Posts belonging to Category Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum
Posted by Chip on July 16, 2010
A great emphasis in education these days is the call for “21st Century Skills” to be taught in PreK–12 education. The purpose of this emphasis is to bring curriculum and instruction into alignment and relevance with the environment today’s students will live and work in as adults.
There is no universal agreement on what the list [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform |
Tags: 21st century skills, Education Reform, social-emotional development, social-emotional learning | 
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Posted by Chip on June 30, 2010
My granddaughter, Lily, loves to swim. Watching her in the water in the summertime is one of the most joyful experiences of this grandfather’s days. In her element, she challenges herself at the leading edge of learning and adventure. She now floats on her back long distances, swims underwater, treads water, and is beginning to [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Importance of Play, Time to Learn |
Tags: Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, developmental teaching, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, importance of play, kindergarten, observing children, Time to Learn | 10 Comments »
Posted by Chip on June 16, 2010
Grandson Isaiah’s tenth year was filled with collections of boyhood in the year in which children are typically drawn to collecting and classifying. His album of baseball cards expanded as did his knowledge of amazing facts from nature and the Guinness Book of World Records (undoubtedly in the top ten of favorite fifth grade books). [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum |
Tags: birthdays, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, eleven-year-olds, Sandra Cisneros, ten-year-olds, Woman Hollering Creek | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on March 23, 2010
You have until April 2nd to comment on the Common Core Standards in Reading and Math.
April 1st might be an appropriate day. According to Ed Week, over 2,000 people have already taken the time to go to www.corestandards.org and navigate the comment section to record comments. Your voice matters, even if changes to the K-3 level at [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform |
Tags: Alliance for Childhood, Common Core standards, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, early childhood education, Education Reform, kiderg, social-emotional development, U.S. education policy | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on March 4, 2010
National “Common Core,” grade by grade, K–12 educational standards are being rapidly finalized across the political landscape as they pass through the doors of governor’s offices and state houses even before the miniscule window of opportunity for public comment closes. Kentucky has already become the first state to endorse such standards publicly in a special [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform |
Tags: Alliance for Childhood, Common Core standards, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, early childhood education, Education Reform, kindergarten, social-emotional development, U.S. education policy | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on November 6, 2009
Elementary school teachers using Responsive Classroom® practices take time at the beginning of the school year to have students identify their learning “hopes and dreams” for the academic year ahead. Many combine this activity with asking parents to identify one or two hopes and dreams that they have for their children in school.
The first parent—teacher [...]
Categories: Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Parent Questions and Concerns, The School Year |
Tags: parent-teacher conferences, Responsive Classroom practices, setting learning goals | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on October 13, 2009
I want to recommend an eye- and heart-opening visit to an amazing teacher’s classroom.
You can visit Toshiro Kanamori’s fourth grade class in a primary school in Kanazawa, Japan, northwest of Tokyo, by watching a DVD called “Children-Full-of-Life.” For a taste, go to YouTube to watch any of the five filmed segments. Or order the DVD [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Diversity |
Tags: Children-Full-of-Life, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Diversity, DVDs about children, Toshiro Kanamori | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on September 28, 2009
Another provocative, idea-challenging, and idea-changing book I’ve just pored over is NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children (Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2009).
Written by two award-winning journalists, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, this exciting book is a collection of individual explorations of research and programs in child development and learning that turn conventional thinking, including some of my [...]
Categories: Books, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum |
Tags: Books, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Nurtureshock, Paula Denton, The Power of Our Words | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on September 11, 2009
Heard this term? I observed a striking example of this definition of our young people in action as I sat at the back of a group of nearly 100 fifth graders watching and listening to the President’s “First day of School” address September 8th (see previous blog entry).
The group was attentive and respectful, but when [...]
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Tags: children and technology, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Lois Lowry, the distractible generation, The Giver, Thomas Merton, Time to Learn | 3 Comments »
Posted by Chip on April 3, 2009
Good things come in small packages.
A small, new, groundbreaking book called simply Crisis in the Kindergarten—Why Children Need to Play in School is currently available in bookstores and on the web from Alliance for Childhood in College Park, Maryland. Every teacher, parent, and educational policy maker should read and forward a comment about it to [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Time to Learn |
Tags: Arne Duncan, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, education refrom, Time to Learn | Post a Comment »
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