Professional Learning
First Steps with Materials
Unlocking ReMida
Explorations with Reclaimed Materials
Format: 60-80 minute session, theory and hands-on activities
Ideal for: Early Childhood Educators, (ECTs), OSHC Educators, Foundation to Year 2 Primary Teachers, and Center Directors looking to refresh their physical spaces and educational programs.
New to ReMida materials? Discover how to confidently integrate reclaimed non-traditional resources into your classroom, OSHC program, library, or community setting. This hands-on introductory workshop covers material safety, storage setup, and age-appropriate play strategies to kickstart your loose-parts journey.
Outline
Transform your educational practice from teacher-directed activities to authentic, child-led discovery. Inspired by Loris Malaguzzi’s vision of the "100 Languages of Children," this immersive Professional Learning session explores how open-ended industrial offcuts and reclaimed materials can unlock creative problem-solving, schema development, and deep play in early childhood and lower primary settings. Moving past single-use plastic toys and pre-cut craft kits, you’ll learn how to transform non-traditional materials—like smooth acrylics, industrial rubber gaskets, and flexible wire mesh—into rich educational provocations that drive inquiry.
ADVANCED PEDAGOGY
The Atelierista's Toolkit
Advanced Pedagogical Artistry & Material Inquiry
Format: 90 minute session, theory and hands-on activities
Ideal for: Experienced Early Childhood Educators, Early Childhood Teachers (ECTs), Room Leaders, Atelieristas, Educational Leaders, and Center Directors.
Elevate your early learning program beyond basic craft and everyday sensory play. Designed for experienced educators, ECTs, and Atelieristas, this hands-on masterclass explores advanced light and shadow play, botanical & industrial medium integration, and sophisticated provocation design using ReMida’s rarest industrial offcuts.
Outline
In the Reggio Emilia tradition, the Atelierista is an educator with a deep understanding of artistic mediums, material properties, and visual research. They don't just supply materials; they curate complex, multi-layered environments that provoke deep theoretical thinking in young children. The Atelierista's Toolkit is a premium, hands-on masterclass designed for experienced early childhood educators, Room Leaders, and Educational Leaders seeking to refine their aesthetic and pedagogical practice. In this immersive 3-hour masterclass, you will work with specialized industrial mediums—such as optical-grade acrylics, semi-translucent textiles, metallic meshes, and precision geometric offcuts—to design advanced, multi-sensory provocations that invite long-term project research.
Early Years
The 101st Language
Loose Parts, Inquiry & Reggio in Action
Format: 60-80 minute session, theory and hands-on activities
Ideal for: Early Childhood Educators, (ECTs), OSHC Educators, Foundation to Year 2 Primary Teachers, and Center Directors looking to refresh their physical spaces and educational programs.
Discover the power of open-ended, child-led inquiry. Grounded in the Reggio Emilia philosophy and mapped directly to EYLF v2.0, this hands-on workshop equips educators with practical strategies to design inspiring environments, facilitate deep schema play, and ask questions that unlock rich critical thinking using reclaimed materials.
Outline
Transform your educational practice from teacher-directed activities to authentic, child-led discovery. Inspired by Loris Malaguzzi’s vision of the "100 Languages of Children," this immersive Professional Learning session explores how open-ended industrial offcuts and reclaimed materials can unlock creative problem-solving, schema development, and deep play in early childhood and lower primary settings. Moving past single-use plastic toys and pre-cut craft kits, you’ll learn how to transform non-traditional materials—like smooth acrylics, industrial rubber gaskets, and flexible wire mesh—into rich educational provocations that drive inquiry.
Environment as the Third Teacher
Designing Inspiring Learning Spaces
Format: 80 minute session, theory and hands-on activities
Ideal for: Center Directors, Room Leaders, Early Childhood Teachers (ECTs), Lower Primary Coordinators, and NQS Quality Improvement Officers.
Transform your rooms into engaging and rich learning environments. Discover spatial design principles that reduce behavioural dysregulation, lower your resource budget, and meet NQS Quality Area 3 standards using curated reclaimed materials instead of high-cost commercial catalogs.
Outline
In the Reggio Emilia approach, space is never neutral: the physical environment acts as the "Third Teacher," continuously shaping behavior, focus, and creative thinking. Designed specifically for Center Directors, Room Leaders, and Educational Leaders, this practical professional learning session reveals how to transition away from cluttered, over-stimulated rooms filled with generic plastic tubs into beautifully curated, atelier-style spaces that invite self-directed exploration.
Primary and Secondary
Tactile STEM: Engineering & Physics with Reclaimed Materials
Learning beyond templates in STEM Activities
Format: 80 minute session, theory and hands-on activities
Ideal for: Primary and secondary school educators, specialist, deputies and EAs.
Discover how reclaimed industrial materials foster genuine engineering, physical science, and design thinking in K–6 classrooms. Mapped directly to the WA Curriculum, this hands-on workshop equips primary educators and STEM specialists to run high-impact, low-cost design challenges using zero specialised technology.
Outline
Move beyond pre-packaged plastic kits and unlock authentic engineering challenges using real-world materials. Commercial STEM kits often come with strict step-by-step instructions that limit critical thinking—when every student builds the exact same model, where is the innovation? Tactile STEM shows primary teachers and technology coordinators how to harness the unpredictable properties of industrial offcuts—such as flexible conduit, acrylic sheets, rubber gaskets, and non-standard geometric cutouts—to teach physical science and design technologies. In this highly interactive, hands-on workshop, you will step into the student’s shoes to complete real engineering builds, analyze physical material properties, and map design-thinking frameworks directly to WA Curriculum achievement standards.
Price Guides
The minimum booking fee is $300
5-10 Participants: $39.80 per person
11-15 Participants: $37.50 per person
16-30 Participants: $33.75 per person