For Your Binder
Invitations and Provocations: Coming to Terms with Terms
What is the relationship between an invitation and provocation? Do we use the words interchangeably? Is there really a difference? Might invitations lead to provocations? In this article the author offers some food for thought as to how she uses these terms. #teaching #learning #environment
The Play-Friendly School Label: A handbook for schools
This document came on my radar while I was taking the Pop Up Adventure Play Playworker Development Course
I quickly realized that it serves as a functional "how-to" manual for anyone who not only says they want to be play based, but is really ready to put their money where their mouth is and make it happen. The document is from 2019 so I am not sure if the workshops and consulting piece they mention is still available, but it's a worthy read all the same. I read it three times and am still gleaning insight. #play #teaching #learning #environment
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
The influence of the number of toys in the environment on toddlers' play
It's only the abstract to the study, but the message is still clear: fewer toys leads to increased focus and more creative play. #play #toys #teaching #learning #environment
Being active in play environments: The key to children’s health and wellbeing
It's important to make sure neighborhoods have diverse environmental qualities that encourage children & caregivers to stay physically active, meet friends and connect with the natural environment. #play #outside #movement
Seeing Children do More with Less
Toes not toys! #play #DAP #looseparts #teaching #learning #environment
Mixed-Age Classrooms Provide Optimal Learning Environment
The nursery (pre)school should be an extension of the family outward rather than of the elementary school downward. #mixedages #DAP #learning #teaching
Four new tools for building your child-guidance skills
A little shameless plug here! In the summer of 2020 the Texas Child Care Quarterly published four book reviews and I was honored to see that my book, Lisa Murphy on... Being Child Centered was one of the ones they included! This link will take you to all four - mine is the last one. #teaching #learning #environment #press #play
Getting Pre-K Right: The Iceberg Model for Early Developmental Competencies
This article was written by the lead researcher in what is simply referred to now as "The #Vanderbilt Study" - in it she reminds us that greater focus on academics for three and four year olds is not the solution. Her metaphor of an iceberg is a powerful visual; the tip of the iceberg are things we can see (read: measure) like ABCs and 123s, but what is below the surface? What has actually made these other things visible? Curiosity, persistence, self-control... and when are those skills developed? When children #play !!!!! #Tennessee #DAP #teaching #learning #environment #pushdown
First Days of Preschool
The first days of preschool can be stressful for everyone. In this short but helpful article, Lillian Katz offers a few ideas that might assist both parents and teachers. #environment #learning #teaching #relationships #care
After 100 years of the Same Teaching Model It's Time to Throw Out the Playbook
It's time to change the direction of the arrow! #teaching #relationships #environment
Panoptic Playground: How Disneyland Functions as the Ultimate Disciplinary Environment
A while back - while falling down another rabbit hole in my effort to learn what "panopticon" meant (I heard it at a #playwork conference and didn't know what it meant) - I stumbled across quite a bit as to how theme parks, specifically the Disney ones, fall into the same category. #playground #play #panopticon
