By integrating pláticas, or sustained conversations, into their settings, educators focus on children’s strengths, interests, and abilities linked to their home languagesand cultures.
Teaching Young Childrenis 51ɬɬapp's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read,TYCis packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.
51ɬɬapp 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.
In this article, we follow Ms. Mena’s kindergartners’ lead to imagine an approach to early childhood social studies that makes space and time for inquiry into compelling social studies questions.
By leveraging children's natural curiosity, educators can offer a wide range of equity-based opportunities to learn about social studies principles everysingle day.
This article presents a three-part playful learning framework to help educators move from a culture of compliance to one of agency and curiosity.
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Authored by:
Elias Blinkoff, Charlotte Anne Wright, Molly Scott, Katelyn Fletcher, Allyson S. Masters, Hande Ilgaz, Lien Vu, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff