This joint position statement of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and the National Council
of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) highlights a set of principles for effective early math instruction.
This activity allows undergraduate early childhood or child development students to work collaboratively to find and identify reliable national and local resources regarding child observation, referral, assessment, and intervention services.
In the study of Child Development, physical growth is a complex process which entails learning about children's bodily movements and abilities. More specifically, gross motor skills are a type of physical abilities in which large muscle movements are exercised by young children during the early years of life. This is glimpse of what typical physical abilities children possess between ages 3 to 5.
This course is designed to provide early childhood education professionals with the knowledge and skills to assess their own level in terms of the eight core competencies, across the infant-toddler, preschool and out-of-school age range. This survey course consists of eight learning modules. Each module is based on one of the eight core competencies: 1) understanding growth and development of children and youth, 2) guiding and interacting with children and youth, 3) partnering with families and communities, 4) health, safety and nutrition, 5) learning environments and curriculum, 6) observation, assessment and documentation, 7) program planning and development, and 8) professionalism and leadership. Includes Powerpoint audio lectures, syllabus, and self-assessments. This course can be used for self-documentation of professional development hours.
This module is designed for pre-service teachers in the undergraduate PreK- 4 Early Childhood Education major. The material in the unit will familiarize the future teacher to develop lesson plans and units in both the direct and indirect teaching models. Wonder Spaces, using the Reggio-inspired philosophy, is introduced to design spaces for learners ages 0 - 5. Classroom management is also included.
In the 2018-2019 school year, Northwest Educational Service District 189 brought together a design team of six Pre Kindergarten - Kindergarten educators through a ClimeTime grant to find play-based, and engaging ways to teach climate science to early learners. This course shares out the findings of the team, including some work around designing for equity and 3-Dimensional Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) alignment. You will engage in activities to use with students including a puddle walk, soil permeability tests, and lesson examples. Phenomenon based lessons will be shared as well as a list of resources and recommended books compiled by our design team.
Resource suggestions for family leadership, voice, and engagement, including ideas to explore with your family learning with remote learning.
OSPI and DCYF collaborated to compile resources useful to the Preschool Development Grant Transitions initiatives including:100 Schools Reach Initiative: local community early learning- elementary school partnerships pursuing Wildly Important Goals in strengthened transitions for children birth through kindergarten.Transitional Kindergarten (TK) Partners in Transition: Scaffolding for districts to implement all five pillars of TK in collaboration with community-based early learning programs to support an array of options for four-year-olds to best meet individual needs.PreK to 3rd Grade Outdoor Learning and Since Time Immemorial: Early learning collaboration to support high-quality outdoor environmental and tribal cultural learning.
The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) defines literacy as ‛the capacity, confidence and disposition to use language in all its forms’. It can include talking, listening, viewing, reading, writing, music, movement, dance, storytelling, visual arts, media and drama. Children develop a wide range of literacy skills in the early years, from infancy through to the start of school, which form the foundation for reading, writing and communicating. Early literacy approaches aim to promote the development of these foundational skills.
Evidence-based practices for promoting early literacy in early childhood care and education settings are listed. Some of the examples offered may not apply in all contexts and/or may be more suitable for particular learners or age groups.
The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) describes numeracy as the capacity, confidence and disposition to use mathematics in daily life. Mathematics involves understanding about numbers and quantity, operations, patterns, space, measurement and shapes. Numeracy is the application of these mathematical concepts, with skills developing along trajectories from birth. As children’s mathematical capabilities grow, they are increasingly communicated and applied to solve real-world ‘problems’ and build numeracy skills. In the context of early childhood education and care, these problems may include how many cups we need so that every learner has a cup for their water, who has built the tallest tower, or how to make and extend a pattern made with musical instruments.
Evidence-based practices for supporting learners’ early numeracy development
in early childhood education and care settings are listed. Some examples
offered may not apply in all contexts and/or may be more suitable for particular
learners or age groups.
A web-based textbook/course created by Lumen Learning. Part 1 concerns Educational History and Policy, covering common educational policies from 1770's to the present; Part 2 is Educational Psychology, covering topics such as human brain, language and physical development, Nature v. Nurture, and theories and practices for working with K-12 youth.
In this course learners will look at the wide spread diagnosis of ADHD among primary school aged children from the prospective of the instructors and administrators. The course will begin with researching the disorder and how to recognize its symptoms. The course will progress into medical diagnosis, medical treatments, common school accommodations, proposed alternative treatments then concluding with students researching classroom practices and discussing how practices help and hinder students with ADHD and how the proposed alternatives may be implemented to combat those common educator tactics that are perceived to hinder students with ADHD.
Given that Pediatric Feeding Disorders affect children and their families’ mealtimes, it is imperative that children and families have strategies to improve and aid their child’s feeding. Therefore, this research will investigate the following research question: What strategies can be used with selective eaters during LVC’s Center for Speech, Language, and Hearing Disorders “Adventurous Eaters” group to improve participant’s willingness to try new or previously refused foods and liquids?
El Niño Entero es un libro de texto de Psicología Infantil o Crecimiento y Desarrollo Infantil que es a la vez completo y conciso. Los estudiantes no necesitan un volumen extenso para digerir, pero sí necesitan una comprensión sólida de cómo se desarrolla un niño pequeño. Sólo con esta comprensión pueden surgir prácticas apropiadas para el desarrollo en el aula y en otros lugares que sean espacios de amor y cuidado para los niños pequeños. Con el costo creciente de los libros de texto, este libro de texto es un recurso para los instructores que buscan encontrar materiales accesibles y de calidad para nuestros estudiantes.
A ROTEL Project Spanish translation of the ROTEL Project The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years.
Esta introducción fue modificada desde el principio de la publicación Family Partnerships and Culture (Asociaciones familiares y culturales en español), por el Departamento de Educación de California y utilizando la declaración de posición de Avanzando en equidad en la educación en la primera infancia, de la Asociación Nacional para la Educación de Niños Pequeños. Estas sabias palabras enmarcan el propósito de este libro y el curso para el que se está utilizando, los cuales solo son el comienzo del viaje.
Aunque la mayoría de las familias utilizan algún tipo de cuidado fuera del hogar, los niños menores de cinco años continúan pasando la mayor parte de su primera infancia en el entorno familiar. En consecuencia, las familias continúan desempeñando un papel especialmente importante en la formación del curso del desarrollo temprano de los niños. Por esta razón, las familias son miembros invaluables en los programas para la primera infancia.
Guiadas por creencias y principios culturales, las familias seleccionan experiencias, transmiten actitudes e imparten conocimiento a sus hijos para prepararlos para la edad adulta. Por esto, es importante que el personal del programa aprenda a colaborar eficazmente con las familias. Para desarrollar una colaboración y aprovechar la familia como recurso principal, los educadores de la primera infancia deben acercarse, aprender y desarrollar colaboraciones sólidas con las familias. Este proceso requiere tener una actitud receptiva al aprendizaje y hacer un esfuerzo por comprender la individualidad de cada familia y la diversidad de las familias de donde provienen los niños.
This lesson was created for use in the elemenatry PE classroom. It can be adapted for all age groups and ability levels. It allows flexibility for skills of all students. The only materials needed are hula hopps and there can be many variations added to make the game more complicated or can be simplified if necessary.
Libro interactivo de imágenes relacionadas con el otoño. Lleva asociado el audio de cada una de las imágenes. Para pasar las páginas se ha de pulsar a la rana.
introducing or practicing emotions and recognition
ACTIVITY OBJECTIVE: communicating - making new friends
This four part web broadcast series is aimed at supporting early intervention (EI) and early childhood special education (ECSE) systems leaders with building capacity in personnel and families to develop trusting partnerships. The series features discussions of the role that data play in strengthening family-professional partnerships. Suggestions and resources for designing personnel and family development activities to support partnerships are also shared.
U.S. Department of Education funded Technical Assistance Center - resources are free for online viewing.