Posted by Chip on November 1, 2010
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. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click “Post a Comment” or [...]
Categories: Holidays & Traditions, Importance of Play |
Tags: Halloween, imagination, importance of play, voting | 
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Posted by Chip on October 18, 2010
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. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this [...]
Categories: Education Reform, Importance of Play, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn |
Tags: Alliance for Childhood, BAM Radio, City College of New York, Columbia University, Education Reform, Edward Zeigler, Gesell, Harvard Education Letter, Headstart, importance of play, Joan Almond, KaBoom!, Moving and Learning, Rae Pica, Sharon Lynn Kagan, Teachers College, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn, William Crain, Yale | 2 Comments »
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. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this [...]
Categories: Importance of Play, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn |
Tags: developmental teaching, importance of play, kindergarten, observing children, Thinking Developmentally, Time to Learn | 10 Comments »
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 [...]
Categories: Importance of Play, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: Alliance for Childhoood, Crisis in the Kindergarten, critical thinking skills, Deborah J. Leong, Developmental Education, Elena Bodrova, importance of play, Responsive Classroom approach, Thinking Developmentally, Tools of the Mind | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on March 31, 2009
On the heels of some wonderful comments from a reader and fellow blogger, Rae Pica, about recess, come powerful new reminders about the importance of play for children from a terrific organization: Alliance for Childhood. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog [...]
Categories: Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: A Place for Play, Arne Duncan, Crisis in the Kindergarten, David Elkind, Deborah Meier, Developmental Education, imaginative play, importance of play, Linda Darling-Hammond, President Obama, structured recess, Thinking Developmentally, Where Do the Children Play | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on March 20, 2009
A wonderful blog to link to from this one is Rae Pica’s “The Pica Perspective.” Just click on the blog’s name to the right, under “Blogs I Like,” and find her February 27, 2009, entry. In it, she notes the flurry of research and press about the positive influence of recess on school behavior and [...]
Categories: Managing Behavior, The Responsive Classroom® approach, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: children's need for play, importance of play, importance of recess, Pica Perspective, Rae Pica, Responsive Classroom approach, Thinking Developmentally | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Categories: Importance of Play, Thinking Developmentally |
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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