The Third Teacher Project

“In the 1940s, pioneering Italian teacher and psychologist Loris Malaguzzi founded the Reggio Emilia approach to learning on the premises that children develop through interactions, first with the adults in their lives – parents and teachers – then with their peers, and ultimately with the environment around them. Environment, said Malaguzzi, is the third teacher.” -OWP/P Architects et al. 2012

Agenda• Project Background• Identifying Best Practice• Pilot expressions of Interest from Staff

“How might we create engaging learning spaces with all members of

the School community?”

What is our mission statement and values that the Third Teacher

Project stands for?

How do we look to support staff expressions of interest

in developing the environment for learning?

How will we celebrate and share transformations to

learning spaces with the SPS and wider community?

What kind of obstacles and road blocks lie ahead and how will we hope to

adapt, minimise and overcome them?

How can we encourage staff to co-create flexible,

humanised learning spaces that support

teaching and learning?

How can we ensure that any or all future developments

at SPS makes considerations for the environment for

learning?

How will we ensure students co-create

learning spaces with us, whether at a classroom or

larger project level?

How do we grow a culture, among staff and

students, of positive ownership of learning

spaces?

Third Teacher Project

Vision Statement

• To support, encourage and inspire staff and students to co-design engaging learning spaces, that will enable and enrich teaching and learning at St Paul’s.

Core Values

Promote co-creation, not only amongst staff and students, but all members of the School community, creating a sense of ownership, respect and responsibility

Utilise design principles to reimagine learning spaces that support 21st

Century pedagogies, whilst respecting the School’s history and architecture

Design and implement a process that can guide as well as support staff through reimagining learning spaces

Foster and nurture the philosophies of Reggio Emilia and The Third Teacher throughout the School

“How might we create engaging learning spaces with all members of the

School community?”

Third Teacher Project Team

Julie Bryce

Siobhan Gillespie

Cameron Howes

Des Hylton

Kathryn Kolb

Greg Lang

Maureen Noakes

Alana Reville

Cheryl Wegener

Neil White

Andrew Wilson

Developing the 3T SPS Principles

Best Practice

Research Prototyping

Reggio Emilia

Philosophy

Identifying Best Practice

What the Third Teacher Project Isn’t…

• “A project where is the driving force is monetary”

• “Bright colours and fancy furnishings”

• “Just about the physical space both inside and out”

• “A concept that only applies to early learning years or some learning areas”

• “A process by which the committee takes over and sorts the learning space for the teacher/s”

Calling for expressions of interest from staff

3T Principles @SPS

https://spsthirdteacherproject.wikispaces.com/What+is+the+Third+Teacher+Project%3F

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