Rebecca (Becky) Tate has been an educator for over two decades and currently teaches in a prekindergarten classroom at Amargosa Valley Elementary School in Amargosa Valley, Nevada.
By getting to know each learner’s unique qualities, interests, and strengths, educators form the foundations for belonging and foster learning and development for every child in partnership with families.
Individuality: Supporting Each and Every Preschooler
Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.
Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.
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.
Focusing on the ecology of the classroom allows educators to intentionally create opportunities throughout the learning day to foster children’s early literacy and language skills.
Authored by
Authored by:
Leslie La Croix, Kimberly Sanders Austin, Christine Pegorraro Schull, Sara E. Miller, Julie K. Kidd
No matter where you’re going—whether running errands around town or to a big gathering far away—you can encourage your child to practice their literacy skills as you plan together.
In this article, we share examples of developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate practices that include families’ funds of knowledge through the use of family artifacts and photographs.
This article offers strategies teachers can use to create learning communities that welcome and support families’ home languages as children develop their English-speaking skills.
Cecilia Fowler teaches 3- and 4-year-olds at the University of Maryland’s laboratory preschool, The Center for Young Children, where she has been since 2003.
Advancing Equity in Preschool: Practical Strategies
Teaching Young Children is NAEYC's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read, TYC is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.
Advancing equity in preschool depends on intentionality and reflection. We hope this issue illuminates developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate practices that you can apply in your own contexts.
