Today is November 1st, a date nestled this year between last night’s Halloween and tomorrow’s mid-term elections, both interconnected by the need to use a heavy dose of imagination.
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Long-awaited research providing updated norms for the Gesell Developmental Assessment for young children is providing compelling evidence that children’s basic developmental growth patterns and rates are not changing, according to news released last Friday in The Harvard Education Letter.
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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.
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I received an email from a reader recently inquiring about the application of Responsive Classroom® practices to summer camp. The reader had found reference in my writing to the fact that some of the foundational ideas for the Responsive Classroom approach were drawn from camping practices and wondered about how Responsive Classroom practices might now [...]
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After my own reading, observing, and thinking so much about the power of imaginative play in children’s development of self-regulation and the scaffolding of learning in early educational settings, I’ve inevitably been paying closer attention to Lily (now 4.7) and Isaiah (now 9.10) at play on the home front.
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“The very attributes we most want to nurture in our children—creativity, initiative, collaboration, problem-solving, courage—are best developed through imaginative play.”
The quote above—from the Alliance for Childhood’s report “Crisis in the Kindergarten” noted in my last post—is a succinct summary of one of the key expert findings explored in the nine significant research studies and numerous [...]
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If you’ve been around in education for a while, you certainly have seen the cycling of educational trends from those that favor a more child-centered, scaffolding, developmental point of view of learning (like myself and many of you who may frequent this blog) and those who believe in a more rigorous, back-to-basics, paper and pencil, [...]
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William Crain, professor of psychology at the City College of New York, graciously contributed the foreword to the 3rd edition of my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom, Ages 4-14 (NEFC, 2007).
I have long been an admirer of Dr. Crain’s major textbook in child development, Theories of Development which I certainly recommend.
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