Creating Classroom Rules
This in-service suite describes five steps teachers can follow to generate meaningful classroom rules and teach them to children.
Teaching Practices
Effective, nurturing, and responsive teaching practices and interactions are key for all learning in early childhood settings. They foster trust and emotional security; are communication and language rich; and promote critical thinking and problem-solving. They also support social, emotional, behavioral, and language development; provide supportive feedback for learning; and motivate continued effort. Teaching practices and interactions are responsive to and build on each child’s pattern of development and learning. They can be measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) and other adult-child interaction tools. These observations may then be used to support professional development. Teaching practices also include how schedules and routines are carried out, how settings are managed, and how children’s challenging behaviors are addressed.
Redirecting Behavior
Learn ways to redirect a child’s challenging behavior before it escalates.
Fostering Children's Thinking Skills
Learn ways teachers can support children in using thinking skills to gain deeper understandings and acquire new knowledge.
Providing Feedback
Explore this in-service suite to learn how to provide feedback to children that supports them. Teacher feedback can help children’s learning and encourage effort.
Focusing Children on Learning Goals
This in-service suite describes how teachers can help children better understand what they are learning.
Scaffolding Children's Learning
In this in-service suite teachers learn ways to help children when they struggle to learn a concept or complete an activity.
Making Learning Meaningful
Find out how to make children’s learning meaningful. Also, explore how learning can be relevant in children’s everyday lives.
Using the Scientific Method
This in-service suite describes the steps of the scientific method. Teachers can discover how to use these steps in daily activities with children.
Engaging Children in Conversations
Find out about teaching practices to engage children in conversations that can support learning in the classroom.
Thick and Thin Conversations
"Thick" conversations are the extended back-and-forth exchanges between a teacher and a child. This in-service suite describes teaching practices to engage children in "thick" conversations.