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The slow curriculum movement: Coconstructing powerful learning experiences with infants and toddlers
Program Code:
207743
Date:
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Time:
8:00 AM to 9:30 AM
EST
SPEAKER
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Kim Ripley has been teaching infants and toddlers for the last 17 years, including work at the Nonotuck Community School, and at the Skinner Lab School at the University of Massachusetts. This is Kim’s 10th year co-teaching at the Hampshire College Early Learning Center in the infant room. Kim is endlessly fascinated by the sense of self with which each baby enters our community.
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Ben Mardell,
Lesley University, Project Zero, Harvard University
Ben Mardell has taught in early childhood classrooms for more than 15 years. Currently, he is the Program Director for Early Childhood Education at Lesley College. He also works at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on the Making Learning Visible Project, collaboration with the Municipal Infant-toddler Centers and Preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. The author of From Basketball to the Beatles: In Search of Compelling Early Childhood Curriculum (Heinemann, 1999), Ben is also a speaker in Heinemann's Professional Development programs.
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Description
Infant and toddler curriculum is not something to do to children, but with children. Powerful learning experiences emerge over time when teachers closely observe and document children’s play, relationships and interests, co-constructing activities with their charges. Grounded in a concrete classroom example (presented, in part, though video), this session describes specific teaching practices that help teachers create responsive and meaningful curriculum.