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Teaching With The Body In Mind

Teaching With The Body In Mind

Each week, Mike, Tom, Ross, and Joey reflect on the connection between moving and thinking. The discussions remind us that teachers should be supporting children"s bodies as well as their minds.

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45:14

TWTBIM_0300 Episode 300!

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/08/27

For our 300th episode celebration, we answer listener questions (and a few of our own). Learn about Mike practicing magic on his baby sister, Tom's three years in Hungary, Joey's run-ins with head lice, and Ross's dreams of being a professional skateboarder.

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24:28

TWBIM_0299 The Trouble with Development

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/08/20

Tom invites us to take a closer look at what we mean when we talk broadly about "development." Developmental expectations can easily transform into standards of performance. What is the impact on the individual child? Are we trying to make all kids the same?

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23:16

TWTBIM_0298 The Trouble With Movement

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/08/13

The trouble is that kids get in trouble for moving. Perhaps the problem comes from us due to poorly designed spaces and unreasonable expectations.

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22:43

TWTBIM_0297 They Know What They Need

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/08/06

At the top of a steep and slippery hill, Joey had the chance to reflect on how children know what they need even if they can't always say it. When you provide opportunties to do what they need, they will show you how capable they are. It all makes Mike think of Ernest Hemingway.

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22:23

TWTBIM_0296 Teaching Fails

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/07/30

Mike invites the group to shares stories from the classroom when things did not go to plan. Listen to find out more about preschool runaways, decapitated bears, and gathering coins to buy "whiskey."

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21:06

TWTBIM_0295 Foraging

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/07/23

With summer in full swing, Joey wants to talk aboout children's foraging for berries and other tasty things. When we trust children's ability to meet their self-care needs in foraging, we can see how capable and competent they are. It's a whole body and mind practice as children rely on their executive function skills and experience immersive sensory input. Tom's grandchildren have been teaching him what to look for on neighborhood walks. Mike knows that tasty plants can be found even in urban

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21:53

TWTBIM_0294 Humans Love to Spin

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/07/16

Tom had some time to catch up on his reading while he was away. He's back and ready to talk about spinning and the importance of vestibular development. Children find all kinds of ways to spin, such as twirling, rolling, somersaulting, and doing cartwheels. All this spinning is essential to developing the vesitibular system and--the hardest task of all--the ability to sit still. To support this growth, we need to provide spaces where children can spin and calibrate their senses. (Tom ran out of time

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22:12

ENCORE Episode: Run With It

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/07/09

Children need to run. It's a way for them to express joy and excitement, feel powerful, tap into energy, and explore their environment. Since children need to run--and love to run--adults should want them to run. How can we provide for this basic need and source of joy for children? (Originally released April 2022)

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20:39

TWTBIM_0293 The Perfect Episode

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/07/02

Joey returns to Ross's favorite theme of disappointment, failure, and the illusion of perfection. If children are always told that they are correct, then everyone else must be wrong. The implications are not great in a world where everyone makes mistakes.

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24:21

TWTBIM_0292 On Ramp to Play

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/06/25

Sometimes children are overwhelmed by choices and may struggle to get going in very open-ended, play based settings. What is the adult's role? Mike sees adults as the bridge to engagement. This bridge can lead to a highway where children need help navigating the on ramp to play. From there, children need to learn the rules of the road. We promise, it's not all metaphor as we talk about strategies for supporting children in connecting through play.

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21:30

TWTBIM_0291 Long Ago Kid

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/06/18

Ross wants to talk about navigating transitions. As the school year comes to a close, we often notice a ramp up in children's (and adults') level of dysregulation. How do we support children and teach the skills for managing the many inevitable changes of life? We talk about what is staying the same alongside what will be different...we practice rituals for saying goodbye...we involve children in concrete actions, such as cleaning, giving mementos...we engage in rituals that encourage reflection and

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17:37

Encore Episode: Learning from Silence

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/06/04

While we're on a brief recording break, enjoy this episode from the archive: Inspired by Stephen J. Smith from his book Risk and Our Pedagogical Relation to Children, Tom asks the group to consider the idea of silently observing children's movements as "reading their actions as they're being written." What more would we learn about children if we watch in silence and listen instead of always talking? (recorded November 2018)

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19:09

TWTBIM_0290 Connection

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/05/28

Mike leads us into a discussion about the importance of connection. Social connection is how children get through the hard things...Connections build resilience...Children are always looking for connection...All play is social and all learning is social...We're wired to learn from the group so why is assessment still tied to individual achievements...Shout outs to: Vygotsky, Gilligan and Usain Bolt...The most important job of teachers is to be there.

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20:00

TWTBIM_0289 Inner Strength

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/05/21

Joey wants to talk about the idea of emotional strength. How do we support children in building inner strength without making assumptions about what they can handle? Mike reminds us that stress--in the right amount--supports growth. Tom shares the experiences of listening to children and being an advocate for their feelings. We need to watch out for accidentally giving the message that being "strong" means you don't feel sadness. Ross advocates for expanding children's (and everyone's) emotional

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21:42

TWTBIM_0288 Who Wins?

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/05/14

What is lost when adults let children win at all the games? Ross worries that it gives children the false sense that they can never lose. How do you keep games fun when the skill set is mismatched?... Do kids know what is happening when adults let them win?... Letting children win can be a form of power reversal play... It can be disrespectful when adults check out of the play and let children win... There is a level of challenge needed to make a game fun, motiviating, and to increase your skill

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19:47

TWTBIM_0287 Piles and piles

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/05/07

Monkey piles, piggy piles, "pile on"--Tom has noticed that children often pile up together. This physical play provides close contact and a little unpredictability. What other needs are met in piling up?

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11:23

TWTBIM_0286 Environment (continued)

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/04/30

The conversation about environment wasn't quite finished. Joey, Mike and Tom continue to work their way through the jargon in search of more practical and meaningful language.

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20:15

TWTBIM_0285 The Environment is Not a Blank Canvas

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/04/23

Mike invites us to unpack the term environment as it is used in the field of early childhood. Does emphasis on "creating the environment" overlook the fact that you are in a specific place that already exists? Does it take into account the children and people who inhabit the space? How can we avoid fighting against the place we are in?

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20:15

TWBIM_0284 Give Them Space

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/04/16

How can we give children chances to explore space (and the feeling of having a lot of it)? Spending time outdoors is one of the best ways. Inside, perhaps children can experience a feeling of being in a separate space under a table. Spending time alone in an empty classroom can also tap into an expansive feeling. As Tom sums it up, it is an awesome experience "exist in the expanse."

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21:40

TWTBIM_0283 Cooperative Games

Teaching With The Body In Mind ·

2024/04/09

Competition has been ramping up in Ross's class. Children compete over who gets to the door first and even who can complete a puzzle the fastest! The introduction of cooperative games has helped to change the tone. The group gets thinking about some of their favorite large motor cooperative play activities--freeze ball, bridge jumps, building with two-person planks--and breaks down some of the key components to include when inventing new cooperative games.

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