The Multiple Identities of the Reception Teacher by Cox Anna;Sykes Gillian; & Gillian Sykes

Author:Cox, Anna;Sykes, Gillian; & Gillian Sykes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473968189
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Published: 2019-11-22T20:23:24.067883+00:00

Figure 5.5 Our solar system

Point to ponder

Reflect on the five domains of development explored by Eleonora in Chapter 2 and look for signs of them being supported by the enabling environments illustrated in the vignettes in this chapter.

How long should artwork that has been created collaboratively remain on ‘display’? Consider the artwork we choose to hang in our own home and work spaces? Do we need to hurriedly remove it every six weeks because our focus has changed?

Conclusion

In concluding this chapter our hope is that you will be inspired to consider the individuality and uniqueness of your classroom space, whatever it may be and whatever stage it may be at. Our classroom spaces are places of wonder and they should reflect that privilege we feel and share in working with the unique individuals who make up our Reception class. Sources of inspiration should remain as that, not models to follow and reproduce. At the beginning of this chapter we identified Bruner who reminded us that school should be a place where children are invited to grow in mind, in sensibility and in belonging to a broader community; this is an aspiration we can all hold true. After all, consider the studio space that Joan Miró used in Majorca in comparison to that of Barbara Hepworth in St Ives, Cornwall. Both could be described as artistic geniuses, both needing entirely different spaces to be inspired but born out of the entirely different communities to which they belonged. There must have been similarities in the tools that they needed and to some extent the ways in which these may have been organised, but ultimately they needed spaces that fostered their creativity and as a result produced brilliance.

Point to ponder

If the hundred languages of expression exist, how does my environment support the communication of them? As an Early Years team do we share an understanding of what purpose our environment has? Can a staff meeting/team meeting be focused on the environment? (Use the list of quotes and ideas about the environment as a prompt for discussion.) Have I reminded myself that this is going to take time?

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