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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.

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.

This in-service suite describes how teachers can plan efficiently for conducting ongoing assessment of children's learning in the preschool classroom.

This in-service suite describes how to collect and use work samples to document children's learning in the preschool classroom.

Learn how to use technology in the preschool classroom.

There are many ways teachers can use video in a classroom. Explore this in-service suite to learn how to use it to collect information to document child progress.

This in-service suite describes ways to work in partnership with families in order to facilitate ongoing child assessment.

In this video, learn what transition to kindergarten means from a child’s perspective. Find out what activities become important to children as they make this big change.