For Your Binder
Children Educate Themselves Part III: How hunter-gatherer children learn without schools
Part III in a series by Peter Gray. #play #DAP #learning #teaching
Sensory-Motor Reading Readiness for School
Dr. Johnson has seen children diagnosed with AD/HD or learning disabilities “miraculously” improve when they are taken out of “academic” kindergartens or given an extra year in a developmental kindergarten that emphasizes movement, play, and the integration of their sensory-motor systems. #DAP #play #teaching #learning #movement #reading #writing
The Case for Elementary School Recess
Even juries get recess!!!!! #recess #movement #play #DAP #outside #teaching #learning
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences
From the horse's mouth! I first came across this as a stand alone article, I now see that it is Chapter 24 of The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. #theorists #learning #teaching
J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”
Authors write. Who the work is deemed "for" is on us. #fairytales #books #stories #reading
Why can't we get beyond quality?
What's the "problem with quality" and why can't we get beyond it? #teaching
The New Preschool is Crushing Kids: Young children are working more, but learning less
Kindergarten now serves as a gatekeeper, not a welcome mat, to elementary school. #play #pushdown #teaching
2? 4? 6? Grouping Children to Promote Social and Emotional Development
See you at the steps! #DAP #teaching #learning
Mixed Age Grouping - Why we love it!
When I first read this article in the margins I simply wrote, "This is beautiful." #DAP #play #teaching #learning #mixedages
What is Play? In Search of a Universal Definition
The ambiguous, variable, and paradoxical nature of the play concept is so widely accepted, that most play theorists consider the search for a universal definition to be pure folly. #play #theorists
Note: while no date is provided in the article, I originally read it in 2015 if that provides any context.
Why kids deserve a preschool that lets them play
A push-down curriculum isn’t helping kids to get ahead, it’s simply ignoring the critical role of the foundation. #play #DAP #parenting #pushdown #teaching #learning
