Kids who feel belittled by educational games

I hope this is the right sub-This isn't to say that I didn't play as a kid, I played lots of games with my friends. But at school I always felt belittled and demeaned by the way my K and young elementary teachers treated kids. If we were playing a stupid game to learn a concept, I was insulted that I had to do an activity that required unneeded toys or a song and dance to learn something that I already understood. After speaking to my boyfriend I learned that he felt the same way as a child. In a music education lecture last week, the lecturer commented that his wife asked why they only played such simple music when she was a child. (The lecturer advised exposing young children to one song/piece that will definitely be accessible, and one that is more complex in case anyone thinks that way).Now I'm a teacher, and because of my experience with my own early childhood, I have no idea how to connect with kids this way. Play is so important, but the way it was employed in my first hand experience, it felt unnecessary and like a waste of time. It felt so transparent and made me even more bored with material I was familiar with. I was itching for ideas and challenges and abstract thought while I was being handled with kid gloves. But- my weakness as a teacher is not always delivering developmentally appropriate lessons, and giving students more abstract thought than they can handle.Thoughts/comments/articles/books? via /r/education http://ift.tt/2tKFKss