For Your Binder
Strategies for Working with Mixed-Age Groups in Early Childhood Education
Grouping children in narrow age cohorts is a fairly new practice! # mixedages # teaching # learning # DAP
Cute is a Four Letter Word (video)
In 1996 a fantastic editorial by Mary Renck Jalongo entitled, Why cute is STILL a four letter word appeared in Early Childhood Education Journal Vol 24 Issue 2. I have a few copies of copies of copies of old copies but can't find an online link. So until we scan it into the resources for you, watch this 17 minute TedTalk with Sarah Curtis! Cheers! # art # creativity # play # teaching # learning
Sensory-Motor Reading Readiness for School
Dr. Johnson has seen children diagnosed with AD/HD or learning disabilities “miraculously” improve when they are taken out of “academic” kindergartens or given an extra year in a developmental kindergarten that emphasizes movement, play, and the integration of their sensory-motor systems. # DAP # play # teaching # learning # movement # reading # writing
Top-Down and Bottom-Up Behaviors: Understanding the critical difference
When it feels like common sense and everyone should just "know it" (but they don't) it can be affirming to read about why it feels that way. Bottom-up behaviors are instinctual and unintentional. Top-down ones are deliberate and intentional. There is a difference. And how we approach them needs to be differentiated as well! # teaching # learning # relationships # specialed # expulsion # environment
Are Fairy Tales Still Useful to Children?
Couple things here - this is an old link and the form to fill out to access the interview is no longer secure - do what you will with that. Zipes' thoughts down towards the bottom of the page though are still very much worth the read. Then, if you are so inclined, search his name JACK ZIPES on YouTube... better carve out a couple days! It's a rabbit hole of amazingness that is worth falling into and you might just be a little sad when you decide to climb back out! # fairytales # stories # books # reading
The most important thing you can do with your kids? Play with them! says Dr. Bruce Perry
A timely reminder!!! # play # teaching # learning # parenting
Play Under Pressure: Surveying parents about children and the state of play
Highlights! Key findings! How to take action! # play # DAP # parenting
Please, "go outside and play"
Unfortunately, “going out to play” has gone the way of the dodo, the typewriter and the eight-track tape. # outside # play # parenting # risk # resilience
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Discovering the Importance of Play through Personal Histories and Brain Images
While having a play deprived childhood isn't going to turn you into a murderer, all of the inmates Brown interviewed had a play deprived childhood. # play # risk # resilience # teaching # learning # powerplaying # theorists
Principles of Early Childhood Education
Twelve important points that would still be relevant even if the copyright date was 1800! # play # teaching # learning # DAP
School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys: and efforts to re-engineer the young-male imagination are doomed to fail
Growing intolerance for boys' action-narrative-play choices may be undermining language development. # DAP # gender # teaching # learning # play # powerplaying
