For Your Binder
The Crisis in Early Education: A Research-Base Case for More Play and Less Pressure
Policymakers persist in ignoring the huge discrepancy between what we know about how young children learn and what we actually do in preschools and kindergartens. #play #pushdown #teaching #learning #DAP
The Dirt on Dirt! How getting dirty outdoors benefits kids
Make two mud pies and call me in the morning! #mud #play #dirt #outside #nature
The Changing Function of the Fairy Tale
It's impossible to define a fairy tale as a literary genre because it has become more of a cultural institution than anything else. #fairytales #stories #reading #books
The State of Early Childhood Three Things That Have Changed Since I Became an Early Childhood Consultant
Rae shares with us the three things she's been hearing all across the country in regard to children and their development. Sadly, they probably won't surprise you. #play #DAP #movement
I did it all by myself! Scaffolding to develop problem-solving and self-help skills in young children
This articles explores the concept of scaffolding and offers a few strategies. #theorists #DAP #teaching #learning
Let Kids Play With Fire, and Other Rules for Good Parenting
A Q/A session with Gever Tulley, co-author of Fifty Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do #risk #play #DAP #outside #parenting #teaching
The All-White World of Children's Books
This link will take you to a microfiche document that is dated in both narrative language and in copyright terms but the heart of the message is still valid: across the country non-white children are learning to read from books which scarcely mention them or omit them entirely - what does that say to them about their perceived role in the world they are growing up in?
#books #stories #DAP #language #literacy #diversity #inclusion #teaching #learning #reading
Let The Kids Learn Through Play
Sooner is NOT better and who decided that "early birds" like worms anyway???
#play #pushdown #learning #teaching
Why kids should go barefoot more (and probably adults, too)
Our feet were healthier before we started wearing shoes! #play #risk #outside #movement
Progressive Education: Why it's hard to beat, but also hard to find
People often sneer at the idea of progressive education based on an image that has little to do with progressive education! #teaching
Why Do We Judge Parents For Putting Kids At Perceived - But Unreal - Risk?
There is some evidence that moral attitudes towards parenting have changed. Example: leaving children unsupervised is now judged as morally "wrong" and, as such, people overestimate the risk associated with it. #risk #play #parenting #outside
