Mindfulness in Head Start Settings, from headstart.gov, provides links to a few different resources to support growth in this area. These resources include: An online learning module (also called Mindfulness in Head Start Settings) through the Individualized Professional Development (iPD) Portfolio. The module focuses on how to include mindfulness practices into your daily routines in … Read more
The Head Start brief, You’re the Best Teacher! Responsive Interactions with Young Children, explains how adults’ responsive social interaction is key to children’s early learning.
ECLKC offers a teacher’s guide and recommended materials list to support educators in responding to children’s interests as they explore the natural world.
The August 2023 issue of Natural Resources, published by the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, offers several resources on this topic, some of which are available in English and Spanish.
Featuring Jamie Schneider, Board President and Lisa Miller, Executive Director of deaeyc. In this episode, we have a conversation with Jamie Schneider, Board President, and Lisa Miller, Executive Director of the Delaware Association for the Education of Young Children (deaeyc). They both discuss field experiences, addressing the workforce crisis, celebrating recent deaeyc wins, and looking … Read more
When considering literacy, like any topic in early childhood education, we want to make sure we are planning playful and engaging activities. Language and literacy has evolved quite a bit in early childhood education. Educators who have been working in the field for many years may remember a time when early childhood curricula encouraged flashcards … Read more
When it comes to children the old saying goes, “It takes avillage to raise a child.” But what does that village actuallylook like when it comes to early childhood education? Thevillage starts within the early childhood education programand includes the children and their families along with theprogram’s educators and staff. Through partnerships, thevillage can extend … Read more
Every November DIEEC joins the national celebration of Children’s Book Week. It is one of our favorite events because we have the opportunity to go out to early childhood education programs across the state and read to children. Shared storybook reading is one of the best ways to encourage language and emergent literacy in children. … Read more
While traveling along your early childhood education journey, you may have come across the phrase “multi-age learning environments.” A multi-age learning environment is defined as a classroom or learning space with children of different ages or grade levels. Typically there is at least a 2 year age span. For example, in a typical Montessori preschool … Read more
Circle time is a well-known concept in the early childhood education community. It is also the subject of many debates in our field. Our hope with this article is to shed some light on the purpose of circle time and how to use this time effectively. Circle time is said to have originated in Great … Read more
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