Free Play as Learning
Presenter
Meggan Gill, Waldorf School
Session / Time
- Breakout Session IV
- Thursday, April 26, 4 - 5:30 p.m.
- Bedford Room
Description
Presentation featuring Waldorf principles applied to young children and play. I will present the different qualities of play, how they relate to modalities of learning and development and display slides of the environment. Time for Q &A at the end.
Goals / Content / Intentionality
To offer a brief but in depth picture of Waldorf Education play theory in Early Childhood Education.
Meggan Gill, Waldorf School
Presenter Bio
Meggan Gill, Waldorf School
Meggan first learned about Waldorf education while pursuing a liberal arts undergraduate degree in health sciences at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She began working in the Early Childhood of the Olympia Waldorf School in 1997.
In 2008 she moved to New York city and completed the Waldorf early childhood teacher education program at Sunbridge Institute. She has taught parent-and-child and kindergarten classes at the Brooklyn Waldorf School since 2009.
