Remodeling Lecture rooms with Play-based Studying
Within the second episode of the season, host Nancy Chung sits down with two material consultants from Faculty Specialty: Kathy Descamps, an skilled in bodily training, 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 growth 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 educating technique however as a basic strategy to actively participating college students in making sense of the world round them.
They discuss how play is important 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 aid from critical studying. However for youngsters, play is critical studying. Play is basically the work of childhood.”
The dialogue additionally explores the evolution of play-based studying from early childhood via 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 lecture rooms, no matter grade degree. Our skilled friends share inventive examples of play actions, emphasizing the advantages of peer educating and inclusion.
Play is a approach to help youngsters’s wholesome growth and create constructive motion alternatives that may have a long-lasting 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 training. 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 Skilled for Early Childhood at Faculty Specialty, the place she helps gross sales, advertising, and merchandising within the early childhood class. She additionally offers skilled growth and presents at state and nationwide early childhood conferences nationwide.
Kathy Descamps
Kathy has 30 years of expertise working with faculty methods and group companions to enhance youngster well being via bodily exercise and vitamin training initiatives. She makes a speciality of bodily training product growth and funding methods for youngster well being and wellness programming. She has additionally offered skilled growth to 1000’s of bodily exercise trainees all through the US and internationally. Kathy is the Topic Matter Skilled for Bodily Schooling, Well being, and Wellness at Faculty Specialty.
