Third Teacher Project Meeting 6.5 13.10.14

1. The Third Teacher Project
Agenda
• Project Background
• Identifying Best Practice
• Pilot expressions of Interest from Staff
“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

2. “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?

3. 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

4. “How might we create
engaging learning spaces
with all members of the
School community?”

5. 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

6. Developing the 3T
SPS Principles
Best Practice
Reggio Emilia
Philosophy
Research Prototyping

7. Identifying Best Practice

8. 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”

9. Calling for expressions of interest from
staff

10. 3T Principles @SPS
https://spsthirdteacherproject.wikispaces.com/What+is+the+Third+Teacher+Project%3F

11. Review of the Australian Curriculum