Posted by Chip on February 8, 2010
A short time ago, we lost one of the clearest and most courageous voices in the field of education. Rachael Kessler, author of The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School and a leader in the field of social and emotional learning, passed away at the end of January.
Rachael knew [...]
Categories: Building Community, Building Relationships with Children, Developmental Needs |
Tags: Building Community, building relationships with children, PassageWorks, Rachael Kessler, social-emotional learning, The Soul of Education | 
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Posted by Chip on December 10, 2007
One way I often model and practice what it means to be a strong learning partner is by having a “game” period where children play checkers, chess, mancala, pick-up sticks, partner card games with each other followed by the partners filling out a “partner reflection sheet” to comment on what they learned from playing with [...]
Categories: Developmental Education |
Tags: developmental teaching, learning partners, Lev Vygotsky, social-emotional learning | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on November 15, 2007
If you are an African American educator or teaching in a predominately African American school, it would be great for you to post a comment to this blog!
A number of researchers and scholars have helped students of child development understand that African American children face a more complex array of developmental tasks as they grow [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Diversity |
Tags: Bertha Garrett Holliday, cultural equity, developmental teaching, Diversity, Harriette Pipes McAdoo, social-emotional learning | 2 Comments »
Posted by Chip on November 12, 2007
If you are teaching in a two-way immersion Spanish-English school setting, it would be great to hear your input on this piece.
Work by Iliana Reyes and her colleagues at the University of Arizona on Mexican-American children’s development is extremely instructive. Their research looks at how children learn languages, something that anyone who teaches children from [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Diversity |
Tags: cultural equity, developmental teaching, Diversity, Iliana Reyes, Latino/Hispanic children, Mexican-American children, social-emotional learning | Post a Comment »
Posted by Chip on November 8, 2007
How children see the world and how they think and act at school is affected by their developmental differences, but also by the family cultures and values they bring to the classroom. A combination of a more diversified teacher population and a deeper valuing of all children’s home cultures by all teachers would go a [...]
Categories: Developmental Education, Diversity |
Tags: cultural equity, developmental teaching, Diversity, Gloria Rodriquez, Latino children, Raising Nuestros Ninos: Bringing Up Latino Children in a Bicultural World, social-emotional learning | 4 Comments »
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