For Your Binder
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
Handprint Turkeys, STEP ASIDE! Embracing process art in early childhood programs
Originally entitled, BEYOND PINTEREST! Amen! # art # creativity # teaching # play # 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
Creative Art With Young Children
It's the process NOT the product! Stop with the craptivities already!!! # handouts # art # creativity # teaching
Missed the workshop? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! # oldschool
Ooey Gooey® Squishy Plop! Sensory Play for Every Day!
This is the one that started it all! This handout is not only full of art, science & sensory recipes and activity ideas, it's got the words to tell the wolves for you too! You know, the folks who barge in and want to know what everyone is learning and what standard you are meeting!! # handouts # play # sensory # science # DAP # art # teaching
Need more ideas? Lisa has 3 other activity focused books!
Missed the workshop? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! # oldschool
Rethinking the Colorful Kindergarten Classroom
Are the walls influencing learning? # environment # teaching # learning # art # creativity
The Importance of Art to the Development of the Whole Child
From the opening, "art is an essential experience for children but it is one that is often hijacked by adults..." YES YES YES! and, I'd add, not only hijacked, but then folded, spindled and mutilated into a craptivity that does nothing for a child's developing creativity! This one is essential for the # create section of your binder! # art # process # creativity
Learning to Write and Draw
For very young children, art and early writing skills are one and the same. But this changes over time! This article provides an easy to read overview of the early stages of writing and scribbling. It also provides user friendly trips on how to encourage creativity while at the same time assisting children in learning that words are powerful and have meaning! # reading # writing # DAP # scribbling # creativity # teaching # learning
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
Setting up a Process-Oriented Classroom: Learning from the Journey in a "Yes-Environment"
Getting closer to YES! # teaching # learning # art # creativity # play
Analyzing Children's Art
This link provides two excerpts from Rhoda Kellogg's book, Analyzing Children's Art as well as six related resources, also by Kellogg. # art # creativity # scribbling
Why CUTE is still a four letter word (a summary)
Why cute is still a four-letter word:
1) cute activities insult children's intellects
2) cute activities mistake doing with learning
3) cute activities often miseducate
4) cute activities undermine professionalism
5) cute activities frequently undermine educational equity
Instead:
1) pose real questions
2) ally with children: believe in them, strive to understand, identify with them
3) share responsibility: wonder together, set high expectations, help children in their choice making
A summary of the Editorial: On Behalf of Children, by Mary Renck Jalongo, from Early Childhood Education Journal, Vol 24, No. 2, 1996, page 67.
You can also watch this more recent video of the same title!
