For Your Binder
The Power of Play: A research summary on play and learning
This is an impressive overview of the research collected for the Minnesota Children's Museum in 2012. Not surprisingly, White's closing comment implies that while play is under siege, we must not forget that it is play that sets the stage for a strong foundation. #play #teaching #learning #DAP #theorists
How Creativity Flourishes Through Play & Why It Matters
I've included this resource mainly for the image you'll see when you click the link (although it's not an off-base blog post by any means!) I wanted you to see Mitch Resnick's Creative Learning Spiral without (full disclosure: forgive me) all of the MIT tech speak, including descriptions of the technologies he's created, that usually fill the articles that contain the image. I love this image. I also believe when children are playing they tap into this cycle of creativity without needing to scratch any crickets. #play #DAP #creativity
Why kids build forts
Children all over the world organize these “special places.” #dens #forts #nature #outside #play
The Top 10 Benefits of Play! Play increases creativity, productivity, health, and wellness.
Play is a state of mind, but it is also a state of body, emotion, and spirit. #play #teaching #learning #creativity
Implicit bias: The problem and how to interrupt it. Plus, the beads test
It's not just what is said, it is what is unsaid. Maybe conduct the bead test at your next staff meeting?!? #implicitbias #teaching
Mixed-Age Preschools?
In this blog post Jarrod answers a question about mixed age groupings. #DAP #learning #teaching #mixedages
Why CUTE is still a four letter word (a summary)
Why cute is still a four-letter word:
1) cute activities insult children's intellects
2) cute activities mistake doing with learning
3) cute activities often miseducate
4) cute activities undermine professionalism
5) cute activities frequently undermine educational equity
Instead:
1) pose real questions
2) ally with children: believe in them, strive to understand, identify with them
3) share responsibility: wonder together, set high expectations, help children in their choice making
A summary of the Editorial: On Behalf of Children, by Mary Renck Jalongo, from Early Childhood Education Journal, Vol 24, No. 2, 1996, page 67.
You can also watch this more recent video of the same title!
#art #creativity #DAP #teaching #learning
The Impact of Rough and Tumble Play
This is a brief - yet rich - overview of a few benefits of rough & tumble play! #play #powerplaying #DAP
Learning Trajectories in Early Mathematics – Sequences of Acquisition and Teaching
We are moving towards understanding - not moving through curriculum! #math #DAP #teaching #learning
Improve Your Vocabulary With the “Wheel of Feelings”
I still believe it all comes back to either Love or Fear (meaning anything other than "love" has it's origin in "fear") but this might assist as we identify how fear might be manifesting. #DAP #teaching #learning
Shopping On the Side of the Road
I bet many of you have provided "forever homes" to tires, cable spools, milk crates and other items worthy of "rescue" from the side of the road! #looseparts #teaching #play
Why can't we get beyond quality?
What's the "problem with quality" and why can't we get beyond it? #teaching
