For Your Binder

Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm Research reveals potential risks of academic preschools and kindergartens
2015

Louder for the people in the back!  #DAP #play #teaching #learning

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The Developmental Stages of Teachers
1995

Competence improves with experience and the knowledge and practice that comes with it! This is a link to the revised (1995) version of Katz' original paper; a link to the original paper from 1972 can be accessed here. #teaching #learning

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Circles Are For Squares! Making Time for Books and Stories!

The title has changed over the years but the message hasn't - why do we continue to interrupt engaged children to come to a meeting???  #books #stories #play #teaching #handouts

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What if Today Was Their Only Day?

If tomorrow was someone's first last and only day in your program.... what would they remember and how were you a part of that????  #handouts #teaching 

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Lisa Murphy on... PLAY

The findings consistently show that the foundation is what supports the house!  Want a huge academic mansion? Then make the foundation rock solid!  This is the handout that goes with the workshop that goes with the book of the same title! #play #DAP #pushdown #teaching #handouts

Missed the workshop? Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool  

The Human Nature of Teaching Part I: Ways of Teaching That We Share With Other Animals. What can we learn from animals by watching them teach?
2011

Part I in a series by Peter Gray.   He says his goal for the series is to examine teaching from the ground up. He starts here by defining teaching and presents evidence that teaching occurs in at least some non-human animals. An examination of teaching in other species may lead to insights that will be useful for understanding teaching in our species. #teaching #learning #DAP #play

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Why can't we get beyond quality?
2016

What's the "problem with quality" and why can't we get beyond it? #teaching

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Rethinking the Colorful Kindergarten Classroom
2014

Are the walls influencing learning? #environment #teaching #learning #art #creativity

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The Return of Play
2017

From the author: "I felt like a birdwatcher that had spotted a rare species."  How refreshing!  #play #teaching #learning #adventureplaygrounds #outside #nature #playwork #playgrounds #risk

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Creative Art With Young Children

It's the process NOT the product! Stop with the craptivities already!!! #handouts #art #creativity #teaching

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School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys: and efforts to re-engineer the young-male imagination are doomed to fail
2013

Growing intolerance for boys' action-narrative-play choices may be undermining language development.  #DAP #gender #teaching #learning #play #powerplaying

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I did it all by myself! Scaffolding to develop problem-solving and self-help skills in young children
2011

This articles explores the concept of scaffolding and offers a few strategies.  #theorists #DAP #teaching #learning

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