BabyTalks
The BabyTalks webinar series focuses on current research and evidence-based practices that support infants' and toddlers' development and learning.
The BabyTalks webinar series focuses on current research and evidence-based practices that support infants' and toddlers' development and learning.
Children make great gains in literacy when they are engaged in conversation before, during, and after storytelling. This dialogic reading strategy is used to increase vocabulary and language development in young children. Teaching teams may use the Tough Boris example as a way to introduce dialogic reading.
This tool helps to identify the strengths and needs of an existing play space, and serves as a basis for setting priorities and planning enhancements and improvements.
With a few easy-to-find materials and willing volunteers, many settings and elements can be created to greatly improve children's spaces.
Preschool children transition into kindergarten more successfully when their schools and families take part in the preparation, and when their preschool and kindergarten teachers connect.
Take a look at this overview of the “what, why, and how” of successful kindergarten transitions.
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In order for children to close any achievement gap they may have experienced when they entered Head Start or Early Head Start, programs must have clear systems in place that support high-quality instruction. These resources are designed specifically for program leaders.
These learning modules are highlights of higher education courses from the EarlyEdU Alliance®. They go a bit deeper since they combine theory and the latest early childhood education research with students’ field-based learning.
Children communicate so much through their behavior. Teachers and caregivers will find this article useful in identifying strategies for working with dual language learners exhibiting challenging behaviors.