The Schoolyard Podcast S2, Ep2: The Energy of Play

Remodeling Lecture rooms with Play-based Studying

Within the second episode of the season, host Nancy Chung sits down with two material consultants from Faculty Specialty: Kathy Descamps, an skilled in bodily schooling, well being, and wellness, and returning visitor Jennifer Fernandez in early childhood.

Nancy talks to Kathy and Jennifer concerning the energy of play-based studying and its influence on pupil engagement, social abilities, and cognitive growth throughout all age teams.

The episode showcases the assorted types of play-based studying, from exploratory play to structured video games. Play-based studying is introduced not simply as a instructing technique however as a elementary method to actively participating college students in making sense of the world round them.

They discuss how play is vital in nurturing abilities for kids’s future success. Jennifer quotes Fred Rogers, who noticed, “Play is commonly talked about as if it had been a aid from severe studying. However for kids, play is severe studying. Play is de facto the work of childhood.”

The dialogue additionally explores the evolution of play-based studying from early childhood via highschool. Kathy and Jennifer spotlight how structured recess and bodily actions foster wholesome habits and enrich social interactions.

Listeners obtain sensible recommendation on methods to weave play-based methods into lecture rooms, no matter grade degree. Our skilled friends share artistic examples of play actions, emphasizing the advantages of peer instructing and inclusion.

Play is a approach to help youngsters’s wholesome growth and create optimistic motion alternatives that may have a long-lasting influence on their bodily exercise ranges into adolescence and maturity.

Kathy Descamps

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Jennifer Fernandez

Jennifer has over 30 years of expertise in schooling. She has a BA in Elementary Training & Spanish and a Grasp’s in Bilingual Training. She has taught PreK4-2nd grade typically & bilingual/twin language settings in Texas, Minnesota, and Mexico Metropolis. Jennifer was knowledgeable studying specialist for PreK4SA in San Antonio for seven years. She is presently the nationwide Topic Matter Skilled for Early Childhood at Faculty Specialty, the place she helps gross sales, advertising and marketing, and merchandising within the early childhood class. She additionally gives skilled growth and presents at state and nationwide early childhood conferences nationwide.

Kathy Descamps

Kathy has 30 years of expertise working with college methods and group companions to enhance little one well being via bodily exercise and vitamin schooling initiatives. She focuses on bodily schooling product growth and funding methods for little one well being and wellness programming. She has additionally offered skilled growth to hundreds of bodily exercise trainees all through the US and internationally. Kathy is the Topic Matter Skilled for Bodily Training, Well being, and Wellness at Faculty Specialty.