Blog Resources Week 6

This week we were asked to research a new area of our organizations website. I have been researching the website http://www.zerotothree.org/. I searched all over the place for where links outside of the organizations information.  I wasn’t successful at finding any of those options.  I did find a very interesting section though.  Under the About Us tab on the website, then under funded projects, under parenting resources, under podcasts.  This organization has secured funding to a very interesting option for parents.  They have a number of podcasts by much respected Early Childhood specialists available, called Little Kids, Big Questions. 
 

I found this to be a very interesting option on this site.  I listened to a podcast with Alison Gopnik whom we have heard in our courses.  I think this is a wonderful option to have available for parents to be able to learn great information that is research based. Plus the information that they discuss is done in a way that is easy to understand and explained so that a lay person will understand. 
While surfing this site I was able to find a little information on equity.  There were a few links to articles about how to make things equitable and how it is important to have a program that is equitable. 
 

This week I really continued to grow my passion for having play incorporated into the classroom.  I think that it is so easy to be pressured into cutting this in our schools.  While listening to Alison Gopnik I just felt validated because it seems that in schools we are forgetting the things that are so very important because we are being pressured from the top down to perform at a curtain pace and level.  I know that the pendulum always swings back in education, but I think that instead of having a swinging pendulum we need something more like a balance scale.  We need to focus on being balanced between academics and the rest of the child’s education.   There is more to our lives than the MAP test and our students need to able to understand and apply these skills.