Beautiful posts Bath! ...going on from what you said, the role of the teacher is the facilitator in Reggio Emilia, essentially we are a resource for the child. There are no time constraints in this approach to learning. Documenting the child's learning and experience in Reggio allows for the documenting of their learning journey. Where, in time, a child (and parent/teacher/community) will be able to clearly see the evolution of their thoughts, experiences, learning (where there is no need for children with different abilities to be compared to one another).

The history behind the Reggio Emilia approach (just have a google) is a very touching, driven one which may help readers to understand why things are done this way.