Education Week: Pre-K Rules for ELLs Would Break Ground Nationally

Education Week: Pre-K Rules for ELLs Would Break Ground Nationally


Thought you might find this interesting.

Questioning why you're doing what you're doing

from the Reggio listserv...

I want to share this piece from Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care--by Dahlberg, Moss and Pence....it gets to the heart of the image of the child that is often projected in schools...a practice that leads to a weak image of the child---

"A typical pedagogical practice is the pattern of question--answer, which the pedagogue poses questions to the children----but questions which actually are not real questions as the pedagogue already knows the "true" answers and only listens for these answers. ....Studies show that this appears during morning sessions or circle times. This teacher game of of "guess what I'm thinking of? It shows children busy trying to grasp the code of what to be expected of them from this "teacher" game. It shows how the question-answer pattern is embodied in the pedagogue/teacher and the children. How, in this type of exchange, very poor and helpless a child appears, a child seen as an object without his or her own resources and potentials, a child to be filled with knowledge but not challenged.....the child is viewed not as a co-constructor, but rather as a reproducer, of knowledge..."

Study: Spanking Kids Leads to More Aggressive Behavior

And confirmation of what you all already know...

Study: Spanking Kids Leads to More Aggressive Behavior

Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School?

An interesting study.


Should Kids Be Bribed to Do Well in School?

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