Connecting educators through reflective conversation since 2010. 🌟The Kinderchat Guide to the Classroom (2021) & Elementary School School Projects (2023) 🌟
#Kinderchat writing and reflection prompts are up for January! Take a look! Subscribe and it will come right to your inbox once a month!
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Reminder that the #Kinderchat December writing prompts are up! Take a look and respond on your own blog or journal or as you are so moved! https://t.co/EHu781996W
It was about time I got back to writing blog posts: In this, I talk about how we make more of those student ideas and questions that aren't in our anticipated direction for the lesson.
#InquiryMathematics#DocumentingLearning#Pedagogy
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New #Kinderchat writing prompts are up for November! Take a look and share your thoughts with a link to your reflection as you are moved! This month we focus on child development: https://t.co/WqwkWmakFz
Really pleased to share our new open access paper: “Picturebooks Increase the Frequency and Diversity of Emotion Vocabulary in Children’s Language Environments: Modeling Potential Benefits to Emotional Literacy, with Pedagogical Resources”. https://t.co/FdWQgyyboc
New #Kinderchat writing prompts are up for November! Take a look and share your thoughts with a link to your reflection as you are moved! This month we focus on child development: https://t.co/WqwkWmakFz
Last week of this month’s #Kinderchat writing and reflection prompts on curriculum! Take a look and share your reflection here, there, or anywhere! https://t.co/7zZeOVRo9c New month of prompts launch next week!
A researcher who discovered that the benefits of academically oriented pre-K classrooms quickly fade and even turn negative explains in simple language how that happens. Why a "scripted, academically focused curriculum" for young children makes no sense: https://t.co/m13RH3hmwH
Reminder of the #Kinderchat writing prompts for this month as we focus on curriculum! Reflect, write and post as you are so moved! https://t.co/7zZeOVRo9c
"An outcome confirmed in hundreds of studies: students gain a much deeper understanding of science when they actively grapple with...questions than when they passively listen to answers": https://t.co/Hwj1aNwtZy
The parents I really admire are those willing to keep asking themselves this question: "Is it possible that what I just did with my kids had more to do with my needs, my fears, and my own upbringing than with what’s really in their best interest?"