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It’s time to question the continued hold of what I would call counterfeit crafts over our preschool curriculum (or is it our national psyche?). Their sham output serves dull and simplistic goals. But one reason preschool teachers still genuflect to the construction-paper-turkey god is that it takes very little time to finish such a product (unlike learning a proper craft, such as knitting), especially when the teacher has done much of the preparation work. It’s also easy, with counterfeit crafts, to compare one child’s work to another, which you can’t do as easily when children are doing their own creative work that would result in varying outcomes. Teachers feed into this competitive comparing-and-contrasting mentality when they display children’s work en masse on a bulletin board, almost goading the viewer to rank the yield. Although preschool accreditors frown on this practice of lining up kids’ work in lockstep, we still see it everywhere.

Quote ID: 03349

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Erika Christakis

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The Importance Of Being Little

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