what is reggio-InspireD documentation?

A central feature of the Reggio Emilia approach is extensive documentation through observation, reflection, and analysis by teachers of children’s development and behavior. Documentation records the experiences of children in the classroom. It makes children’s learning visible and encourages them to become central to their own learning. Documenting children’s learning processes within a learning group helps to make learning evident and shapes the learning that takes place. The information can be used for reflection by teachers and children to extend and enhance learning and to explain the steps and details of a long-term project or investigation. Long-term projects are focused on collaborations between children and teachers, and teachers’ reflections on their own practice.

Teaching Tools

What does it look like to embrace and support ‘documentation’ with your children in a Reggio classroom? There are specific pedagogical tools that can support this idea! We go more in-depth with these ideas and more in our Reggio-Inspired Teacher Playbook and Reggio Courses.