Reworking School 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 knowledgeable in bodily training, well being, and wellness, and returning visitor Jennifer Fernandez in early childhood.
Nancy talks to Kathy and Jennifer concerning 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 assorted types of play-based studying, from exploratory play to structured video games. Play-based studying is introduced 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 severe studying. However for youngsters, play is severe studying. Play is admittedly 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 the right way to weave play-based methods into lecture rooms, no matter grade stage. Our knowledgeable company share artistic examples of play actions, emphasizing the advantages of peer educating and inclusion.
Play is a option to help kids’s wholesome improvement and create constructive 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 training. She has a BA in Elementary Training & Spanish and a Grasp’s in Bilingual Training. She has taught PreK4-2nd grade generally & 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 the moment the nationwide Topic Matter Knowledgeable for Early Childhood at Faculty Specialty, the place she helps gross sales, advertising, and merchandising within the early childhood class. She additionally offers 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 neighborhood companions to enhance youngster well being by way of bodily exercise and vitamin training initiatives. She makes a speciality of bodily training product improvement and funding methods for youngster 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 Training, Well being, and Wellness at Faculty Specialty.
