For Your Binder
Day care or preschool? It's not just semantics
An unfortunate side effect of the growing recognition of the early years as learning years is that some people get hyperactive about it. #parenting #learning #teaching #DAP #care #relationships
Finding the balance: Early Childhood practitioners' views on risk, challenge and safety in outdoor play settings
Extreme safety concerns and risk minimization strategies are eroding children's opportunities to engage in developmentally appropriate risk taking. #DAP #teaching #risk #play #outside
A Tale of Two Pandemics: how will COVID-19 and global trends in physical inactivity and sedentary behavior affect one another?
Is COVID-19 making us move even less than we were before? #recess #play #movement #covid #outside #DAP
How Children’s Social Skills Impact Success in Adulthood: Findings from a 20-Year Study on the Outcomes of Children Screened in Kindergarten
Social competence in kindergarten was a significant indicator (in adulthood) of both positive and negative outcomes across all domains: education, employment, criminal justice, substance abuse & mental health. This link will take you to a summary of the study. There's a link to the complete study here. #DAP #teaching #learning #play
Children Educate Themselves Part III: How hunter-gatherer children learn without schools
Part III in a series by Peter Gray. #play #DAP #learning #teaching
Setting Children Up to Hate Reading
The American Academy of Pediatrics reminds us that the critical factor as to how a student will learn to read “is not how aggressively,” the child is given instruction, but rather their “own enthusiasm for learning” yet still, we push. #DAP #reading #teaching #learning #pushdown #play #parenting
