NAEYC’s Emergent Curriculum and the Cycle of Inquiry Approach course, is the first step on your journey to guiding children through an emergent curriculum.
Knowing that local field trips are a source of curriculum in early childhood education, two teachers venture to a theater with their class, then engage in a project about storytelling, performance, and stages.
One valuable way we can support children’s exploration of nature is by teaching them how to observe carefully and create observational drawings, which encourage children to understand and question their world.
After using hand-on learning in my virtual classroom, here are key ideas I learned while teaching in the pandemic Zoom classroom that I will be carrying with me as we begin the upcoming school year.
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
Preschool Without Walls is designed to offer a welcoming environment to families who might be uncomfortable with education and child care programs outside of the home.
Rich and sustained conversations in the classroom provide opportunities to learn about and practice using new vocabulary, to grapple with new ideas, and to contribute to longer-term knowledge and skills.
Classrooms that incorporate child-directed experiences offer many opportunities for children to uncover their ideas, to generate questions, and to construct their own knowledge.
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Angela K. Salmon María Ximena Barrera
مع توفر مجموعة واسعة من الخيارات المتزايدة في التعقيد فيما يخص تعليم الطفولة المبكرة نجد أن المعلمات والإداريات يقمن بصورة دائمة بعملية تقييم للنماذج والنُهج والمواد التي تدعم تعلم الأطفال وأكثرها نجاعة في ذلك
Using a fish tank as a project is a great way for teachers to provoke children’s thought, to engage them in the process of representing their learning, and to support their reflections.
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Andrea Anderson Jennifer Klutz Cindy G. McGaha
The Costa Rica Ministry of Education has developed I Learn at Home, a learning initiative to facilitate the use of technological resources and distance instruction to support the educational process during this period of social distancing.
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Ana Sofía Salguero López Rebecca Vieyra
The Costa Rica Ministry of Education has developed I Learn at Home, a learning initiative to facilitate the use of technological resources and distance instruction to support the educational process during this period of social distancing.
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Authored by:
Ana Sofía Salguero López Rebecca Vieyra
Research suggests that preschoolers’ early mathematics learning—including spatial-thinking skills—is related to later success in both reading and math. Here are some tips for supporting your preschooler’s spatial thinking!
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Ashley Lewis Presser Jillian Orr Mollie Levin
This article discusses why engineering is important in the early years, what are core elements of engineering, and how you can foster engineering in your setting.
