Amy Fredericks Included in Cleveland Jewish News Story on Holding a Child’s Attention

11/21/2019

Amy Fredricks, Co-Lead Outdoor Pre-Primary teacher at Laurel School was recently featured in the Cleveland Jewish News where she discussed the outdoor learning and the attention span of younger students.

“It’s easiest to keep a child’s attention during nature play,” Fredricks noted in the article. “At Laurel School, she said teachers understand learning happens differently and tapping into those different learning styles naturally happens outside.

Along with retaining focus, Amy touched on how students also learn empathy and patience. “Children tend to be intrinsically motivated by why or how things happen and that is where the learning happens. They come up with their own questions. One of the things we do well [at Laurel] is celebrating that play is learning. So, we give the children time and space to play and learn.”

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