For Your Binder

What are we waiting for?  Sometimes I think we lost our faith in play. #DAP #learning #teaching

This handbook provides a nice overview and introduction to Rhoda Kellogg, children's art and the stages of scribbling. There is another resource available here on my site that allows you to search the catalog of over 7000 archived scribbles.  #art #creativity #DAP #scribbling

Autonomy is defined as a form of voluntary action (read: choice), stemming from a person’s interest and with no external pressure. When teachers support autonomy, students improve their academic performance, are more creative, better adjusted & feel less stress. But what about at home? Does parental support of autonomy influence the development of executive function and self-regulation skills?  #DAP #parenting #learning #teaching

Learning to blur the boundaries between facilitating and instigating in an attempt to define how to teach, without teaching. #art #creativity #teaching #learning

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 

I bet you are familiar with some of the gifts even if you aren't familiar with Froebel! This was one of the supplementary handouts to the "Masters" workshop which is currently being revised to be more diverse so it's not just a parade of dead white guys. #theorists #handouts 

Missed the older version of the workshop? (It's still accurate, just not as inclusive as it needs to be) Want to watch it again? Got a DVD player? Lisa has DVDs of all her workshops! #oldschool  

I am including this document as it presents some names that are not typically included in a "basic intro to the theorists" resource; and I liked that. #DAP #teaching #learning #theorists 

Data was collected over a five year span.  Anyone wanna take any guesses? Yup! You guessed it! The adventure playground was statistically safer.  #adventureplaygrounds #playgrounds #play #risk #movement #recess #playwork #outside 

Childhood should be a deep well, full of rich, individual perceptions and experience to which you can return for sustenance throughout life.  #play

This is a link to a nice (yet brief) overview of the benefits of rough and tumble play.  BONUS! There are some great resources listed at the end, including a few YouTube videos! #play #DAP #powerplaying

This essay was originally intended to be one of the Andrew Lang lectures at St. Andrews, and it was, in abbreviated form, delivered there in 1938.  #fairytales #stories #books #reading 

Caring does NOT substitute or replace learning, caring establishes an effective culture for it to actually happen. #caring #teaching #learning #relationships

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