Advances in Understanding Child Development and Learning: Through a Lens of Equity
This issue of Young Children highlights key child development concepts, such as agency and funds of knowledge, emphasizing the need to deepen our knowledge of child development and learning through a lens of equity.
The benefits of outdoor play aren’t just physical. It allows children to challenge themselves and become appraisers of risk. This, in turn, helps develop cognitive, social and emotional, and self-regulatory skills.
In this article, we share strategies for incorporating fine and large motor skills into daily learning experiences and highlight a lesson from one preschool class.
Authored by
Authored by:
Amy August, Maria Fusaro, Andrea Golloher, Emily Slusser, Jihyun Lee, Julie Sliva Spitzer
This blog offers several strategies educators can use to embrace moments of silence in their interactions with young children and to reflect on that practice.
Functional analysis is a tool that allows educators to figure out the purpose or function of challenging behavior as well as the events that trigger and maintain it.
