For Your Binder
What does the Tennessee pre-K study really tell us about public preschool programs?
More commentary on the Vanderbilt Study and how it will impact ECE programs moving forward. #play #DAP #teaching #learning #Tennessee
The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds
This was the first American Academy of Pediatrics article (well, that caught everyone's attention anyway) that mentioned the importance of play. 11 years later they released another statement but ramped up the language saying that play was crucial to a child's healthy development. I often wonder if they sat around saying to each other, really? we gotta say this again? #DAP #play #parenting #teaching #learning
No Time for Napping in Today's Kindergarten
It's only October, but already Nicky is exhibiting symptoms of student ennui. The other day, when his mother asked him the best thing about school, he said lunch. Most boring? Art history. Sound typical? Perhaps. Except Nicky isn't a moody adolescent - Nicky is only 5. #pushdown #DAP #play #teaching #learning
Cut Out the Pre-Cuts: The trouble with themes in early childhood education
It's time to draw the line in the sand! #DAP #play #themes #art #creativity #learning #teaching
Moving up the Grades: Relationship between Preschool Model and Later School Success
Children's later school success appears to have been enhanced by more active, child-initiated early learning experiences. This link will let you access the full article; and it's a good one! #play #DAP #teaching #learning #pushdown
Human Nature of Teaching II: How hunter-gatherers taught without coercion.
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
