For Your Binder

The real reason children fidget - and what we can do about it
2018

This is a fantastic SPOT ON 7 minute Ted Talk video with Balanced and Barefoot author, Angela Hanscom, that concisely sums up WHY children need to move and HOW to go about making sure they do! But don't just watch it and agree with it, DO IT! #play #outside #movement #recess #risk #resilience #teaching #learning #nature

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The Vital Importance of a Strong Foundation: Why early learning matters
2014

In this Not Just Cute blog post, author Amanda Morgan taps into the house metaphor I use in my PLAY book and uses true-to-life language (they were building a home at the time) that invokes both literal and figurative images of the importance of a strong foundation! #play #DAP #teaching #learning #parenting 

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Benefits of Mixed-Age Groups in Early Child Education
2020

Life isn't always separated by age! There is magic in the mix!  #mixedages #DAP #learning #teaching

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Preschool education: Go big or go home? Tennessee study calls benefit of public preschool into question
2015

This article is in response to the release of some preliminary data for what is now known as the Vanderbilt Study (final results were released in early 2022).  Even then we could see what the results ended up actually indicating... that children need to #play 

#teaching #learning #DAP 

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Life After Nature Preschool: Exploring the long term effects of nature-based education
2018

Spoiler alert - nature based preschool is a positive thing! What we need now are researchers who can test this hypothesis in ways that look beyond test scores! #play #outside #teaching #learning #forestschools #nature

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Play Based Learning
2018

A resource from a college in Canada, this document provides a nice overview of play based learning, how to talk about it and facilitate it.  #play #teaching #learning

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5 Benefits of Mixed-Age Classrooms in Preschool
2019

A good overview of the benefits of The Mix, but the reason it's here is for the modified image of Vygotsky's ZPD, which I really liked! #teaching #learning #theorists #mixedages #DAP  

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Neuromyth No. 3: Visual, Auditory and Haptic Learners

This page is another rabbit hole of goodness, but I specifically linked you here to the info about neuromyth 3, aka: the learning styles because while I believe ECE to some degree has been influenced by all of the myths (myself included) I tend to still see and hear this one the most.  #teaching #learning

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Can the Right Kinds of Play Teach Self-Control?
2009

This article initially caught my eye because it contains one of my favorite words, but used it in a sentence with a phrase that gave me pause; self control? I used up two pens and a few highlighters keeping track of my reactions and comments to this one. Spoiler alert: verbiage verbiage verbiage! definitions definitions definitions!  It's rather dated, so take some of it with a few extra grains of salt. Also, is Eleanor Duckworth on your radar???   #play #DAP #teaching #learning

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The Right to Play
2019

Withholding recess for punishment is counterintuitive because the students who have trouble sitting still or being quiet are often the ones who would benefit the most from some free time to move around and regain their focus. #teaching #learning #recess #DAP #play #outside #movement #equity

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Strategies for Working with Mixed-Age Groups in Early Childhood Education
2018

Grouping children in narrow age cohorts is a fairly new practice! #mixedages #teaching #learning #DAP

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Human Nature of Teaching II: How hunter-gatherers taught without coercion.
2011

This is Part II in a series by Peter Gray.  In Part I Gray defined teaching  - here in Part II he examines teaching as it occurs, or occurred, in hunter-gatherer bands. #play #teaching #learning #DAP

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