A three-year-old is not half a six-year-old. They're three.

"Human resources are like natural resources: they're often buried deep.  You have to go looking for them - they're not just lying around on the surface. You have to create the circumstances where they show themselves."  - Sir Ken Robinson

If you don't go to the TED website often, you should.  I can't exactly afford to go to one of the conferences, even though next year's The Rediscovery of Wonder conference sounds right up my alley.

Making Over Math Class

This is a really nice TED talk about mathematical problem solving, and bringing the math back to the students rather than opening a textbook and solving the sample problems.  This may not be early childhood education per se, but this is where the children we teach will be in 10 to 12 years, right?

I'm inspired by this because many of us have conversations about child centered curriculum in which the end result is the child being a member of different communities.  The way that Dan Meyer talks, it sounds like there are teachers of older children who are invested in the same thing.

Dan Meyer also blogs here.

All Kinds of Minds

An inspiring talk by Temple Grandin.  How can we support all kinds of minds?

Do schools kill creativity?

A wonderful talk by Sir Ken Robinson.



"All children are born artists. The problem is to remain an artist as we grow up." -- Picasso