Reworking Lecture rooms with Play-based Studying
Within the second episode of the season, host Nancy Chung sits down with two material specialists from College Specialty: Kathy Descamps, an professional in bodily schooling, well being, and wellness, and returning visitor Jennifer Fernandez in early childhood.
Nancy talks to Kathy and Jennifer concerning the energy of play-based studying and its affect on pupil engagement, social abilities, and cognitive growth throughout all age teams.
The episode showcases the assorted types of play-based studying, from exploratory play to structured video games. Play-based studying is offered not simply as a educating technique however as a basic method to actively participating college students in making sense of the world round them.
They discuss how play is essential in nurturing abilities for youngsters’s future success. Jennifer quotes Fred Rogers, who noticed, “Play is usually talked about as if it had been a reduction from critical studying. However for youngsters, play is critical studying. Play is absolutely the work of childhood.”
The dialogue additionally explores the evolution of play-based studying from early childhood via highschool. Kathy and Jennifer spotlight how structured recess and bodily actions foster wholesome habits and enrich social interactions.
Listeners obtain sensible recommendation on how one can weave play-based methods into lecture rooms, no matter grade stage. Our professional visitors share artistic examples of play actions, emphasizing the advantages of peer educating and inclusion.
Play is a strategy to assist kids’s wholesome growth and create optimistic motion alternatives that may have a long-lasting affect on their bodily exercise ranges into adolescence and maturity.
Kathy Descamps
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Jennifer Fernandez
Jennifer has over 30 years of expertise in schooling. She has a BA in Elementary Schooling & Spanish and a Grasp’s in Bilingual Schooling. She has taught PreK4-2nd grade typically & bilingual/twin language settings in Texas, Minnesota, and Mexico Metropolis. Jennifer was knowledgeable studying specialist for PreK4SA in San Antonio for seven years. She is presently the nationwide Topic Matter Knowledgeable for Early Childhood at College Specialty, the place she helps gross sales, advertising, and merchandising within the early childhood class. She additionally supplies skilled growth and presents at state and nationwide early childhood conferences nationwide.
Kathy Descamps
Kathy has 30 years of expertise working with college techniques and neighborhood companions to enhance youngster well being via bodily exercise and diet schooling initiatives. She focuses on bodily schooling product growth and funding methods for youngster well being and wellness programming. She has additionally supplied skilled growth to 1000’s of bodily exercise trainees all through the US and internationally. Kathy is the Topic Matter Knowledgeable for Bodily Schooling, Well being, and Wellness at College Specialty.
