Pikler/Lóczy Fund USA. Our Purpose. Earlyarts is the award winning, national network for early childhood educators who believe in nurturing their children’s creative potential. Earlyarts produces trusted, high quality, creative teaching materials which are directly relevant to the ways in which young children learn. Based on evidence-based teaching methodologies, our teaching materials are brought to life through webinar training, consultancy and international resources designed to make the practice of early education more enjoyable and more effective – for both the adult and the child. Earlyarts continues to share the highest quality practice as well as supporting settings with relevant research and evidence, appraisal of relevant policy, curriculum development, and effective creative early years practice across the world. Do2Learn: Educational Resources for Special Needs.
Children's Art: Process VERSUS Product. IT'S FEBRUARY!!! HAPPY FEBRUARY!!!!!! HAPPY HEARTS!!!!! HAPPY 100th DAY!!!! By Debbie Clement Today is going to be about all things Children's Art: Process Versus Product. Are you just LUVing our collaboration by this point? I LUV getting to make school visits wearing my 'music-lady' hat and just last week I had a delightful road trip over to Louisiana. Here are some images from Bexley, Ohio at Maryland Ave. Some parents got more involved in the 'homework' than others. This concludes the intro-welcome of my post.
With the growing readership here at our collaboration I have an ever growing wonderment, concern, anxiety, trepidation, excitement over selecting a topic for my monthly installment. In my enthusiasm to get some of my own previous articles from my blog linked up right here -- I've been thinking about painting and children ever since. There ya go people -- the paper plates say it all! ProcessIt's all about the engagement, the exploration, the experiment. Do you hear my bias? Coloring Within The Lines. Tools of the Mind | Extended Campus | Metro State.
To successfully function in school and beyond, children need to learn more than a set of facts and skills. They need to master a set of mental tools—tools of the mind. The concept of "Tools of the Mind" comes from the work of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky , He believed that just as physical tools extend our physical abilities , mental tools extend our mental abilities to enable us to solve problems and create solutions in the modern world According to Vygotsky, until children learn to use mental tools, their learning is largely controlled by the environment: they attend only to the things that are the brightest or loudest and they can remember something only if has been repeated many times.
AFTER children master mental tools, they can become in charge of their own learning by attending and remembering in an intentional and purposeful way. Instruction should be based on a comprehensive theory of learning and development. Contact Us | The Montessori Society AMI UK.