Teacher Tom
Teaching and learning from preschoolers
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Play-Based Learning is When Thought and Action Merge
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A major focus of my 6-week course Teacher Tom's Play-Based Learning (see below) is the role of the adults when the task...
Monday, September 16, 2024
Some Facts About Play-Based Learning for Preschoolers
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According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the World Economic Forum, and Unicef (and according...
Friday, September 13, 2024
Play-Based Learning Prepares Children for the Real World
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A child fell and bumped her head hard enough that we decided to apply an ice pack. I fetched one of those single-use gel pac...
Thursday, September 12, 2024
Living in a State of Alert Awareness
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Psychologist and author of the book Changing Our Minds , Naomi Fisher, once told me that her three-year-old son took an ear...
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
How to be a Play-Based "Teacher"
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I never pretend to know what kids will learn on any given day and, honestly, any teacher who does is either deluded or blowi...
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Playishness Erodes Authentic Play
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I receive a fair number of newly published early childhood/teaching books, often unsolicited, with the idea that I'll wr...
Monday, September 09, 2024
The Opposite of Rote
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The opposite of play isn't work, it's rote. ~Edward Hollowell This might sound like an odd thing for a teacher to ...
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