Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning

Find out how to make children’s learning meaningful. Also, explore how learning can be relevant in children’s everyday lives.

This in-service suite describes the steps of the scientific method. Teachers can discover how to use these steps in daily activities with children.

Find out about teaching practices to engage children in conversations that can support learning in the classroom.

"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.

Learn the strategies in this in-service suite for using questions to extend conversations with children.

Expansions are ways to expand on what a child says or does during a conversation. This in-service suite describes how to use expansions to extend conversations with children to promote their language development.

Find out about teaching practices to engage infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in conversations that can support learning in the classroom.

"Thick" conversations are the extended back-and-forth exchanges between a teacher and a child. This in-service suite describes teaching practices to engage infants, toddlers, and prescholers in "thick" conversations.

Learn strategies for using questions to extend conversations with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.

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