For Your Binder
Nurturing Creativity: Preparing young children for the challenges ahead
Creative thinking is critical for progress and for survival. How is it fostered? #art #creativity #play #teaching #resilience #DAP
What are schema and why should you care?
Schema are pattens of repeatable behavior often seen in young children! How are we facilitating them? #schema #play #movement
The Power of Play: A research summary on play and learning
This is an impressive overview of the research collected for the Minnesota Children's Museum in 2012. Not surprisingly, White's closing comment implies that while play is under siege, we must not forget that it is play that sets the stage for a strong foundation. #play #teaching #learning #DAP #theorists
Has Direct Instruction Banished Exploration? Not So Fast!
I'll take Door #2 please, any day every day and all day! #play #teaching #learning
Fairplay: Childhood Beyond Brands
Fairplay (formerly Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood) is an independent voice standing up for what kids and families really need. Fairplay is committed to creating a world where kids can be kids, free from the false promises of marketers and the manipulations of Big Tech. There are tons of resources for you here via this link. #play #DAP #parenting #screens #technology
Why kids should go barefoot more (and probably adults, too)
Our feet were healthier before we started wearing shoes! #play #risk #outside #movement
On the Importance of Fairy Tales: Should we continue to read these frightening stories to our children?
This remains my go-to rationale as to why my forever answer to this ongoing question will be a resounding and unyielding, YES. #fairytales #stories #reading #books
Best Play: What play provision should do for children
This is a valuable collaborative resource created by The National Playing Fields Association, PLAYLINK, The Children's Play Council, Play Wales, Play Scotland, Sutcliffe Play & Playboard Northern Ireland. At it's core is a shared belief that children need to play and as such, need environments that are suitable for them to do so. #play #playwork #learning #teaching #outside
Physical Activity Opportunities in US Early Child Care Programs
Published in Pediatrics in June 2022 this link will bring you to the abstract which, although not the full paper, provides enough data to remind us that young children are still not moving around enough. #play #movement #outside #recess #DAP #environment
Education’s Rotten Apples
The bad stuff has to go away for the good stuff to work. #DAP #teaching #learning
This is Play
Playing is a paradoxical form of communication: the dog approaches you; he puts his teeth on your arm but he is also wagging his tail. You let him do this because you know the dog is playing. How do you know this? #play
Consider the Walls
A classroom environment is a public statement about the educational values of the program AND the teacher. What does your say? #environment #art #create #teaching #learning
