Visible Learners
A progressive, research-based approach for making learning visible
Based on the Reggio Emilia approach to learning, Visible Learners highlights learning through interpreting objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students' learning evident to teachers. Visible classrooms are committed to five key principles: that learning is purposeful, social, emotional, empowering, and representational. The book includes visual essays, key practices, classroom and examples.
Based on the Reggio Emilia approach to learning, Visible Learners highlights learning through interpreting objects and artifacts, group learning, and documentation to make students' learning evident to teachers. Visible classrooms are committed to five key principles: that learning is purposeful, social, emotional, empowering, and representational. The book includes visual essays, key practices, classroom and examples.
- Show how to make learning happen in relation to others, spark emotional connections, give students power over their learning, and express ideas in multiple ways
- Illustrate Reggio-inspired principles and approaches via quotes, photos, student and teacher reflections, and examples of student work
- Offer a new way to enhance learning using progressive, research-based practices for increasing collaboration and critical thinking in and outside the classroom
Making Teaching Visible: Documenting Individual and Group Learning as Professional Development
How
can careful consideration of groups at work enhance the learning of
preschool, elementary, and middle school students and their teachers?
Building on research conducted with educators from the Municipal
Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy,
researchers from Project Zero collaborated with Pre-kindergarten to
grade 8 teachers in Massachusetts to examine how ideas developed in
Italian preschools could enhance preschool, elementary, and
middle-school education in the United States. Making Teaching Visible
includes the stories of what the teachers learned through documentation
and provides a framework for considering how documentation of individual
and group learning can serve as professional development. Because it
also contains thoughts on how to support this type of professional
development, it provides a valuable tool for making classrooms and
schools more powerful learning environments.
Making Learning
Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners
In this richly-illustrated book-the culmination of a two-tear research collaboration-teachers and 'pedagogistas' from Reggio Emilia and researchers from Project Zero illuminate ways in which documentation can foster both individual and group learning, creating a relationship between them. They identify methods and processes that will enable educators to reflect not only on the learning process of children but also on those of adults.
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