Early Childhood Development, Teaching and 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.

Use the scientific method’s five steps to help expand children’s understanding of their environment.

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.

Conversations help children develop varied vocabularies. Find out how to use everyday talks with children to help them learn more vocabulary words.

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.

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.