Reworking Lecture rooms with Play-based Studying
Within the second episode of the season, host Nancy Chung sits down with two subject material specialists from Faculty 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 in regards to the energy of play-based studying and its impression on scholar engagement, social expertise, 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 introduced not simply as a instructing technique however as a elementary strategy to actively partaking college students in making sense of the world round them.
They discuss how play is vital in nurturing expertise 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 actually the work of childhood.”
The dialogue additionally explores the evolution of play-based studying from early childhood by way of highschool. Kathy and Jennifer spotlight how structured recess and bodily actions foster wholesome habits and enrich social interactions.
Listeners obtain sensible recommendation on easy methods to weave play-based methods into school rooms, no matter grade degree. Our professional visitors share artistic examples of play actions, emphasizing the advantages of peer instructing and inclusion.
Play is a solution to assist kids’s wholesome improvement and create optimistic motion alternatives that may have an enduring impression 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 present the nationwide Topic Matter Knowledgeable for Early Childhood at Faculty Specialty, the place she helps gross sales, advertising and marketing, and merchandising within the early childhood class. She additionally supplies 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 group companions to enhance baby well being by way of bodily exercise and vitamin schooling initiatives. She makes a speciality of bodily schooling product improvement and funding methods for baby 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 Knowledgeable for Bodily Schooling, Well being, and Wellness at Faculty Specialty.
