I obtain a good variety of newly printed early childhood/instructing books, typically unsolicited, with the concept that I am going to write a evaluation or in any other case put it on the market on the weblog. I do not learn all of them — certainly, I solely are inclined to learn those who come…
The alternative of play is not work, it is rote. ~Edward Hollowell This would possibly sound like an odd factor for a trainer to jot down, however I typically get the concept that realizing stuff is the enemy of schooling. There may be little gratification in it for me once I’ve envisioned how youngsters will do…
Folks are likely to have one in all two responses once I inform them I am a trainer. Both they are saying one thing like, “Good for you . . . Such vital work,” or they roll their eyes and puff out their cheeks in comedian mimicry of exhausted frustration and say one thing alongside…
I began this weblog in 2009 just because I would written a pair articles for Seattle’s Little one journal that I believed had been fairly good and felt they deserved a life past the recycling bin. That was everything of my ambition. This weblog would supply an internet residence for these two articles. Interval. They did not…
The central concept behind Charles Darwin’s Idea of Evolution is that it’s pushed by survival and “probability variation.” The survival half, and “survival of the fittest” specifically, is the facet we are inclined to have a good time in well-liked tradition, comparable to law-of-the-jungle actuality recreation reveals, sporting occasions, magnificence pageants, and all types of…
Not way back, I witnessed a scene by which one boy started to cry as a result of one other boy, fully by chance, knocked over his block development. The second boy nearly instantly broke into tears as properly. Then, a 3rd boy who had not been concerned in any approach, joined the primary two. This was…
It is odd celebrating Labor Day on this nation given the conflict being waged in opposition to labor by most of the strongest members of our society, and the outright vitriol coming from elected representatives who malign working women and men as nothing greater than egocentric, lazy, union thugs. Initially of summer season, on Memorial…
I’ve spent my total classroom profession working shoulder-to-shoulder with the mother and father of the youngsters I taught. As a cooperative faculty, to enroll youngsters in our lessons, an grownup, usually a father or mother, however generally a grandparent, nanny, or different caretaker, was required to attend a minimal of sooner or later every week…
Play is like love or happiness. We won’t outline it, however we all know it after we see it, after we really feel it, after we’re within the midst of it. Play is likewise like love or happiness in that in the event you suppose about it an excessive amount of, it has a behavior of…
We by no means had a teeter totter (i.e., seesaw) on our playground, however the kids typically made their very own, often by pivoting a plank of wooden over a log. Generally they’d put the plank of over one in every of our swings and name it a “teeter swing.” The contraptions might additionally simply…
In his bestselling guide The Anxious Technology, Jonathan Haidt’s central declare is that “overprotection in the true world and underproduction within the digital world . . . are the foremost explanation why kids born after 1995 turned the anxious technology.” We have actually all seen it within the kids we work with. We have all nervous concerning the…
The Trainer of the Month award is designed to acknowledge an worker that exemplifies our core values, that are compassion, humility, integrity, loyalty, and self-discipline. This month we’re happy to announce that our 2024 July Nationwide Trainer of the Month is Ms. Hannah of Little Sunshine’s Playhouse and Preschool of Springfield at Chestnut. In speaking…