Remodeling School rooms with Play-based Studying
Within the second episode of the season, host Nancy Chung sits down with two subject 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 influence on pupil engagement, social abilities, and cognitive improvement throughout all age teams.
The episode showcases the varied 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 method to actively participating college students in making sense of the world round them.
They discuss how play is important in nurturing abilities for youngsters’s future success. Jennifer quotes Fred Rogers, who noticed, “Play is commonly talked about as if it have been a aid from severe studying. However for youngsters, play is severe studying. Play is absolutely the work of childhood.”
The dialogue additionally explores the evolution of play-based studying from early childhood by means of highschool. Kathy and Jennifer spotlight how structured recess and bodily actions foster wholesome habits and enrich social interactions.
Listeners obtain sensible recommendation on the way to weave play-based methods into lecture rooms, no matter grade stage. Our skilled friends share artistic examples of play actions, emphasizing the advantages of peer instructing and inclusion.
Play is a strategy to assist youngsters’s wholesome improvement and create constructive motion alternatives that may have a long-lasting influence 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 normally & 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 Skilled for Early Childhood at College Specialty, the place she helps gross sales, advertising, and merchandising within the early childhood class. She additionally gives skilled improvement and presents at state and nationwide early childhood conferences nationwide.
Kathy Descamps
Kathy has 30 years of expertise working with college programs and neighborhood companions to enhance youngster well being by means of bodily exercise and diet schooling initiatives. She makes a speciality of bodily schooling product improvement and funding methods for youngster well being and wellness programming. She has additionally supplied skilled improvement to hundreds of bodily exercise trainees all through the US and internationally. Kathy is the Topic Matter Skilled for Bodily Schooling, Well being, and Wellness at College Specialty.
