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| The Child's Way into Literacy: A New Look at Scribbling and Drawing Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:28 AM PDT | Two books provide a new way to look at parenting and education in early childhood. "Saving Literacy" is designed for teachers, and "HandMade Marks" is designed for parents, including homeschooling parents. Both books combine developmental benchmarks, evaluation tools, hands-on exercises, and research questions, while also addressing the issues of television, computer-use, and childhood autism. A brain-based theory and practice place children's spontaneous marks at the heart of language learning and healthy mental/emotional development. Amherst, MA (PRWEB) April 7, 2010 -- Two books provide a new way to look at parenting and education in early childhood. "Saving Literacy" is designed for teachers, and "HandMade Marks" is designed for parents, including homeschooling parents. Both books combine developmental benchmarks, evaluation tools, hands-on exercises, and research questions, while also addressing the issues of television, computer-use, and childhood autism. A brain-based theory and practice place children's spontaneous marks at the heart of language learning and healthy mental/emotional development. Dr. Susan Rich Sheridan has devoted twenty-five years to teaching and researching a method called Drawing/Writing, working with students, teachers and administrators from the pre-school through the college levels. By taking mark-making back to its earliest beginnings in scribbling, Dr. Sheridan proposes a Scribbling/Talking/Drawing/Writing program for parents. Key to the success of this program is re-establishing one-one-one relationships between parents and children around marks and words, without the interference of the television or the computer. By bringing language learning in its broadest sense "back home", Dr. Sheridan believes that many early childhood delays and deficits can be prevented or reversed, including hyperactivity, attention deficits, emotional deficits, delayed speech, and learning disabilities connected with reading and writing. Her teaching and research support the positive effect of strongly mentored (or parented!) scribbling and drawing on the mental/emotional unfolding of the child as a language-learner. Because of increasing numbers of children with emotional, attentional, and language-based issues, including autism, Dr. Sheridan believes that a change in parenting and early education is necessary, away from the pervasive use of electronic technology with and around young children, back toward face-to-face relationships organized around the child's spontaneous and important behavior, which we call scribbling and drawing. Pictures and words get into children's brains through their eyes and hands. Dr. Sheridan also proposes that the basic shapes and patterns on which all pictures and words depend are already embedded in the neural architecture of the child's brain. Scribbling and drawing both access and organize these special brain patterns for the exciting and important human enterprise we call literacy! Go to Dr. Sheridan's web site to read her papers, access free lesson plans, and link with her books about marks and meaning and the development of the human mind. ### Post Comment: Bookmark - Del.icio.us | Furl It | Technorati | Ask | MyWeb | Propeller | Live Bookmarks | Newsvine | TailRank | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Stumbleupon | Google Bookmarks | Sphere | Blink It | Spurl Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| The Child's Way into Literacy: A New Look at Scribbling and Drawing Posted: 07 Apr 2010 12:05 AM PDT Two books provide a new way to look at parenting and education in early childhood. "Saving Literacy" is designed for teachers, and "HandMade Marks" is designed for parents, including homeschooling parents. Both books combine developmental benchmarks, evaluation tools, hands-on exercises, and research questions, while also addressing the issues of television, computer-use, and childhood autism. A brain-based theory and practice place children's spontaneous marks at the heart of language learning and healthy mental/emotional development. (PRWEB) April 7, 2010 -- Two books provide a new way to look at parenting and education in early childhood. "Saving Literacy" is designed for teachers, and "HandMade Marks" is designed for parents, including homeschooling parents. Both books combine developmental benchmarks, evaluation tools, hands-on exercises, and research questions, while also addressing the issues of television, computer-use, and childhood autism. A brain-based theory and practice place children's spontaneous marks at the heart of language learning and healthy mental/emotional development. Dr. Susan Rich Sheridan has devoted twenty-five years to teaching and researching a method called Drawing/Writing, working with students, teachers and administrators from the pre-school through the college levels. By taking mark-making back to its earliest beginnings in scribbling, Dr. Sheridan proposes a Scribbling/Talking/Drawing/Writing program for parents. Key to the success of this program is re-establishing one-one-one relationships between parents and children around marks and words, without the interference of the television or the computer. By bringing language learning in its broadest sense "back home", Dr. Sheridan believes that many early childhood delays and deficits can be prevented or reversed, including hyperactivity, attention deficits, emotional deficits, delayed speech, and learning disabilities connected with reading and writing. Her teaching and research support the positive effect of strongly mentored (or parented!) scribbling and drawing on the mental/emotional unfolding of the child as a language-learner. Because of increasing numbers of children with emotional, attentional, and language-based issues, including autism, Dr. Sheridan believes that a change in parenting and early education is necessary, away from the pervasive use of electronic technology with and around young children, back toward face-to-face relationships organized around the child's spontaneous and important behavior, which we call scribbling and drawing. Pictures and words get into children's brains through their eyes and hands. Dr. Sheridan also proposes that the basic shapes and patterns on which all pictures and words depend are already embedded in the neural architecture of the child's brain. Scribbling and drawing both access and organize these special brain patterns for the exciting and important human enterprise we call literacy! Go to Dr. Sheridan's web site to read her papers, access free lesson plans, and link with her books about marks and meaning and the development of the human mind. ### Marks and Mind Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| Parents urge Medford to add charter school Posted: 07 Apr 2010 08:46 AM PDT Helen Smith believes she is suited to homeschool her three young children — in most subjects, that is. "There a few subjects like music, art and foreign languages that my husband and I would like to have help with," Smith said. "That's why we would like to see the Medford School District adopt a charter homeschool program." Smith was among several parents attending Tuesday's school board meeting who asked that the school district sponsor a public charter school for homeschoolers. Logos Charter School organizers want a K-12 school to be a resource center for parents across Southern Oregon. A group of parents submitted an application in January to found the charter school. The board could decide on the matter within two weeks, Medford School District Superintendant Phil Long said. "We still have some lingering questions that we need to address," Long said. "But it is very helpful to hear from the parents who have chosen to homeschool their children." Logos organizers hope to debut the school in the fall with up to 200 pupils. John VonDoloski, one of the organizers, told the board Tuesday that the school's online application as already gathered approximately 105 interested families. Smith, whose children range in age from 7 months to 9 years, said the flexibility of homeschooling allows her family to make trips to Nepal to work at the non-profit they established there. "You can't just leave for weeks in the middle of a normal school year," Smith said. "And, if we want to have school on the weekends we can." VonDoloski told the board families from as far away as Cave Junction have contacted Logos with the intention of joining the school. Under the Logos charter, students and their parents would continue to orchestrate their education at home but would be expected to meet weekly with a licensed teacher who would help plan and schedule lessons and monitor students' progress, VonDoloski said. Each teacher would have a caseload of 25 or fewer students. "If a group of students lived far away as in Cave Junction, our goal is to hire a teacher who lives in or near that location," VonDoloski said. Grants Pass resident Tami Blauser's children have had success in the public school system. Her daughter was a valedictorian at a Grants Pass High School in 2004, she said. But her 9-year-old son struggles with learning disabilities that keep from excelling in the public system. "He would benefit from the one-on-one attention from homeschooling," she said. "I believe (the Logos school) will be a beacon in our area." The curriculum would be based on state standards, and students would be required to take the same state and local academic assessments that other Medford pupils have to take, he said. On-site classes such as music or foreign languages could be made available based on student demand, VonDoloski said. Students would have a $1,000 voucher each year to use toward their education, VonDoloski said. They could use the money to rent a laptop from the charter school, take a music lesson or enroll in a community college class, for example. Jeff Shields has build a curriculum for his two homeschooled children over the years, but would enjoy having feedback from highly trained teachers and tutors the district could provide. "The district could provide materials and make available tests to make sure my kids are properly educated at home," Shields said. Logos is modeled after Visions and the Alliance Charter Academy in Oregon City near Portland, which offer similar services. There are about 1,000 registered homeschoolers in Jackson County, according to the Southern Oregon Education Service District. Students who graduate from the charter school would earn a regular diploma from the Medford district. The program would be open to all Oregon residents and would be free of charge. Under state charter school law, the school would receive 80 percent of the state's per-pupil funding amount, with the other 20 percent going to the Medford district. In exchange, the Medford district would provide some administrative services as well as oversight to ensure the school abides by its charter. For more information, call Joe VonDoloski at 989-370-5664. Reach reporter Chris Conrad at 541-776-4471; or e-mail cconrad@mailtribune.com. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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