Engaging Interactions: Using the Scientific Method
Use the scientific method’s five steps to help expand children’s understanding of their environment.
Adult–child interaction refers to the dynamic exchanges and relationships between educators and young learners that foster meaningful learning, social and emotional development, and school readiness. The resources in this collection focus on building and strengthening adult–child interaction. Strategies include creating positive discipline, encouraging curiosity, self-regulation, and using questions to support learning.
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.
The AIAN Teacher Webinar Series features in-service suites that can help teachers and home visitors better understand and identify effective teaching practices.
In this webisode, learn more about responsive interactions with infants and toddlers. Discover ways to use everyday routines as opportunities to engage in these interactions.
Find out how teachers can engage children in learning by following the children’s lead.
Learn ways to help children use positive behaviors during classroom transitions..
This in-service suite describes five steps teachers can follow to generate meaningful classroom rules and teach them to children.
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.
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.