100 Day Project – Day 44 – 9:30 p.m. This evening I had occasion to have dinner with three other very bright, and devoted women: women who have worked for years with young children and their families. Discussion ranged from jobs and families to the state of politics, and about children. This recent study was […]
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100 Day Project – Day 44 – Risk taking
October 19th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 44 – Risk taking · 100 Days Project, Children, family, Musings, Work
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100 Day Project – Day 39 – Quality
October 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 39 – Quality · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Education, Quote of the Week, Teaching & Learning, Work
100 Day Project – Day 39 – the next day at 6:34….. “It is important to ask and answer this question: What do students need to know and be able to do “out there” as a result of their work in our classrooms.” Ruth Stiehls The Outcomes Primer Exactly! I ask myself this constantly. At […]
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100 Day Project – Day 38 – Light bulbs
October 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 38 – Light bulbs · 100 Days Project, Children, College students, Musings, Teaching & Learning
100 Day Project – Day 38 – 8:56 pm There were two lightbulb moments today: one for a student, and one for me. An Introduction to Early Childhood Student had a really obvious lightbulb moment. I ask students to have Reading Talks. They have read an assignment, responded to it in writing and come prepared […]
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100 Day Project – Day 32 – Play
October 7th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 32 – Play · 100 Days Project, Children, family, Musings, Play
The three day weekend starting tomorrow reminds me of the importance of play for adults! Next week in my Introduction to Early Childhood Education, we’ll talk about play: what it is, the stages of play, how to support it, how to help children who don’t have a multiple assortment of ways to do it, and […]
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100 Day Project – Day 31 – Llama llama!
October 6th, 2011 · Comments Off on 100 Day Project – Day 31 – Llama llama! · 100 Days Project, Books, Children, College students, Fundraiser, Reading, Teaching & Learning, Website of the Week, Work
100 Day Project – Day 31 – 8:57 p.m. Today I read Llama Llama Red Pajama – not once – but twice! Did you? As part of JumpStart’s Read for the Record Program, I enjoyed reading the book to a group of early childhood pre-service teachers, and a group of women who donated books and […]