Produced for public television and carried by over 150 stations nationwide, our programs have been designed to assist parents and educators in guiding children to become motivated and thoughtful learners. Now available for purchase — each with its own companion viewing guide — these programs encourage a lifelong interest in literacy, creativity, the environment, ethics... and learning itself.
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When Learning Comes Naturally
How can children be encouraged to make a lasting connection to nature?
WHEN LEARNING COMES NATURALLY profiles the efforts of four schools in New York, California and New Jersey to introduce children to the natural world and to involve them — through outdoor play, class activities, and their own creative work — in a process of outdoor discovery.
Beyond the immediate benefits to child development that come with exploration and improvisational learning, the program documents how meaningful time spent outdoors can cultivate in children a permanent caring for the natural world — a crucial ethic of environmental responsibility.
The program will premiere on public television September 1, timed for the beginning of the new school year.
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Values go to School suggests that ethical issues are inseparable from the life of the classroom and the school. Documenting classroom life from kindergarten through high school, this program observes educators who have made values, a part of their curriculum. But what kinds of values do we want to embrace and foster?
How do children come to literacy? FROM PICTURES TO WORDS represents the view that encouraging young children to make pictures to invent their own graphic representations sets the literacy process in motion. Recent research in psychology and education indicates that children gain experience with written language by being read to...
Increasing pressures to begin formal academic work in the preschool years and a misunderstanding of the nature of play are diminishing the time and attention given to creative play in the classroom and at home an alarming development, according to many child development professionals. WHEN A CHILD PRETENDS represents the view...
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