Innately curious, infants and toddlers love to explore, investigate, and discover-making the earliest years a perfect time to begin teaching the foundations of STEM.
Use this step-by-step guide to becoming an effective and successful child care director or administrator in todays early childhood education environment.
Improve young childrens language, social-emotional, and number sense development with effective developmentally appropriate teaching strategies in story retelling.
Understand the important milestones of development in children in five developmental domains: physical and motor, social and emotional, communication and language, cognitive, and approaches to learning.
Updated information and unbiased, developmentally appropriate strategies and activities to celebrate, rather than exclude, diversity, traditions, and holidays.
Environmental education expert David Sobel joins with a variety of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful forest kindergarten program.
The Comfort of Little Things is a thought-provoking book that empowers educators to give themselves and the people in their lives second chances in order for themselves and the children they teach to learn and thrive.
Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practicethe success of children they teach depends on it.
Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood is an inspiring step-by-step guide to documenting children's ideas, questions, play, and learning in a way that enhances teachers' thinking and understanding at the same time.
Understand the value of connecting animals and childrenFrom family pets and wild animals to toys, stuffed animals, and media images, animals are a central part of every childs landscape.
Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovationLoose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play.
Learn the skills and best practices to make receiving visits more productive and worry-freeAs a family child care professional, you nurture and teach children during their most formative years.