ALL Children Deserve Play
I’ve been busy behind the pages of this blog.
Between conferences and workshops and the planning meetings that accompany those trainings, a common topic emerged, something I’ve been mulling over a bit. It is this: Is play as a valuable part of early childhood classrooms more likely to be challenged when applied to low-income populations – children who may be viewed as “behind?” Is it harder to get support for developmentally appropriate practices for children who need the most developmental support?
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Childhood is Meant to Take Time
It’s ironic that there are still some people who seem to believe that the faster you can move children through childhood, the more advanced they’ll be.
A Swiss Psychologist and the American Question
Long before the technology existed to allow us a real-time view inside the developing brain, a Swiss psychologist by the name of Jean Piaget explored the developmental patterns behind language and cognition in childhood. As one of the most influential developmental psychologists of the 20th century, he was a prolific writer and a pioneer in giving a developmental context to the human tasks of thinking and learning.
Are we settling for “artificial intelligence” for our children?
The doctor was running behind (of course), so I flipped through one of the family magazines as I waited in her office. Almost immediately I was taken aback by an advertisement.
Maybe We Should Teach the Way They Learn
In America, we currently have this idea that our children are struggling academically so the answer lies in pushing them more and more, at earlier and earlier ages… If our children are struggling academically, it does not make sense to make them do more of the same things that are failing them and from a younger age.”
What I’m NOT Saying When I Speak About Developmentally Appropriate Practice
When I get the chance to speak to groups about DAP I cover a lot of ground.
I talk about things like: [Read more…]
Discovering the Culture of Childhood
We each view the world through our own unique lenses. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just the product of who we are, where we’ve been, and what we experience. Through all of that, we then filter how we perceive the world.
Teaching Children the Way They’re Meant to Learn: Read Along Section One –What if Everybody Understood Child Development?
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