{"data":[{"ID":"58","Class":"EduconConversation","ContextClass":null,"ContextID":null,"Created":1287608387,"CreatorID":"1890","RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Lessons for K-12 from the Best Preschools in the World","Handle":"Lessons_for_K-12_from_the_Best_Preschools_in_the_World","ShortDescription":"The educational approach to the teaching of very young children, refined over five decades in the small Italian city of Reggio Emilia stands a source of inspiration for dramatically transforming the learning environment and experiences for teachers and students K-12 everywhere. There are special lessons for the appropriate constructive use of technology.\r\n\r\nThe boldness of the approach is a provocation for those who toss about terms such as reform and school change.","Description":"The Reggio Emilia Approach represents some of the deepest richest thinking on the establishment of learning environments, the role of the teacher as a researcher charged with uncovering the thinking of learners and authentic problem solving over the past fifty years. The presenter has studied the approach here and in Italy, will discuss how elements that make the Reggio Emilia Approach so special, share gorgeous books and videos from Italy and discuss how this approach needs to be culturally sensitive, but may inform the teaching of any discipline at any age.\r\n\r\nThe session will also share examples from American popular culture, including the DIY movement and how accomplished experts \"teach\" in a similar fashion as an invitation for discussion about our own teaching and learning.","Link":["http:\/\/stager.org"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"The presenter will share the subtle, beautiful, powerful ideas behind the Reggio Emilia Approach; discuss how it is not a formula; share videos, artifacts and books from and about Reggio Emilia; and present examples of Reggio-like teaching and learning from our popular culture.\r\n\r\nParticipants will explore the materials and discuss how powerful ideas of deliberate materials, teacher are researcher, beauty, children with special rights, the 100 languages of children, classrooms as 1,000 laboratories and meaningful project-based learning could be applied to make their teaching context more productive for learning.","Presenter":["Gary S. Stager Ph.D."],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Constructivist Consortium"],"PresenterEmail":["gary@stager.org"],"ScheduleSlot":"Session One","Room":"208","SubmitterID":"1890","AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":"educon3","Hashtag":null}],"conditions":{"Status":"Accepted","ScheduleSlot":"Session One","0":"MATCH (Title,Description,Presenter) AGAINST (\"Gary S. Stager Ph.D\")"}}