For Your Binder
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
Stop Trying to Make Kids “Ready” for Kindergarten
Another opportunity to (re)consider what we mean by readiness. #DAP #pushdown #play #teaching #learning
An assignment to rethink the idea of homework
If you're doing homework you aren't riding your bike, not reading for pleasure - and those things are just as important! #homework #teaching #learning #play
When Children Are Not Read to at Home: The Million Word Gap
Conclusion? Home-based shared book reading represents an important resource for closing the word gap. This is a link to the study. #parenting #teaching #learning #books #stories #DAP #reading
Manifesto!
Here is the initial child centered manifesto that appeared on my original website! And guess what?!!? It is all still true! Only thing different is that now I have a whole book about it, not just a webpage!
#teaching #learning #DAP #posterity #musings
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
Learning Trajectories in Early Mathematics – Sequences of Acquisition and Teaching
We are moving towards understanding - not moving through curriculum! #math #DAP #teaching #learning
Building Forts and Minds: The Importance of Child Built Space
In these secret places, children develop and control environments of their own and enjoy freedom from the rules of the adult world. #dens #forts #outside #environments #play #parenting #teaching #learning
Link between ADHD, academic expectations identified by researchers
In the United States, we’ve decided that increasing academic demands on young children is a good thing. What we haven’t considered, are the potential negative effects. #DAP #movement #teaching #learning #pushdown
Facing the Screen Dilemma: Young children, technology and early education
This is a fantastic resource for parents and teachers alike. This must-read includes recommendations about screen based tech in early childhood settings as well as a list of suggested readings. #DAP #play #screens #technology #teaching #learning #parenting
Students Who Lose Recess Are the Ones Who Need It Most
Despite evidence that play and social interactions are crucial to cognitive development, schools continue to take recess away. #recess #teaching #learning #outside #movement #DAP #pushdown
The Benefits of Mixed-Age Grouping
A nice overview of Lilian Katz' book, The Case for Mixed-Age Grouping in Early Education, 1990, if you have not yet read it! #DAP #learning #teaching #mixedages
