Materials to Support Learning
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.
Teaching Practices
Effective, nurturing, and responsive teaching practices and interactions are key for all learning in early childhood settings. They foster trust and emotional security; are communication and language rich; and promote critical thinking and problem-solving. They also support social, emotional, behavioral, and language development; provide supportive feedback for learning; and motivate continued effort. Teaching practices and interactions are responsive to and build on each child’s pattern of development and learning. They can be measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) and other adult-child interaction tools. These observations may then be used to support professional development. Teaching practices also include how schedules and routines are carried out, how settings are managed, and how children’s challenging behaviors are addressed.
Giving Children Responsibilities
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.
Following Children's Lead
Find out how teachers can engage children in learning by following the children’s lead.
Schedules and Routines
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.
Stating Behavioral Expectations
This in-service suite shows how to create expectations for classroom behavior that preschool children can learn.
Creating Classroom Rules
This in-service suite describes five steps teachers can follow to generate meaningful classroom rules and teach them to children.
Redirecting Behavior
Learn ways to redirect a child’s challenging behavior before it escalates.
Problem Solving in the Moment
Teachers can use the problem solving approach of this in-service suite with children in their classrooms. It helps children resolve social problems as they arise "in the moment."
Fostering Children's Thinking Skills
Learn ways teachers can support children in using thinking skills to gain deeper understandings and acquire new knowledge.
Providing Feedback
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.