Tom Bedard
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- "FLIGHTS OF WHIMSY"
- abc does... a blog!
- Abundant Life Children
- Atelierista: stories from a studio
- Aunt Annie's Childcare
- Blog - Meaning Matters
- Brick by Brick
- Building Boys
- Cadwell Collaborative
- Child's Play Music
- Creative STAR Learning | I'm a teacher, get me OUTSIDE here!
- Debi Keyte-Hartland
- Designing Early Childhood Australia
- Early Years: Nick
- Education Post
- Enabling Environments
- Explore Inspire EC
- Exploring the Outdoor Classroom
- Extraordinary Classroom
- Fiddlehouse Dad
- Floor Pie
- Growing Inch By Inch
- Home
- Inside the secret garden
- inspired by play | Inquiry-based Learning / Outdoor Learning / All Things Play
- Interaction Imagination
- irresistible ideas for play based learning
- Janet Lansbury
- Learning for Life
- let the children play
- Marla McLean, Atelierista
- Moving Smart
- Mr Rad's Neighborhood
- Ms. Amy's Blog @Child Central Station
- Museum Notes
- NurtureStore
- Opal School Blog
- Our Thinking Spot
- Papa Green Bean
- Passionately Curious Educators: Connecting Lifelong Learners
- play based inquiry
- Play Empowers
- Play-Based Classroom
- playscapes
- Pre-school Play
- Precious Childhood
- Reflections Nursery and Forest School
- Rethinking Childhood
- Rick Ackerly
- small wonders
- StrongStart
- Takoma Park Cooperative Nursery School
- Talking Math with Your Kids
- Teach Preschool
- Teacher Tom
- Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds
- Technology Rich Inquiry Based Research
- Tessa Rose Natural Playspaces Blogspot
- The Day Nursery Indianapolis Early Edition
- Twin Cities Urban Nature
- Under 3 Roofs
- Videatives Blog | Videatives Views
- Wide Eyes and Wonder
- Yong Zhao
- zella said purple
- Zen Habits
Gender | Male |
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Industry | Education |
Occupation | Early Childhood Teacher |
Location | St. Paul, Minnesota, United States |
Introduction | Early childhood education has been my life for over 40 years. I have taught all age groups from infants to 5-year-olds. I was a director for five years in the 1980s, but I returned to the classroom 22 years ago. My passion is watching the ways children explore and discover their world. In the classroom, everything starts with the reciprocal relationships between adults and children and between the children themselves. With that in mind, I plan and set up activities. But that is just the beginning. What actually happens is a flow that includes my efforts to invite, respond and support children's interface with those activities and with others in the room. Oh yeh, and along the way, the children change the activities to suit their own inventiveness and creativity. Now the processes become reciprocal with the children doing the inviting, responding and supporting. Young children are the best learners and teachers. I am truly fortunate to be a part of their journey. |