Meredith W. Burton

Teaching, Learning, and Living
 
Meredith W. Burton
Education, Professional

Screen Time for Young Children…?

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“A prudent society controls its own ‘infatuation’ with progress when planning for its young”  ~Jane Healy Okay.  I am weighing in on a subject that is very controversial and yet important to education and parenting today: Screen time.  This term refers to any type of interaction with television, computers, iPhones, …

Education

The Power of Play in Project Work

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The Project Approach is an inquiry-based, developmentally appropriate  approach to teaching and learning about real-world topics.  The children help develop the focus of a project based on their interests and questions they have related to the topic.  My K4-K5 multi-age class is currently studying bald eagles.  Our class name this …