Remodeling 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 skilled in bodily schooling, well being, and wellness, and returning visitor Jennifer Fernandez in early childhood.
Nancy talks to Kathy and Jennifer in regards to the energy of play-based studying and its affect on scholar engagement, social expertise, 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 instructing technique however as a elementary strategy to actively participating college students in making sense of the world round them.
They speak about how play is vital in nurturing expertise for kids’s future success. Jennifer quotes Fred Rogers, who noticed, “Play is commonly talked about as if it have been a reduction from severe studying. However for kids, play is severe studying. Play is admittedly the work of childhood.”
The dialogue additionally explores the evolution of play-based studying from early childhood by highschool. Kathy and Jennifer spotlight how structured recess and bodily actions foster wholesome habits and enrich social interactions.
Listeners obtain sensible recommendation on how you can weave play-based methods into school rooms, no matter grade stage. Our skilled company share inventive examples of play actions, emphasizing the advantages of peer instructing and inclusion.
Play is a method 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 Training & Spanish and a Grasp’s in Bilingual Training. She has taught PreK4-2nd grade on the whole & bilingual/twin language settings in Texas, Minnesota, and Mexico Metropolis. Jennifer was an expert studying specialist for PreK4SA in San Antonio for seven years. She is at the moment the nationwide Topic Matter Professional for Early Childhood at College Specialty, the place she helps gross sales, advertising and marketing, and merchandising within the early childhood class. She additionally offers skilled growth and presents at state and nationwide early childhood conferences nationwide.
Kathy Descamps
Kathy has 30 years of expertise working with faculty methods and group companions to enhance baby well being by bodily exercise and vitamin schooling initiatives. She makes a speciality of bodily schooling product growth and funding methods for baby well being and wellness programming. She has additionally supplied skilled growth to hundreds of bodily exercise trainees all through the US and internationally. Kathy is the Topic Matter Professional for Bodily Training, Well being, and Wellness at College Specialty.