A Framework for Understanding Early Writing Development
Review a framework for teachers to evaluate and understand the writing that young children produce.
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.
Teaching New Words: Embedding Vocabulary Instruction in Storybooks
Find out how to embed vocabulary instruction in storybook reading. Learn how to use explicit instruction and select useful and teachable targets.
Help Me Make a Strong Start! Strategies for Successful Kindergarten Transitions
This webinar reviews the importance of helping children transition from preschool or Head Start to kindergarten. It also shares successful strategies to help children, families, and teachers during this time.
Engaging Interactions: Scaffolding Children's Learning
“Scaffolding” means to provide children with just the right level of support to help them successfully complete a task. This webinar shares three main scaffolding strategies.
Engaging Interactions: Using the Scientific Method
Use the scientific method’s five steps to help expand children’s understanding of their environment.
Schedules and Routines in AIAN Programs
Daily schedules and routines help keep you organized. Research shows they also influence children’s social and emotional development. Learn how to develop your classroom schedules and routines in ways that will help you create and sustain a lively but well-organized classroom.
American Indian and Alaska Native Teacher Webinar Series
The AIAN Teacher Webinar Series features in-service suites that can help teachers and home visitors better understand and identify effective teaching practices.
Novel Words
Conversations help children develop varied vocabularies. Find out how to use everyday talks with children to help them learn more vocabulary words.
Materials to Support Learning
This in-service suite explores guidelines on how to select classroom materials. Learn how to choose materials that engage children and encourage peer interaction and learning.
Giving Children Responsibilities
This in-service suite offers ideas teachers can use to engage children in classroom activities and routines. Learn how giving simple tasks to children keeps them involved.