Teaching for Joy

Catalog description

Teaching for Joy: Play, Movement, and the Imagination in the Elementary Classroom is organized to provide advanced candidates with explorations into the research and practices that support playful learning as a pedagogical choice. Through play, students build classroom communities, explore real and imagined scenarios, nurture cross-cultural friendships, cultivate their curiosity, and take educative risks. Together, candidates will design PK-5 environments with playful learning so that PK-5th graders leave elementary school ready to use their creativity, imagination, and problem-solving abilities to meet and exceed the college and career readiness markers for academic and professional achievement throughout their lives. In addition to reading materials, this course also has a required Play Kit component that students will need to assemble themselves. A short checklist of items will be provided. Be prepared to play.