The Possibilities Of Play In The Classroom

Author : Margaret Macintyre Latta
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820455067

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The Possibilities of Play in the Classroom by Margaret Macintyre Latta Pdf

This book reveals the nature, possibilities, and power of aesthetic play in teaching, learning, and researching at a middle school (Creative Arts Centre, Milton Williams School, Calgary, Alberta, Canada), which chooses to value the creating process across the entire school curriculum. Questions surface recursively throughout the book: What does it mean for teachers and students to experience and learn aesthetically? How is the aesthetic embodied in teachers' discourses and discursive patterns as well as in students' approaches to learning and in their work? What are the effects of learning through integration of the aesthetic into the school curriculum as a whole? The artistic form of collage acts as a literary device to address these questions from multiple perspectives.

Author : Jean R. Feldman,Carolyn Kisloski
Publisher : Gryphon House Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 0876599242

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The Possibilities of Play by Jean R. Feldman,Carolyn Kisloski Pdf

Thoughtfully created learning centers are bubbling with opportunities for active learning. Dr. Jean, beloved author of dozens of books and songs, and coauthor Carolyn Kisloski bring you a collection of practical ideas and tips to inspire engagment and spark learning in your classroom centers--and, importantly, keep children coming back for more. Children learn best through play. Discover how you can help them thrive in your learning centers. The Possibilities of Play brings expert tips for selecting and managing materials, facilitating explorations, and challenging children to: explore on their own time and at their own level, engage in hands-on discovery, solve problems and use critical-thinking skills, practice emerging skills across domains, share and get along with others, develop language, and realize their own sense of creativity.

Author : Peter O'Connor,Claudia Rozas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527507395

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Playing with Possibilities by Peter O'Connor,Claudia Rozas Pdf

Playing with Possibilities sits at the heart of all creative endeavours. This collection brings together a multidisciplinary group of thinkers and writers to explore the potential of play to shape and reshape who we are and the worlds in which we live. It offers a series of encounters with playful possibilities, and asks us to question, consider and ultimately celebrate the importance of fanciful approaches to living. This book is a companion to The Possibilities of Creativity (2016).

Author : Bennett, Neville
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780335197323

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Teaching Through Play by Bennett, Neville Pdf

This book is based on the findings of a research project into Reception Teachers' Theories of Play funded by the Economic & Social Research Council. There is strong ideological and theoretical support for a play-based curriculum in the early years. But evidence suggests that teachers find this difficult to translate into practice. The educational potential of play is not realized. This study focuses on nine reception class teachers, ranging from novices to experts, in order to discover their theories of play and how these relate to classroom practice. The data reveal new insights into how they strive to incorporate play into the curriculum in contrasting ways and the constraints they encounter in this process. There is a need to improve the quality of teaching and learning through play. Teaching Through Play makes a valuable contribution to this process.

Author : Marcia L. Nell,Walter F. Drew,Deborah E. Bush
Publisher : National Association of Education of Young Children
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 1928896936

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From Play to Practice by Marcia L. Nell,Walter F. Drew,Deborah E. Bush Pdf

Describes play workshop experiences that give educators a deeper understanding of play-based learning and illustrate the power of play.

Author : Angeline Stoll Lillard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199981526

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Montessori by Angeline Stoll Lillard Pdf

"Excerpts from The absorbent mind ... translated from the Italian by Claude A. Claremont"--T.p. verso.

Author : Edward P. Clapp,Jessica Ross,Jennifer O. Ryan,Shari Tishman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119259701

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Maker-Centered Learning by Edward P. Clapp,Jessica Ross,Jennifer O. Ryan,Shari Tishman Pdf

The Agency by Design guide to implementing maker-centered teaching and learning Maker-Centered Learning provides both a theoretical framework and practical resources for the educators, curriculum developers, librarians, administrators, and parents navigating this burgeoning field. Written by the expert team from the Agency by Design initiative at Harvard's Project Zero, this book Identifies a set of educational practices and ideas that define maker-centered learning, and introduces the focal concepts of maker empowerment and sensitivity to design. Shares cutting edge research that provides evidence of the benefits of maker-centered learning for students and education as a whole. Presents a clear Project Zero-based framework for maker-centered teaching and learning Includes valuable educator resources that can be applied in a variety of design and maker-centered learning environments Describes unique thinking routines that foster the primary maker capacities of looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity. A surge of voices from government, industry, and education have argued that, in order to equip the next generation for life and work in the decades ahead, it is vital to support maker-centered learning in various educational environments. Maker-Centered Learning provides insight into what that means, and offers tools and knowledge that can be applied anywhere that learning takes place.

Author : Dana Frantz Bentley
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807772065

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Everyday Artists by Dana Frantz Bentley Pdf

For the young child, art is a way of solving problems, conceptualizing the world, and creating new possibilities. In Everyday Artists, the author addresses the disconnect that exists between the teaching of art and the way young children actually experience art. In doing so, this book questions commonly held notions and opens up exciting new possibilities for art education in the early childhood classroom. A practicing teacher herself, Bentley uses vignettes of children’s everyday activities—from block building to clean-up to outdoor play—to help teachers identify and scaffold the genuine artistic practice of young children. Book Features: Tangible examples of everyday arts experiences told through lively classroom stories.An examination of the teacher’s role with suggestions of appropriate ways to support children’s artistic expression.Clear explanations of how inquiry and creativity contribute to the overall thinking and learning of the young child.A “Voice of the Teacher” section that offers teaching strategies for extending children’s thinking and learning.A wide-range of ideas for teachers who feel they do not know how to “do” art. Dana Frantz Bentley is a teacher researcher and preschool teacher at Buckingham Browne and Nichols School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She received a Doctorate of Education, Art, and Art Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. “Much has been written about the role of the arts in education, especially about the importance of the arts to early childhood learning. Dana Frantz Bentley endows the arts with an additional and central kind of significance rooted in a broad conception of cognition.” —From the Foreword by Judith M. Burton, Teachers College, Columbia University “Like the young children she describes, Dana Frantz Bentley is an ‘everyday artist,’ making something ‘beautiful’ of her informed and thoughtful pedagogy. There is much to learn from the artful reflection and generative inquiry of this inspired early childhood educator.” —Jessica Hoffmann Davis, author of Why Our Schools Need the Arts

Author : Carla Gull,Suzanne Levenson Goldstein,Tricia Rosengarten
Publisher : Gryphon House Incorporated
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 0876599277

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Spark Imagination, Innovation, and Collaboration with a Loose Parts Mindset: Loose Parts Learning in K-3 Classrooms by Carla Gull,Suzanne Levenson Goldstein,Tricia Rosengarten Pdf

Loose parts. You have heard the term, probably in the context of promoting engaging play with open-ended, natural, and manufactured materials that can be manipulated with limitless possibilities. In this book, discover how a loose parts mindset promotes active learning in the early elementary classroom, enhancing curriculum and ensuring connection to state standards. Offering inspiration and guidance on developing, applying, and teaching a loose parts mindset, the authors break down common myths of using loose parts for learning and walk you through getting started in the classroom and on the school grounds. Examine your role as an educator, address safety concerns, and explore how you might evaluate and assess loose parts in the classroom. The inspiring photographs in this book showcase ways to apply the loose parts mindset to science, technology, reading and literacy, engineering, art, and math lessons. Use this book as a smorgasbord of ideas--pick and choose ones that work for you, your students, and your community. None of us is too old for a little loose parts play!

Author : E. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Child care
ISBN : OCLC:978896118

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Crisis in the Kindergarten by E. Miller Pdf

Author : Marie L. Masterson,Holly Bohart
Publisher : Powerful Playful Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Education
ISBN : 193811339X

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Serious Fun by Marie L. Masterson,Holly Bohart Pdf

A practical book for teachers consisting of 10 YC and TYC articles on the importance of integrating rich content-based, teacher-guided instruction with meaningful child-centered play to nurture children's emerging capabilities and skills.

Author : Vivian Gussin Paley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780226644981

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A Child's Work by Vivian Gussin Paley Pdf

The buzz word in education today is accountability. But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by preparation for standardized tests and quantifiable learning results. Even for very young children, unstructured creative time in the classroom is waning as teachers and administrators are under growing pressures to measure school readiness through rote learning and increased homework. In her new book, Vivian Gussin Paley decries this rapid disappearance of creative time and makes the case for the critical role of fantasy play in the psychological, intellectual, and social development of young children. A Child's Work goes inside classrooms around the globe to explore the stunningly original language of children in their role-playing and storytelling. Drawing from their own words, Paley examines how this natural mode of learning allows children to construct meaning in their worlds, meaning that carries through into their adult lives. Proof that play is the work of children, this compelling and enchanting book will inspire and instruct teachers and parents as well as point to a fundamental misdirection in today's educational programs and strategies.

Author : Pauline Rooney,Nicola Whitton
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781443898416

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Game-Based Learning and the Power of Play by Pauline Rooney,Nicola Whitton Pdf

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the use of games to enhance learning across multiple educational levels, and extensive research has shown that games have considerable potential for enhancing learning, motivation and skills development. However, despite a growing acknowledgement of this potential, challenges remain and the use of games in formal education contexts remains far from mainstream. While some studies identify design and development issues as a key barrier – including associated costs – others highlight organisational and infrastructural difficulties involved in implementing games in the classroom. More recently, increasing recognition of these difficulties has led many to explore how gaming elements (rather than fully fledged games) can be used to engage and enhance student learning – a practice now widely referred to as “gamification”. This edited collection of chapters explores the application, potential and challenges of game-based learning and gamification across multiple disciplines and sectors, including psychology, education, business, history, languages and the creative arts. With contributions exploring the use of games across the full educational spectrum – from early childhood education, through to the corporate sector – it provides comprehensive insights into the potential of games and play for facilitating learning and engagement at every life stage.

Author : Lisa Daly,Miriam Beloglovsky
Publisher : Redleaf Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781605542751

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Loose Parts by Lisa Daly,Miriam Beloglovsky Pdf

Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and motivate learning. The hundreds of inspiring photographs showcase an array of loose parts in real early childhood settings. And the overviews of concepts children can learn when using loose parts provide the foundation for incorporating loose parts into your teaching to enhance play and empower children. The possibilities are truly endless.

Author : Jed Dearybury,Julie P. Jones
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781119674399

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The Playful Classroom by Jed Dearybury,Julie P. Jones Pdf

Shows teachers how and why they should bring play into the classroom to make learning meaningful, relevant, and fun. Research studies show that all students—young and old, rich and poor, urban and rural—benefit immensely from classrooms filled with art, creativity, and laughter. Fun, playfulness, creative thinking, and individual expression reinforce positive experiences, which in turn lead to more engaged students, better classroom environments, and successful learning outcomes. Designed for K-12 educators, The Playful Classroom describes how teachers can develop a playful mindset for giving students meaningful, relevant and fun learning experiences. This unique real-world guide provides you with everything you need to incorporate engaging, hands-on lessons and creative activities, regardless of the level and subject you teach. Building on contemporary and seminal works on learning theory and play pedagogy, the authors explain how to inspire your students by bringing play. into your classroom. This clear, user-friendly guide supplies practical strategies and effective solutions for adding the missing ingredients to your classroom culture. Access to the authors’ companion website provides videos, learning experiences, and downloadable teaching and learning resources. Packed with relatable humor, proven methods, and valuable insights, this book enables you to: Provide meaningful experiences that will benefit students both in school and later in life Combine the principles of PLAY with traditional curricula to encourage creative learning Promote trust, collaboration, and growth in students Develop a playful mindset for bringing the arts into every lesson Foster critical thinking in any school community The Playful Classroom: The Power of Play for All Ages is a must-have resource for K-12 educators, higher education professionals, and readers looking for education-based professional development and training resources.