For Your Binder
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
Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm Research reveals potential risks of academic preschools and kindergartens
Louder for the people in the back! #DAP #play #teaching #learning
The Defining Characteristics of Play
Most of this essay is about defining the characteristics of play, but before listing them, author Peter Gray offers three general points that are worth keeping in mind. #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
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
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
Why Preschool Shouldn't Be Like School
New research shows that teaching kids more and more, at ever younger ages, may backfire! #play #teaching #learning #pushdown
Learning Trajectories in Early Mathematics – Sequences of Acquisition and Teaching
We are moving towards understanding - not moving through curriculum! #math #DAP #teaching #learning
The Natural Environment for Children’s Self-Education: The Sudbury Valley School is in these ways like a hunter-gatherer band
Play and exploration requires enormous amounts of unscheduled time - time to do whatever one wants to do, without pressure, judgment, or intrusion from authority figures. #play #teaching #learning #mixedages
The Role Of Play in Promoting Children's Positive Approaches to Learning
How children learn is just as important as what they learn! #play #learning #teaching #DAP
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Multiage Classrooms in the Era of NCLB Accountability
How can we reap the benefits of The Mix when 8 out of 10 teachers report being opposed to differentiated instruction? #teaching #learning #mixedages
