Posts Tagged ‘play-based learning’
The Week of the Young Child: Celebrating Early Childhood Education
by Heather Singer and Gretchen Paul How Renbrook School Celebrates the Week of the Young Child Each spring, Renbrook’s Beginning School celebrates the Week of the Young Child, a joyful and engaging tradition that honors our youngest learners, their teachers, and their families. Grounded in hands-on experiences and purposeful play, the week reflects the very…
Read MoreThe Benefits of Play-Based Learning
Renbrook Beginning School Celebrates Global School Play Day The Beginning School at Renbrook embraces a play-based learning approach that encourages children, in partnership with teachers, to make discoveries about themselves and the world around them. Play is essential as children learn to socialize, communicate, make choices, show initiative, collaborate, observe, problem-solve, and ask questions. While…
Read MoreFacilitating Play, Assessing Learning, and Planning for Future Instruction
Renbrook’s commitment to play-based learning is based on the research that learning happens best when students are engaged in what they are doing; choice and the opportunity to direct their learning fuels this engagement.
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