Schools like Tiny Trees that offer place-based education rely on the surrounding landscape to teach life skills, such as staying warm and contributing to the community.
The SEEDS approach to repeated read alouds offers teachers a structured, emotionally supportive, and intentional way to increase children’s language and literacy development.
For some young children, the transition from home to school is tough. Sometimes a little celebration of progress is just what children, and their teachers, need.
Vibeka Mitchell is Navajo from Naschitti, New Mexico. She is a Head Start teacher with Youth Development Incorporated (YDI), located on the campus of Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI), in Albuquerque.
Classroom-Based Assessment is an online mini-course for teachers of preschool children. In this course, you will learn about evidence-based assessment, as well as observation and documentation within the classroom.
Guided play is a powerful tool educators can use to help preschoolers and kindergartners learn essential knowledge and skills in the context of playful situations.
Returning to the classroom after winter break can be challenging. With the tips and strategies here, the children in your classroom will be able to transition back to the daily routine in no time.
