Exploring Beautiful Stuff: Loose Parts, Nature, and Art in Your ECE Classroom, by Cathy Weisman Topal

  • Producer: Fran Simon, M.Ed and Early Childhood Investigations Webinars
  • Presenters: Cathy Weisman Topal
  • Credit: 2 training hours / 0.2 CEUs
  • Audience: Early Childhood Educators

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Learning Outcomes

  • Students will be inspired to pay more attention to students, carry a notebook to write down direct quotes, and photograph your children at key moments of discovery and interaction.
  • Students will recognize new strategies for preparing spaces and materials for exploration.
  • Students will understand strategies to introduce explorations of crayons, scissors, clay, markers to explore a theme – such as insects – by moving between art materials and processes.
  • Students will recognize how to encourage children to discuss their work and intentions in order to build classroom community and foster respect for one another’s unique ideas and ways of working.
  • Students will prepare to use an investigative, exploratory approach to encountering artist’s tools, materials, and ways of working.

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