Wally's Stories

摘要: Teachers are often taught that young children incapable of logical thought. Prone to fantasy and unruffled by inconsistency, preschool frequently baffled the first lessons early schooling. Trained gently resist child's illogic, teachers sometimes create just incomprehension anxiety they mean avoid. In Wally's Stories, Vivian Paley shows none this need be so. Stories is itself a story: story evolution kindergarten classroom in which learned stop fighting childish instead make use it stimulate very best brand thinking her five year-olds can muster. also lie at heart classroom: stories told one children, then transcribed teacher, acted out class dramatic productions their own design. course creating world, five-year-olds capable thought language far advance what accomplish traditional exercises. The children's become vehicle explain themselves teacher another. Together, develop an unusual environment, literate, based on rules fairness, friendship, fantasy. Paley's book as refreshing teaching method. A new kind about classroom.