{"id":69861,"date":"2020-03-03T09:35:13","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69861"},"modified":"2020-03-03T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:37:41","slug":"reflections-on-play-is-disappearing-from-kindergarten-its-hurting-kids-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/03\/03\/reflections-on-play-is-disappearing-from-kindergarten-its-hurting-kids-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Play is disappearing from kindergarten. It\u2019s hurting kids.&#8221; [Martin]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-02-04-play-is-disappearing-from-kindergarten-it-s-hurting-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Play is disappearing from kindergarten. It\u2019s hurting kids.<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0 Joe Martin<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/01\/the-new-preschool-is-crushing-kids\/419139\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">an increasing number of schools<\/a>, teachers of very young students are pressured to pack every moment of the day with structured, academically rigorous tasks. One recent whitepaper linked the practice to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/teachingstrategies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Taking_Back_Kindergarten_Teaching_Strategies_2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">preparing kids for the long road of schooling ahead<\/a>, in which progress is measured through standardized testing starting in third grade.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure-image mt1_5 mb1_5 desktop_ad_unit\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Friedrich Froebel, a pedagogue of modern education, coined the term \u201ckindergarten\u201d in 1840 after recognizing the importance of play in the development of young children. Inspired by the idea of a garden, he designed a classroom where the teacher presented children with objects, which they were allowed to play with in any way they could imagine.<\/strong><\/span> When they lost interest in one object, they would be presented with a new one to spark curiosity and creativity. Children were encouraged to grow and flourish in this free form, play-based environment.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Given that we are all into a lifelong learning situation now, I vote for more importance being placed on whether someone enjoyed their learning experience. That said, I know there is struggle in learning&#8230;and learning in the struggle. But we focus so much on grades and standardized testing. This robs the joy from the teaching and learning environment &#8212; for the teachers as well as for the kids.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-02-14-why-aren-t-we-paying-early-childhood-educators-what-they-re-worth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Why aren\u2019t we paying early childhood educators what they\u2019re worth?<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from edsurge.com by Rhian Evans Allvin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play is disappearing from kindergarten. It\u2019s hurting kids. &#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0 Joe Martin Excerpt (emphasis DSC): In\u00a0an increasing number of schools, teachers of very young students are pressured to pack every moment of the day with structured, academically rigorous tasks. One recent whitepaper linked the practice to\u00a0preparing kids for the long road of schooling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,343,347,141,373,419,74,102,7,228,15,423,199,406,279,226,405,66,89,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-attention","category-education","category-education-reform","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-homeschoolinghomeschoolers","category-ideas-teaching","category-leadership","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-preferences","category-lifelong-learning","category-love-of-learning","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-motivation","category-participation","category-passions","category-play","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69864,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861\/revisions\/69864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}