EP 44| The Third Teacher - Is Your Room Still Talking?
About this episode
Jodie Clarke discusses how the learning environment impacts children's education and provides practical strategies for educators to enhance their spaces.
🟢 Your learning environment is teaching children something right now. The question is whether you know what it's saying. If you set up your room at the start of the year and haven't made meaningful changes since, it might be telling children a story you didn't intend. In this episode, Jodie makes Loris Malaguzzi's concept of the "third teacher" genuinely practical… no theory, no philosophy, just specific things you can look at, change, and improve starting tomorrow morning. 🟢 What you'll walk away with: 🎧 A Five-Minute Room Audit you can run before the children arrive - including the Doorway Test and five reflective questions that cut through familiarity blindness 🎧 Three autumn environment refresh ideas you can set up this week with almost no budget (the nature basket swap, the cosy corner, and the light table revival) 🎧 A clear explanation of the difference between invitations and directions - and why it affects both children's learning and your documentation 🎧 Three specific AI prompts for brainstorming provocations, writing environment rationales for assessment, and helping parents design home learning spaces 🎧 A new way of seeing how environment design supports…
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Host: Jodie Clarke
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