Blooming Curious Edwina Cottino

Marcus Veerman is a playground designer, founder and CEO of a charity called Playground Ideas and designer and founder of the Nudel Kart, Nudel Pod and Nudel Rover, innovative open ended toys based on loose parts. These multilayered innovations allow children's creativity, problem solving, critical thinking and language skills not only to develop, but flourish. In this episode Marcus shares his amazing journey from providing children from impoverished backgrounds incredible opportunities for play and exploration to his latest development the Nudel Kart, which allows multifaceted skill development all neatly packaged in a highly sustainable loose part package making play, creativity, problem solving and language development easily accessible to children everywhere, and simultaneously meeting curriculum outcomes.Purchase Nudel products at https://nudel.shop/Find out all about the Nudel Kart at https://www.nudelkart.com/For more posts and articles about curiosity, learning and inquiry visit Ed's LessonsDid you enjoy this episode? Follow and subscribe to Blooming Curious and leave a review by going to the show page.Have a question? Send me an email at contact@edslessons.com

Today we welcome Dr Claire Warden, Nature Pedagogist, author, education consultant, entrepreneurial leader and founder of Auchlone, a multi award winning nature kindergarten in Scotland.We unpack what nature pedagogy is, and how educators can include it in their settings and teaching practice. We discuss the benefits of risk, and the importance of curiosity and fascination when it comes to sparking a love for learning in children.In addition Claire discusses the importance of observation and documentation when working with children and gives ideas on how to implement floor books for planning, guiding the line of inquiry, and documenting children's learning.To read how you can implement nature pedagogy in an urban environment go to https://edslessons.com/the-meaning-of-n…gogy-in-practice/Website: www.edslessons.comIf you would like to get in touch email me at contact@edslessons

So you're inspired to integrate inquiry-based learning into your existing lessons, but you 're struggling to know how to go about it. This episode will walk you through the process and give you some ideas of how you can integrate inquiry into your planning and everyday lessons.To make your life easier, download the planning sheet at https://resources.edslessons.com/integrating-inquiry-planning-sheetGet a detailed breakdown of how to start integrating inquiry into your existing lessons here Follow Jessica Vance at https://www.instagram.com/jess_vanceedu/website: www.edslessons.comSubscribe to Get Blooming Curious at https://resources.edslessons.com/getbloomingcurious

According to the latest Australian news reports, Australian children are performing terribly and the real culprit is the fact that teachers are not teaching using an explicit instruction model.In today's episode I explore very subtly (can you guess what it is?) what the issue might be, and exactly what it is we're trying to achieve if we are not using a whole repertoire of strategies. To listen to the episode on the website go to edslessons.com/bloomingcuriousLinks mentioned in the episode:https://explicitinstruction.org/download/sample-chapter.pdf an excerpt by Anita L Archer and Charles A Hughes from the publication Explicit Instruction and Efficient Teachinghttps://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1188027.pdf Teachers Taking up Explicit Instruction: The Impact of a Professional Development and Directive Instructional Coaching ModelTo get the free resource: go to https://resources.edslessons.com/how-to-encourage-natural-curiosity-in-childrenTo sign up to Get Blooming Curious, my weekly newsletter for curious educators, sign up at https://resources.edslessons.com/getbloomingcurious or at www.edslessons.comThanks for listening! If you like this episode, or indeed the whole show, please show your appreciation by following, sharing and leaving a review! 😎

You cannot expect children to be curious, if you yourself are not curious. In this episode Edwina gives you the tips and strategies you need to nurture your own curiosity so that you are better able to spot opportunities for nurturing it in the children you teach. Curiosity naturally leads to inquiry. Edwina demonstrates how the inquiry process is closely aligned to the strategies for nurturing your own curiosity and takes you through the step-by-step process for nurturing that natural curiosity in children and reawakening it in ourselves.Download your free e-Guide How to Nurture Natural Curiosity in Children at https://resources.edslessons.com/how-to-encourage-natural-curiosity-in-childrenExplore posts and resources at https://www.edslessons.comContact: contact@edslessons.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/edslessons/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edslessonsblog

In this episode two educators respond to the question, "What is your favourite strategy for engaging children and keeping them curious?"Both Veronica Green and April Zajko who are educational consultants and experienced early childhood educators, respond to this question with passion. Their commitment to children's learning is clear and unwavering.Read the blog post and the transcript of this episode at  https://edslessons.com/best-strategies-for-engaging-children-and-keeping-them-curious/Links to the eGuide are also in https://edslessons.com/best-strategies-for-engaging-children-and-keeping-them-curious/Veronica can be found at Cultivating Confidence and join her Facebook group is  All Things Early Years April Zajko can be found at April's Teaching Tree or join her Facebook group the Nature Inspired Teacher or follow April's Teaching TreeIf you would like to support Blooming Curious, and help it grow, then share it, follow, subscribe and write a review. This is really the only way this podcast can find it's way in front of more people.