The Costa Rica Ministry of Education has developed I Learn at Home, a learning initiative to facilitate the use of technological resources and distance instruction to support the educational process during this period of social distancing.
As implementation of the Unifying Framework moves forward, priorities must be centered on addressing equity through scaling compensation, health insurance, and retirement benefits for early childhood educators across states and settings.
The 2020 Voices of Practitioners issue highlights the experiences of early childhood educators from different races, professional backgrounds, and life histories.
We are so pleased to be able to offer you the 2020 compilation of Voices of Practitioners articles. This volume marks VOP’s 16th year as an online journal.
The following details how emerging research shows a connection between higher curiosity in children and higher reading and math scores at kindergarten.
Early care and education professionals, advocates, and supporters have worked to solve real and perceived problems within the early childhood education workforce, but without complete success. One ongoing issue is how we—and others—define who we are.
Through the following examples, we aim to show how teachers can support young children’s growth in ways that are important to emergent writing development, with a focus on content knowledge, genre knowledge, and visual literacy.
Authored by
Authored by:
Carol A. Donovan, Diane C. Sekeres, Cailin Jane Kerch
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
Mucha gente no piensa preste la debida atención a ninguno de sus muchos prioridades y llevar todo el peso de estas demandas. Les decimos a todos ustedes: son valientes. Son esencial. Y ellos no están solos.
Many are feeling like they are not giving their full attention to any of their many priorities, and they are carrying the weight of this entire burden on their shoulders. To all of you. You are brave. You are essential. And you are not alone.
In this article, the strategies we used for adapting our chosen curriculum to develop students’ critical thinking skills, language and literacy skills, and world knowledge.
During the early childhood years, children start to develop their self-identity, a sense of who they are based on their roles and relationships in their family, early care settings or school and their community.
Durante los años de la primera infancia, los niños empiezan a desarrollar su identidad, una percepción de quiénes son según sus roles y relaciones dentro de la familia, el programa de cuidado infantil o la escuela y su comunidad.
Katie’s article describes her and her colleagues’ journey with a rare glimpse into what being on the frontline of a professional learning metamorphosis entails.
