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Empowering Children's Potential


Ready to transform your teaching and create a child-led learning environment? Join early years and primary education expert, Susana Monteiro, a certified Reggio educator and Forest School leader with over 20 years of experience in this course to explore the core principles of the Reggio Emilia approach. You will learn about 10 practical strategies you can use within your practice to help see children as capable, design inspiring environments, utilise documentation effectively, foster collaboration, embrace emergent curriculum, involve families, and cultivate flexibility and reflection. Gain insight into actionable steps and a free resource to begin your Reggio-inspired journey to create a more meaningful and engaging learning experience for your students.
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Susana Monteiro

1.5 Hours

Online Course

How Does This Course Relate to the Early Learning Framework Outcomes?

Outcome 1 Children has a strong sense of identity

1.1 Children feel safe, secure and supported.
1.2 Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and agency.
1.3 Children develop knowledgeable, confident self-identities and a positive sense of self-worth.
1.4 Children learn to interact in relation to others with care, empathy and respect.

Outcome 3 Children have a strong sense of wellbeing

 3.1 Children become strong in their social, emotional and mental.

Outcome 4 Children are confident and involved learners

4.1 Children develop a growth mindset and learning dispositions such as curiosity, cooperation, confidence, creativity, commitment, enthusiasm, persistence, imagination and reflexivity.
4.2 Children develop a range of learning and thinking skills and processes such as problem solving, inquiry, experimentation, hypothesising, researching and investigating.
4.3 Children transfer and adapt what they have learned from one context to another.
4.4 Children resource their own learning through connecting with people, place, technologies and natural and processed materials.

How Does This Course Relate to the Professional Standards for Teachers?

1.1 Know students and how they learn.
1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
3.1 Establish challenging learning goals.
3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning.
3.3 Use teaching strategies.
3.4 Select and use resources.
3.5 Use effective classroom communication.
3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs.
3.7 Engage parents/carers in the educative process.
6.1 Engage in professional learning and improve practice.
7.1 Meet professional ethics and responsibilities.
7.4 Engage with and within the community.

Course Outline

Susana Monteiro

As an advocate and strategist in early years education, Susana is deeply committed to revolutionising how we approach learning. Her mission is to create innovative, child-centric environments where curiosity and creativity can flourish. By developing the Rise Up framework, Susana's had the privilege of guiding educators and schools towards embracing child-led, project-based, and enquiry-based methodologies that truly put children at the heart of education.
Having navigated the limitations of traditional educational models, she's empowered hundreds of teachers to prioritise the unique needs of each child, fostering environments where learning is driven by the child's innate curiosity. Susana is passionate about building inclusive, community-focused classrooms that celebrate diversity and nurture the potential in every student. Together, we can inspire excellence in education and make a lasting impact on the lives of children. 
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