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12 February 2010

You Were Once A Baby

Am I reading too much into this, or is it actually good advice? I may be swayed by the fact that I watched this about 100 times as a child. Enjoy!

07 February 2010

Babies

This has been shared by others, but I have to put it here, too. I am not ashamed to say that I cry when I watch the trailer. I'm not sure why, but I do. It might be the Sufjan Stevens song.

I'm hoping this will be playing somewhere in Brussels...but it will at least be in the states in April.

13 January 2010

As is appropriate, my coursework at Erikson in human development is starting with infancy. Although I took human development courses as an undergraduate, I feel like I am really learning new things here.

One thing that is striking me is how little I have worked with infants. It never came up in my student teaching; and the youngest children I had the opportunity to work with were one-year-olds at the 65th Street Co-op in Seattle - and that was only 90 minutes per week.

There is something fascinating about how infants discover their world - through sensory experiences and through the objects and people around them - and I hope to find the opportunity to work with infants in the future. So many of the wonderful teachers who are writing online now are working with three-year-olds and up. I would love to be reading writing by teachers who are infant teachers. Is there such a thing happening right now? Do you know a fabulous infant teacher who would be willing to share, even just with my curious mind? Send them my way if you do!

Sharing online is such a valuable resource - I hope you agree.