Bob Dowely – TECDC
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Carol Spencer, Hoosier Courts
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Cecilia Maron-Puntarelli, St. Mark’s Nursery School
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Pizza and Party
Play Based Learning
Play based learning allows children to contextualize and make sense of their social and physical environment, as they actively engage with people, objects and imaginative presentations. While research on brain development is in its infancy, it is believed that play shapes the structural design of the brain. We know that secure attachments and stimulation are significant […]
Play Based vs Testing
Daniel Roussos, Director of the Bloomington Center for Global Children reflects about pressure that parents feel for the children to be prepared for middle school already in early childhood and how important are play and experienced based learning.
Play-Based Curriculum
Carol Spencer, from Hoosier Courts, explains to us the school’s believes and what exactly does a ‘play-based curriculum’ mean. She defends the importance of learning through experience, and building better people starting in early childhood. She also tells us how the school cares for the community that is created inside the classroom, and the network […]
Positive Discipline
Sierra provides a quick overview of the positive discipline methodology used at St. Mark’s Nursery School and Kindergarten. Created by Dr. Becky Bailey, positive discipline techniques are taught and utilized by teachers throughout the program so that children hear and experience a consistent conflict resolution schema. It has been found that this consistency helps children […]
Preparing for Heather
