This month on Ask Hello, educators share strategies to get preschool students communicating with each other and building relationships while learning online.
Knowing that we all have implicit biases and, simultaneously, have the capacity to change our thinking and improve our practices, we’ve outlined four steps that early childhood educators can take to understand our own biases and to advance equity.
Research suggests that preschoolers’ early mathematics learning—including spatial-thinking skills—is related to later success in both reading and math. Here are some tips for supporting your preschooler’s spatial thinking!
Mathematics activities can contribute to later success in both math and reading, but activities focused on math and spatial learning can also be really fun and playful for young children—and for their teachers!
Authored by
Authored by:
Ashley Lewis Presser, Danae Kamdar, Ximena Dominguez
What does engaged joyful learning look like when many child care centers around the country are struggling, and educators, families, and children are navigating virtual school and social distancing?
This article discusses why engineering is important in the early years, what are core elements of engineering, and how you can foster engineering in your setting.
Authored by
Authored by:
Katherine Laguzza, Katherine Katzer, Mary Eileen McDonnell, Christine Cunningham
Young children love to explore the world around them—and STEM activities are a great way to help them do it. With so many STEM ideas to choose from, how do you find what is best for your child?
Young children love to explore the world around them—and STEM activities are a great way to help them do it. With so many STEM ideas to choose from, how do you find what is best for your child?
When you go online to search for a science activity, how can you know which activities will really help children build knowledge about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and support their scientific thinking?
This blog post features four educators (pre-K, kindergarten, ESL, migrant education) in culturally diverse programs who focused their intentional teaching with guidance from the NAEYC & Fred Rogers Center Position Statement on Technology and Interactive M
In this presentation for preschool teachers, get insights on the core considerations, principles of child development, and guidelines for DAP in action.
We are so pleased to be able to offer you the 2020 compilation of Voices of Practitioners articles. This volume marks VOP’s 16th year as an online journal.
The following details how emerging research shows a connection between higher curiosity in children and higher reading and math scores at kindergarten.
Early care and education professionals, advocates, and supporters have worked to solve real and perceived problems within the early childhood education workforce, but without complete success. One ongoing issue is how we—and others—define who we are.
In this article, the strategies we used for adapting our chosen curriculum to develop students’ critical thinking skills, language and literacy skills, and world knowledge.
