Posts belonging to Category Importance of Play
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 | 
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Posted by Chip on May 19, 2009
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 [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Importance of Play, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Time to Learn |
Tags: building adult community, Developmental Needs, summer camp | 3 Comments »
Posted by Chip on April 22, 2009
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. Lily never tires of pretending. Recently, [...]
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Tags: developmental changes, imaginative play, Indian in the Cupboard, Lynn Reid Banks, Olympians, Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on April 13, 2009
“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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Tags: Alliance for Childhoood, Crisis in the Kindergarten, critical thinking skills, Deborah J. Leong, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Elena Bodrova, Importance of Play, Responsive Classroom approach, Tools of the Mind | 1 Comment »
Posted by Chip on April 29, 2008
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, [...]
Categories: Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Importance of Play |
Tags: child-centered, children's need for play, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, forest kindergartens, Friedrich Froebel, Waldkindergartens | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on January 15, 2008
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.
Here I’d like to [...]
Categories: Books, Developmental Education, Developmental Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, Education Reform, Importance of Play |
Tags: Developmental Education, developmental teaching, Reclaiming Childhood: Letting Children Be Children in Our Achievement-Oriented Society., Theories of Development, William Crain, Yardsticks | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on December 4, 2007
With all the emphasis on No Child Left Behind from an academic point of view, the educational, social, emotional and physical benefits of good-old-fashioned recess are being compromised as time for outdoor play is shortened or eliminated all together in some elementary schools. In the process, childhood itself gets left behind.
True, more children today need [...]
Categories: Developmental Needs, Importance of Play |
Tags: importance of play, importance of recess, National Recess Week, recess, Recess Rules, Responsive Classroom approach, Responsive Classroom practices, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | Post a Comment »
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