In this article, I discuss how learning to use authentic assessment strategies starts with learning to see and observe children in their environments and continues with a teacher’s evaluation and reflection.
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.
Now, in a study funded by the Brady Education Foundation, researchers are testing a culturally flexible tool that will support agency in classrooms so that more children will be offered dynamic and sophisticated learning experiences.
Authored by
Authored by:
Natacha N. Jones, Amber T. Fowler, Jennifer Keys Adair
Head Start preschool educator Amanda Messer offers insight into how young children can demonstrate early learning goals through engagement in process art.
In make-believe play, young children are actively engaged with peers and are in control: it is the children—not an adult—who make decisions during play.
Authored by
Authored by:
Barbara Wilder-Smith, Deborah J. Leong, Elena Bodrova
Art is important to the development of young children’s physical and cognitive skills and their aesthetic awareness. Examples of children’s creative expressions often fill early childhood settings. But what about appreciating visual art?
