Teacher Tom

Teaching and learning from preschoolers

Friday, May 19, 2023

A Joyful, Intense, Life-Affirming Expression Of Love

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I've experienced it enough times to take it for granted, but whenever kids wrestle at preschool, I always at some point ...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Always Role Modeling

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As the two-year-old boy tried to walk up a short, sand-dusted concrete slope, his feet slipped from beneath him. He fell for...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Fiddling, Perfecting, And Doodling

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On the short list of history's geniuses, most of us would include Leonardo da Vinci. He is perhaps the most famous polym...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Anger

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Anger is generally viewed as a secondary emotion in that if you dig a little, you find that it is typically fueled by a prim...
Monday, May 15, 2023

My Job

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As a preschool teacher, I always try to keep one thing in mind. My job beyond creating a beautiful, meaningful, safe-enough ...
Friday, May 12, 2023

They Need Their Childhood

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Why are so many of us so afraid to just let children play?  Some time ago, we got out our boxes of Magna-Tiles. These are co...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

"Where Does The Mind Stop And The Rest Of The World Begin?"

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It takes humans years before they fully comprehend their separateness from their caretakers. At least that's the widely ...
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Teacher Tom
Seattle, Washington, United States
I am a preschool teacher, blogger, speaker, artist and the author of Teacher Tom's First Book. After nearly 20 years as the preschool teacher at the Woodland Park Cooperative School teaching children from 2-5, I'm now working with businesses and other institutions to help make high-quality, play-based preschool education a possibility for children everywhere.
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