For Your Binder
Guiding Principles of Emergent Early Childhood Education
Taking a cue from the bees! #DAP #play #teaching #learning
16 Outcomes for Early Education
A challenge: Start talking about the 16 Capabilities rather than academic readiness as the desired outcome for ECE programs. Can you imagine every child going to kindergarten having mastered these 16 things?!?! #DAP #play #learning #teaching #pushdown
Also, you are going to want to read more from the author, Tom Drummond and his fantastic work in ECE, so click here to access his full website!
Rough and Tumble Play
This is a link to a nice (yet brief) overview of the benefits of rough and tumble play. BONUS! There are some great resources listed at the end, including a few YouTube videos! #play #DAP #powerplaying
I did it all by myself! Scaffolding to develop problem-solving and self-help skills in young children
This articles explores the concept of scaffolding and offers a few strategies. #theorists #DAP #teaching #learning
New Research Ignites Debate on the 30 Million Word Gap
Too small of a sample? Racially biased? Data too old? #parenting #learning #teaching #DAP
The Play-Friendly School Label: A handbook for schools
This document came on my radar while I was taking the Pop Up Adventure Play Playworker Development Course
I quickly realized that it serves as a functional "how-to" manual for anyone who not only says they want to be play based, but is really ready to put their money where their mouth is and make it happen. The document is from 2019 so I am not sure if the workshops and consulting piece they mention is still available, but it's a worthy read all the same. I read it three times and am still gleaning insight. #play #teaching #learning #environment
Shindana Toys (a slide show)
Awhile back I participated in an online seminar about Shindana Toys sponsored by the Strong National Museum of Play. I took a few notes but recently I happened upon this online slideshow that pretty much highlights all the points made in the session and includes some good photographs; so I am including it here for you. #toys #equity #play
Leave Those Kids Alone: Childhood is more than merely a springboard to adulthood
Childhood should be a deep well, full of rich, individual perceptions and experience to which you can return for sustenance throughout life. #play
The Internet of Toys
Hmmmmm can we still trust those bears and dolls? #toys #play #technology
I work with kids. Here’s why they’re consumed with anxiety. It’s not social media.
Tension without intention. #teaching #learning #play #technology #resilience #pushdown
Teacher Memories: Support or Hindrance to Good Practice?
Are our elementary school memories influencing how we are doing early childhood even though (we know) many of those practices are not developmentally appropriate? #DAP #teaching #learning
Why kids deserve a preschool that lets them play
A push-down curriculum isn’t helping kids to get ahead, it’s simply ignoring the critical role of the foundation. #play #DAP #parenting #pushdown #teaching #learning
