Essay On The Reggio Emilia Approach

This video is about different direct instructional approaches when teaching children. Specifically teaching children to read. For example, in one approach children read aloud with the class and individually with the teacher. When the children are reading with the teacher they read a set paragraph and time it, and see how many errors they have, and each time they read the paragraph they try and improve and do better than the last time. The children don 't seem to worry about other children 's errors, they focus on improving themselves. In another approach the children listen to the teacher 's signals and say and spell the words she is instructing them to say as a group.

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The Reggio Emilia approach is a new way to teach that comes from the old world. In this approach the focus is on the cognitive development, because children from birth are trying to create explanations for things. The school tries to focus not on sec curriculum but the children and how they learn. Very young children who go through the Reggio approach are able to solve very complex problems that normally couldn 't be solved at that age. Art is a large part of the focus in the Reggio approach. Art is what is believed to wire the brain for life in young children, so focusing on art will improve all other aspects in the child’s learning abilities. Reggio does not focus on trying to give children answers, it teaches them to find the answers

The focus of the Waldorf approach is the understanding of the human being through the work of Rudolf Steiner. This approach focuses on the fine motor skills that are being developed during the early stages of children 's lives. This approach also takes into consideration each child and how he/she learns, this helps the children develop because the curriculum is never overwhelming because it is tailored to them. Beauty is also a main focus in the Waldorf approach. The children learn in beautiful classrooms on beautiful school grounds, they learn things like calligraphy and spend time on each project. Physical activity is also important in this approach. It helps the children be successful in sports because the way they were taught is to focus on one thing at a time. That helps in sports as well as