pedagogical thoughts
what does it mean to teach and learn at the idea school?
How important is play to you? To us, it’s a very big deal. In fact, the most enriching moments at the IDEA school happen during our unstructured play times.
Here is a bite sized video that highlights the importance of play narrated by psychologist Peter Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoE480mzrk0 These five principles of self-directed learning are familiar to the families at IDEA school. They are at the core of what we are trying to accomplish in our play-based kindergarten. If you have a little larger appetite for thinking about play today, I recommend you listen to the fuller version from Peter Grey’s TED talk. This one would be nice to listen to while folding two baskets of laundry or fixing a flat tire on your bike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg-GEzM7iTk How do these ideas jibe with your experience of learning and of school? How did you form your identity as a learner? Was it in opposition to schools or in harmony with them? I think the most important thing we can communicate to our students though the structure of our day is that we trust their curiosity to motivate their exploration.
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