| Research
shows students grasp concepts and remember more when they get
out of their seats and move through a lesson. Yet many students
and teachers still sit behind heavy desks, increasingly weighed
down by the latest state standards. If only teachers had a
practical resource for teaching mandated curriculum in a dynamic
way that involves all their students and creates a joyous,
inclusive classroom environment, while at the same time nailing
those state standards. Now they do.
Learning
On Their Feet, A Sourcebook for Kinesthetic Learning Across the
Curriculum, K-8, from Discover Writing
Press, by Carol Glynn, provides teachers with teacher friendly,
kid tested strategies, game structures, and hundreds of specific
curriculum based kinesthetic and dramatic lessons for grades K-8
in science, math, reading and social studies. Beginning with
simple game structures, or "ingredient games" Carol
Glynn shows teachers how to adapt their lessons into dynamic
learning experiences that promote teamwork, cooperation,
listening, and curriculum comprehension, while keeping the chaos
to a minimum. Her specific lessons include: phonemic awareness,
dramatizing the parts of a tree, personifying gods and
goddesses, story parts, teaching math and history facts the fun
way, the solar system, digestion and the circulatory system,
place value, transitional phrases, prime numbers and much, much
more!.
"Our
Connecticut Mastery Test Scores have continued to rise since
Carol’s ideas have become part of our writing curriculum. I
can’t think of a better person to be impacting education and
children’s lives. Her ideas are a MUST for all teachers who
want to meet the state standards while making their classrooms
engaging, exciting, challenging and fun." says Karen
Loiselle, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Professional
Development, Colchester Public Schools.
The
kinesthetic approach to teaching allows teachers to spend their
energy teaching the lesson instead of rounding up their students
attention, to teach heterogeneous groups while reaching every
student, and to level the playing field by celebrating the
students with different strengths.
Carol
Glynn is a writer, performer, and teaching artist. She works
with students K-12 in dozens of classrooms each year and is a
sought- after keynote speaker. Her extensive work with the Penny
Ante Theater, Creative Arts Parenting programs, STAR (Support
Those At Risk - Teens) Prevention Players and other social
organizations has led her to performing and teaching in places
as diverse as New York City’s Lincoln Center for the
Performing Arts and the Connecticut State Prison System. She
currently conducts workshops and presents keynote performances
nationwide. She lives with her family in Niantic, Connecticut. |
