The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in our educational systems and the realization that adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy could be transformative at institutions seeking to improve. The program is designed to give participants a workshop experience where they can better understand anti-racist teaching and how the use of OER and open pedagogy can empower them to involve students in the co-creation of an anti-racist classroom. The capstone project involves developing an action plan for incorporating OER and open pedagogy into a course being taught in the spring semester. OFAR participants are invited to remix this template to design and share their projects and plans for moving this work forward. 

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.

This guide makes recommendations based on the best available research evidence about how early childhood services with 3-5 year-olds can engage with families to enhance children’s early learning and development.
1 It sets out ‘promising’ and ‘not promising’ approaches drawn from multiple studies which have measured the effects of different strategies. While there is room for improvements in the quality of available research evidence,
2 these approaches provide ‘best bets’ for guiding practice. This guide also sets out next steps for early childhood services and practitioners to consider how the findings are relevant to them.

Executive function and self-regulation contribute to all five outcomes in the Early Years Learning Framework by enabling children to engage in learning, develop strong relationships with others and make choices that enhance their wellbeing.

This guide is one in AERO’s Tried and Tested series on evidenceinformed teaching practices in early childhood education and care settings that make a difference. Educators and teachers can use these guides to reflect on their practice and inform their planning for future instruction.

Executive functions enable humans to control impulses, stay focused, prioritise, and achieve our goals. They include 3 higher-order thinking skills that emerge during early childhood: working memory, inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility.

This early childhood learning trajectory looks at children’s progress in executive functions, to help you plan the next steps in their learning and development.

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory video outlines children’s progress in executive functions. It can be used alongside the EYLF 2.0 assessment and planning cycle to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing.

This lesson is meant to be a guide for Nebraska Family and Consumer Sciences teachers who may teach the following courses Human Development, Human Growth & Development, Child Development, Parenting, Interpersonal Relationships, Relationships, Family Living, Teen Living or Daily Living courses. Any additional readings and/or topics not included in the lesson plan should be marked N/A.

This is an review activity to help my students review the female reproduction system.

This lesson is meant to be used at the start of a Child Development or Early Childhood Services course, to get students exploring the importance of early childhood.

This 6-minute video provides an overview of The Science of Neglect: The Persistent Absence of Responsive Care Disrupts the Developing Brain, a Working Paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child.

This book provides free educational resources to be used in the area of career exploration within the field of child development and early childhood care and education. Resources and information relates to Child Development /Early Childhood Education and Education majors at California Community Colleges.

This video introduces AERO's Early Childhood Learning Trajectories, freely available evidence-based resources for use alongside the EYLF 2.0 assessment and planning cycle. Early childhood education and care service teams can use these resources to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing.

Language and communication are the foundations for all learning and social interaction. They relate to many other aspects of cognitive, physical and social development, beginning in infancy.

This early childhood learning trajectory looks at children’s progress in language and communication, to help you plan the next steps in their learning and development.

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory video outlines children’s progress in language and communication. It can be used alongside the EYLF V2.0 assessment and planning cycle to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing.

This is a SoftChalk that helps my students review the Male Reproduction System.

Mathematical thinking and learning starts in infancy and develops into adulthood. It includes learning about mathematical concepts and applying them in everyday situations.

This early childhood learning trajectory focus on children’s progress in mathematical thinking, and support you to plan the next steps in their learning and development.

This Early Childhood Learning Trajectory video outlines children’s progress in mathematical thinking. It can be used alongside the EYLF 2.0 assessment and planning cycle to support children’s learning, development and wellbeing.

In this lesson, students will learn about the developmental milestones of infants from birth to age 2.  They will identify 20 milestones and create a poster (paper or digital).

A different look at various "modern" parenting styles that we see within our society & the impact they have on children across the lifespan.

Overview:  This lesson includes a slide presentation to instruct about the 8 Multiple Intelligences (by Howard Gardner).  The students can take notes on the Doodle Notes handout.  Once the students are familiar with the multiple intelligences, you can help them apply the intelligences to preschool learning activities.  Students can work alone or in a group of two to plan 8 preschool activities that match the multiple intelligences.  The project also has the students plan the eight activities around a theme.  This helps students to think about multiple intelligences and developmentally appropriate activities for preschool age children.