For Your Binder
Children's Places of Secrecy and Play: A Playworker's Guide to Dens and Forts
What are your childhood memories of dens and forts? Did you build them? Play in them? I was THRILLED when I found this resource online, especially when I saw that you can download the entire document, pictures and all!!! #playwork #dens #forts #adventureplaygrounds #playgrounds #outside #play
The Internet of Toys
Hmmmmm can we still trust those bears and dolls? #toys #play #technology
The Vital Role of Play in Early Childhood Education
This is a link to an essay which was published in a few books, including All Work and No Play... How Educational Reforms Are Harming Our Preschoolers, edited by Sharna Olfman. After reading this stand alone essay you might decide that you need the whole book. You might also start to wonder how many more essays and articles and books we need to write before folks believe us and the power of play! #play #DAP #pushdown #teaching #learning #theorists
Playground or panopticon?
The history of the playground is a story of control. Read more about it in this article and BONUS! There is an embedded link to their podcast episode (40 min) of the same title! #play #panopticon #playgrounds #outside
The Apple Demo
This handout will teach YOU how to do The Apple Demo with a group! Why is it important? It is a very very strong visual exercise that reinforces the importance of the real in early childhood environments - NOT dittos NOT worksh*ts NOT flashcards! Memorize the steps and then take your audience through the different ways children might experience an apple. This is a great activity to do with parents at back to school night! #handouts #DAP #teaching #learning #play #pushdown #parenting
Missed seeing Lisa demo this one? Maybe want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool
When the risk is worth it: The inclusion of children with disabilities in free risky play
We know the many benefits of risky play for young children - but are all children being afforded opportunities to engage in this kind of play? Disabled children tend to be over-protected and have their abilities underestimated. Additionally, "accessibility" is not in itself sufficient to ensure the quality of the play experience. #inclusion #equity #outside #movement #recess
Assessing and Scaffolding Make Believe Play
For your consideration, I offer a counter-comment to this article: How about instead of applying another adult-directed ACrYNoM we put back into early childhood programs the things the adults stole in the first place? I'll offer time, choice, play and mixed ages to get the conversation started... #mixedages #play #DAP #teaching #learning
Is play a privilege or a right? And what’s our responsibility? On the role of play for equity in early childhood education
Although the rest of the world has ratified Article 31 of the United Nations Rights of the Child which declares that play is the right of all children, the USA has yet to do so. This article rejects play as a privilege and instead supports it as a matter of equity. #play #equity #teaching
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
Creative metaphors of life experiences seen in play therapy
Metaphors allow the child to protect the self and project the experience onto another object which is much less threatening. #play #playtherapy #fairytales
The Importance of Play
From the Atlantic Monthly, March, 1987
The way a child wants to play is often very different from the way their parents want them to, the child however, knows best! #play #DAP #learning #teaching
What is Happening to Fine Motor Development?
To put it bluntly, Guddemi says that lacking fine motor skills is not "fine" in Kindergarten! #teaching #learning #DAP #play #pushdown #reading #writing
