Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning

Learn ways teachers can support children in using thinking skills to gain deeper understandings and acquire new knowledge.

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.

This in-service suite describes how teachers can help children better understand what they are learning.

In this in-service suite teachers learn ways to help children when they struggle to learn a concept or complete an activity.

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.