child in our own contexts. Avec…
Find out more »August 2016
Pedagogical Documentation: “Framework of Wonder” // La documentation pédagogique: “Le cadre de l’émerveillement
What is wonder? What does it mean to wonder? How might wonder be part of teaching and learning? What might a “Framework of Wonder” mean for thinking about documentation? In this workshop we will meet to think about our ideas of wonder and how these ideas might affect our thinking about documentation and our ideas of learning and teaching. We will visit “The Wonder of Learning” exhibit with our ideas of wonder in mind and then meet together to discuss…
Find out more »Emergent Curriculum in Full-Day Kindergarten and Early Learning Settings
The introductory session describes emergent curriculum and offers several experiential workshops that allow participants to grasp structural aspects that support emergent learning. The session focuses on inquiry-based, arts-based and play-based participatory structures that sustain rich, experiential classrooms in which children become highly self regulated and eager to learn. The image of children and educators is one of competence, resourcefulness, and intelligence. The image of learning is that learning occurs in relations and relationships: it is the study of connections that…
Find out more »September 2016
Materials as a form of expression// L’utilisation de matériaux : une forme d’expression Jason Avery & Sylvia Curtis-Norcross
As Human beings we are innately social and so it is a natural tendency to look for characters and their stories in art, but in the open minded and exploration driven world of young children their insights into materials themselves often carry their intention. Expanding our awareness and sensitivity to children's use of materials can give us new access to the complexities and multi disciplinary understanding of children's expressions. Through sharing documentation from our respective experiences we will be…
Find out more »Emergent Curriculum Certificate Session 3
Graphic Materials for Multiple Modes of Representation of Learning with Leslie Siegrist and Kerri Embrey Dates and Location: 9:00 am to 3:00 pm September 24: Havergal College 1451 Avenue Rd, Toronto, ON M5N 2H9 October 1: The Bishop Strachan School, 298 Lonsdale Rd, Toronto, ON M4V 1X2 October 15: The Bishop Strachan School, 298 Lonsdale Rd, Toronto, ON M4V 1X2 October 22: Havergal College, 1451 Avenue Rd, Toronto, ON M5N 2H9 You must be a member of The Ontario Reggio Association to register for this…
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