EDUCATIONAL INFLUENCERS
These are not cellists. However, these the people that excite me most about teaching these days. They are educational researchers, psychologists, early childhood specialists, authors, parents, and everyday people. I have included only one or two links for brevity, but each person has a whole canon of work that is incredible. There are many other people who have positively influenced my teaching, but for simplicity, I'll keep it at these.
Dr. Richard Ryan & Dr. Edward Deci
Researchers on Motivation
Co-Developers of Self-Determination Theory
Dr. Ryan & Dr. Deci and many other scientists have an incredible breadth of research and articles on the SDT website linked above
Peter Gray
Researcher in Psychology
Psychology Today blog series: Freedom to Learn
Blog post: Why Kids are Suffering
Book: Free to Learn
Sugata Mitra
Educational Theorist, Computer Scientist
TED Talk: Kids Can Teach Themselves
TED Talk: The Child-Driven Education
Ken Robinson
Speaker and Advisor on Arts Education
TED Talk: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
TED Talk Playlist: Ten Talks on Education
Janet Lansbury
Parent Educator, RIE Parenting
Toshiro Kanamori
4th Grade Teacher - Kanazawa, Japan
Documentary:
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van der Vorm, N., Toshiro Kanamori, the Japanese Primary School Teacher from the Movie 'Children Full of Life."
We can have our children complete Social-Emotional Learning units at school, or we can live lives full of emotions together with them.