Teaching With The Body In Mind

Teaching With The Body In Mind


Latest Episodes

TWTBIM_0132 Home Schedule
March 31, 2020

A conversation about finding balance in your family schedule. How can families support young children's (and everyone's) need for routine and predictability when much of the structure of our lives has been disrupted?  In early childhood...

TWTBIM_0131 Moving to Learn at Home
March 24, 2020

The group shares ideas for how families can support children's need to move while cooped up at home.  What house rules might need to be suspended?  What  creative ways can we find to repurpose spaces and materials? How can we support...

TWTBIM_0130 Helping
March 17, 2020

We'd all like a little help sometimes so why do we tell children, "I'm not going to help you because I know you can do it yourself?" How do we balance supporting children's sense of autonomy and assuring them that someone is going to take care of...

TWTBIM_0129 Tortoise and the Hare
March 10, 2020

Ross has been thinking about adults' responses to speed and the duality of how we tell children "hurry, hurry" one minute and "slow down" the next.  Are we reflecting on why and when we correct children for their rate of speed? Tom worries that...

TWTBIM_0128 Motivation is the Start
March 03, 2020

Mike is excited to share what he's been learning from textbooks as he thinks about our approach to motor development in young children.  In developing a motor skill, motivation is step one!  Many adults are missing the mark when expecting...

TWTBIM_0127 Embodiment
February 25, 2020

Joey wants to talk about how children use their bodies to support symbolic thinking as they create their worlds through play. Early childhood classrooms are full of crawling cats, roaring dragons, and zooming race cars.  How does children's play...

TWTBIM_0126 Big Motor, Small Motor
February 18, 2020

Mike wants to take a closer look at the distinction between gross motor and fine motor skills.  Can they be considered in isolation or are they intertwined?  Are fine motor skills given preferential treatment in our educational system while...

TWTBIM_0125 The Minnesota Goodbye
February 11, 2020

Part 2 of the conversation with Lisa Murphy touches on: teaching from a place of fear vs. confidence, the benefits of self-awareness for practitioners, the need for control (of children and of our own feelings), coming from a strength-based vs....

TWTBIM_0124 Lisa Murphy
February 04, 2020

Lisa Murphy joins the group for a conversation centered around the ideas in her new book, "Lisa Murphy on Being Child Centered."  Does our teaching practice match our stated values? If you pause to ask reflective questions, will you discover a...

TWTBIM_ 0123 Whole Body Math: Part 2
January 28, 2020

Part 2 of a conversation about the the body as a "thinking tool" for math concepts.  Tom reminds us that math is more than just counting.  Before children are ready and able to use the symbols and language of mathematics, their early...