Education
Readings
By Allan Alach
Every week Bruce Hammonds and I collect article to share with teachers to encourage a creative approach to teaching and learning. We welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz
Every week Bruce Hammonds and I collect article to share with teachers to encourage a creative approach to teaching and learning. We welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz
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Taking the lead involves setting a direction that
variously connects, reconnects, and disconnects
Here’s a long but vital article by Kelvin Smythe that
deconstructs the current pressure to do away with Reading Recovery and for its
replacement by heavily phonics based reading instruction.
‘The
whole process of a particularly shonky review office report, lack of
consultation, and announcement by media storm, is an education disgrace. An
inquiry should be set up by the ministry to determine if those involved should
be held at fault, the motivations for what happened, and how due process and
integrity of reports can be assured in the future.’
Spontaneous
singing and young children’s musical agency
'This
suggests that the development of young children’s musicality can be integrated
into general early childhood practice by creating an environment in which
improvisational and playful singing can take place and is valued as both a
legitimate form of music-making and as a means of acting in and on the world.
Early childhood educators need to be aware that improvisation is a natural part
of young children’s musical play and that children are able to create and adapt
songs that are fit-for-purpose.’
The decline of play in preschoolers — and the rise in sensory issues
This is becoming very apparent in new entrant classes across New
Zealand.
The
play deficit - Peter Grey
Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure.
Without
‘In
my book, Free to Learn (2013), I document these changes, and argue that the
rise in mental disorders among children is largely the result of the decline in
children’s freedom. If we love our children and want them to thrive, we must
allow them more time and opportunity to play, not less.’
Down
side of being dubbed 'class clown’
‘Being
dubbed the class clown by teachers and peers has negative social repercussions
for third-grade boys that may portend developmental and academic consequences
for them, researchers found.’
Contributed
by Bruce
Hammonds:
The Perks of a Play-in-the-Mud Educational Philosophy
When did America decide preschool should be in a classroom?
. Give young kids the opportunities to engage in hours of
free, unstructured play in the natural world, and they develop just as
organically as any other creature. They learn creativity as they explore and
engage with complex ecological systems—and imagine new worlds of their own.
Freed from playground guardrails that constrain (even as they protect), kids
build strength, develop self-confidence, and learn to manage risks as they
trip, stumble, fall, hurt, and right themselves. Research shows that the
freedom of unstructured time in open space helps kids learn to focus. It also
just feels good: Nature reduces stress.
Finding the Beauty of Math Outside of Class
Math trails help students explore, discover, enjoy, and
celebrate math concepts and problems in real-world contexts.
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The role of technology in education
‘When we think about the classrooms of the future, we have
to ask what (as Marshall McLuhan has put it) technologies like radio and
television can do that the present classroom can’t. That means asking: what’s
futuristic about the future? And equally important, whom will it belong to?’
A playful approach to learning means more imagination and exploration
'Play in education is controversial. Although it is widely
accepted that very young children need to play, as they progress through the
school system, the focus moves quickly to measuring learning. And despite the
fact that play is beneficial throughout life, supporting creativity and
happiness, it is still seen by many in education as a frivolous waste of time,
and not really relevant to proper learning.’
From Bruce’s ‘goldie
oldies’ file:
Advice from David Perkins to make learning whole
‘The problem Perkins says is there is too much problem
solving (teachers’ problems) and not
30 Years ago - so what has changed?
‘Recently I received e-mail from a student I hadn't heard
of since she was in my class in 1978. She wrote about how great it was to
experience the class and how much all that we did has stayed with her over the
years. With this in mind I searched out something I wrote, at the time, for the
team of teachers I was leading. I was curious to see how much my ideas had
changed since then.’
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