About Let Them Move: Why It’s Essential Students Get More Movement in Schools & How to Integrate More Movement into the Classroom for Greater Learning Outcomes by Rebecca Kramer Fiscal:
Why are so many of our children suffering at school? Why is there such a high rate of teacher burnout? What’s wrong with our current approach to education?
The answer: a major disconnect between the requirements of school systems and the needs of children.
The solution: a frequently overlooked, yet vitally important component—let students move.
The struggle for teachers to create meaningful learning experiences while also meeting the needs of students is real. In this book, writer Rebecca Kramer Fiscal—a longtime elementary-school-teacher-turned-occupational-therapist for children—shows how movement is a critical missing piece of the classroom experience. Students’ growing and developing bodies need to move.
Let Them Move combines the writer’s own experiences in teaching and occupational therapy, as well as information from science, history, psychology, and other fields, so educators and parents can view child behaviors differently and see why incorporating regular movement into the classroom is absolutely necessary. In addition to why children need to move, this book also shows how to do so. Let Them Move offers simple ways of helping children get the needed physical input to settle their bodies to a “just right” feeling place—the place that best positions their minds for learning.
Let Them Move challenges the reader to question long-accepted educational practices, and works toward creating a culture of learning and growth through increased movement in the classroom.
This book includes:
● What teachers often do not learn about child development while earning their degree
● 100+ Easy to Implement Movement Activities for the Classroom
● 70 Free Downloadable Classroom Picture Cards
● Why and how to let them move, so your children can settle their bodies to best position their intellects to soar.
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Author Bio:
Rebecca K. Fiscal, MEd, MS, OTR/L is a former public school teacher and currently an occupational therapist in the greater Metro Atlanta area. She provides school-based occupational therapy for elementary students and private therapy at a pediatric sensory gym. She has led several workshops for teachers to address the sensory, behavioral, and developmental needs of children. Rebecca has always been intrigued by the complex layers of physical, mental, emotional, and energetic aspects that make up a person. As a result, she takes a holistic approach when she’s helping individuals to reach their goals and to live fully. Rebecca resides in Avondale Estates, Georgia. Her favorite activities are traveling, planning/hosting events for friends and family, folk dancing, hiking and camping, yoga and meditation, and sharing time with her family and dogs.