Being Aware of Children's Needs
This in-service suite explores the importance of teachers’ responding to children’s needs. Discover how teacher awareness helps them notice children’s successes, no matter how small.
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.
This in-service suite explores the importance of teachers’ responding to children’s needs. Discover how teacher awareness helps them notice children’s successes, no matter how small.
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.
Find out how teachers can engage children in learning by following the children’s lead.
This in-service suite shows how schedules and routines help to promote children’s learning. Explore guidelines to create a daily classroom schedule that children can learn to follow.
This in-service suite shows how to create expectations for classroom behavior that preschool children can learn.
This in-service suite describes five steps teachers can follow to generate meaningful classroom rules and teach them to children.
Learn ways to redirect a child’s challenging behavior before it escalates.
Teachers can use the problem solving approach of this in-service suite with children in their classrooms. It helps children resolve social problems as they arise "in the moment."
Zoning is an effective practice to help teachers manage staff. This practice can also be used to create well-organized classrooms. This in-service suite explores how zoning can increase children's engagement and learning.
This in-service suite shows how teachers working on teams can engage in ongoing and effective communication. Learn how teacher-to-teacher talk can support quality teaching and learning in the classroom.