ED 304:
EdPsyc and Development

One of the core things I believe--and something that I believe is backed by the psychology research evidence--is that protecting kids from harm is not as beneficial as teaching them resilience--or as Bandit puts it, "it's a good thing you're tough."

You want to talk about Albert Bandura and modeling? Watch this instead. You'll get it pretty quick.

By the way, the modeling isn't mom modeling for Bluey and Bingo. It's Bluey (the show) modeling for parents.

Every semester one of my favorite activities is to have students write about what they've learned in this class (checkmarks mean multiple people felt this way). Entries for this class include "importance of play," "parenting styles matter," "be skeptical," "we need time to grow," and "belonging." 

One note that said "Bluey teaches great life lessons." If that's all they learn, let's be honest, I win.

Note that this is only from the first quarter of the class: unit 1 is about child development and parenting. Then we get into motivation and management for the second unit, cognition for unit 3, and unit 4 is entitled "toward a better psychology."

The Textbook!
In this class, we write our own textbook, Waldorf style. See the video above for an explanation.