For Your Binder
Improve Your Vocabulary With the “Wheel of Feelings”
I still believe it all comes back to either Love or Fear (meaning anything other than "love" has it's origin in "fear") but this might assist as we identify how fear might be manifesting. #DAP #teaching #learning
Does early reading instruction help reading in the long-term? A review of empirical evidence
In a nutshell - nope. Read it anyway and get the details! #DAP #teaching #learning #reading #play
Distinctions between Academic and Intellectual Goals in Early Childhood Education
A classic. #DAP #teaching #learning
Fairy Tales and Psychological Life Patterns
You'll note there is no date or author credit in the article you will access via this link, however, a little bit of digging leads me to believe that the article you'll access is either based on, or is a translation (from French) of, Fairy Tales and Psychological Life Plans by Agnès Le Guernic, 2004. #fairytales #stories
The Double-edged Sword of Pedagogy: Instruction limits spontaneous exploration and discovery
How does teaching impact exploration and discovery??? #teaching #learning
A top researcher says it's time to rethink our entire approach to preschool
This is one of the many articles that came out in 2022 in response to what has simply become known as "The #Vanderbilt study. A quote from the article, "We might actually get better results, she says, from simply letting little children play." #play #DAP #teaching #learning #Tennessee
Play Therapy Glossary of Terms
Words Matter! In any profession, having shared definitions of industry speak assists in communication and understanding. #playtherapy #teaching #learning
The Defining Characteristics of Play
Most of this essay is about defining the characteristics of play, but before listing them, author Peter Gray offers three general points that are worth keeping in mind. #play #teaching #learning
Sorry, There’s No Easy Toolkit for Social-Emotional Learning. But It’s Worth the Work
What are we waiting for? Sometimes I think we lost our faith in play. #DAP #learning #teaching
The Benefits of Mixed-Age Grouping
A nice overview of Lilian Katz' book, The Case for Mixed-Age Grouping in Early Education, 1990, if you have not yet read it! #DAP #learning #teaching #mixedages
Building Blocks of Math Skills: The Many Ways Block Building Supports Young Children’s Discovery of Early Math Concepts
Unit blocks have been around for over 100 years! Why is their potential still so often underestimated?? #math #play #blocks #DAP #learning #teaching
On children who “don’t know how to play”
When we think we meet children who “don’t know how to play”, is our assessment accurate? Is play a skill or an instinct? Or both? #play #playwork #teaching #learning
