I love this! Love the quote, love the blog, love this author. As a teacher, I do not use the term share and rarely regulate taking of turns. Rather, I see the children as generous and kind and willingly taking turns of their own accord. How do they do that? One of the things I do do as a teacher is encourage the child who wants to use something to ask to use it when the child who has it is done. If a child knows another child is waiting, he will almost always pass it on when he decides he is done. In this case, both children feel a sense of agency. More importantly, the child with the toy is given a chance to be generous and the child who wants the toy learns that by waiting, he can get it with little or no conflict. tomsensori.blogspot/2014/09/duplo-ramp-and-pump.html
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 21:14:41 +0000