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 |
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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 |
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