262. Teaching Through Play
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Play isn’t a reward for learning, it is the learning. In this episode, we dig into the puritanical reflex to be suspicious of anything fun, and rebuke it with developmental science and lived experience. We give ideas on how to create playful conditions for deep, sustainable learning for your kids and even yourself.
We also break down how to evaluate homeschool learning you’re already doing: How does it look like play? How are you capitalizing on tools, clothing, kinesthetic energy, excitement, and engagement? Does the skill being honed lead to something the kids actually want to do?
If you’re feeling stuck and bored with your homeschooling, or if your kids are feeling that way, this is the episode for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Looking for a great math program? |
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| 0:51.7 | Hello, friends. Welcome to the Brave Writer podcast. I'm Melissa Wiley, Julie Bogart's co-host. Today, we're excited to share with you Julie's talk about the importance of play and how play fosters learning. This is a rich and juicy exploration of the critical role of play in your children's education. |
| 1:13.6 | Julie also digs into what it means to be a lifelong learner and how you are using play right now in your own life to learn, |
| 1:21.6 | and you may not even realize it. So here's Julie. Enjoy. Welcome. Tonight, tonight we're going to talk about the role |
| 1:34.5 | of play in education. And I want us to begin first by just noticing the feeling you have around the word play. So if you would in chat, when you hear |
| 1:49.1 | somebody say, kids should play, or learning can happen through play, pause for a moment, |
| 1:56.9 | check in with yourself and give me a true reaction to that phrase. Learning can happen through play. |
| 2:04.4 | Let me hear what you have to say. How? Great question, Catherine. Kathleen, 100% agrees. So does Stacey. |
| 2:13.8 | I may not have done much right, but I've done that. Play is how we learn as kids and adults. I need more play in my life. Play is critical. Absolutely, but what about older kids? I agree, but how much. These are wonderful questions. I'll be honest. Play is hard for me to engage in. I will tell you something that happened to me and And make sure you select everyone in the blue bubble |
| 2:35.7 | so we can all read your amazing comments. Otherwise, it just goes to me and Farsana. One of the things |
| 2:42.5 | that I remember as a very vivid memory of early childhood with my children, I think I had three |
| 2:48.4 | kids under five at that point. And I remember vividly sitting on the |
| 2:52.4 | floor playing with the same toys that my children have been playing with, right? Because I had three |
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