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 There is nothing more dull than a lecture. No matter what lecture you are thinking of, possibly a great hall with a single speaker or an angered parent having a go at you, there is nothing worse than being spoken at. The same must be said for the classroom. Removing the teacher from the focal point of the room while also giving life and fun to the lecture, more particularly how to do this, is something I want to learn more about.  What I know about play-based learning is a decent amount. I highly recommend reading "The Curious Classroom," by Harvey Daniels, as it has a lot of good Milwaukee based references on how to further inspire play learning that leads to inquiry. (  Book Information Here  ) Additionally, "How to Use Play for Learning" by Jessica Arrow is a good start into the topic of play based learning. Through all this, it is easy to see why students need a bit of time to play before being set on lecture based learning. Play inspires creativity while also ...

 Hello folks! Hope you all are rockin' on in the post(ish) pandemic world! I know that like most of you, I too have spent a good amount of my quarantine time lost inside a good book. If I am honest, I wish that I could spend a lot of my time like that. Alas, my summer reading has come to an end! That being said, hello fall reading!  All joking aside, as if that were possible, my name is Alyssa Krieg and I am a Secondary English Education senior at UW- Milwaukee. I am currently endeavoring in my field placement at Pulaski High (if you don't know where that is, head to Leon's Frozen Custard and spin around- you can't miss it) and am excited as ever to be in a classroom.  Perhaps this excitement stems from my never-ending belief that education is important: the most important thing in the world. And now, as I enter my final year at UWM, I have the amazing opportunity to step out of a classroom and...directly into another classroom. This is a good thing. I'm moving from...