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This course focuses on the development and implementation of quality learning environments for children. -
Joyful Math opens classroom doors to share practical, yet innovative ways to integrate mathematical play throughout the school day. The course focuses on specific strategies, activities and examples of mathematical play within literacy, art, and outdoor explorations. One of the many challenges facing early childhood teachers is how to meet academic standards while creating learning environments that honor young children’s mathematical curiosity. It introduces a set of short whole-group and partner routines designed to engage young children in meaningful math thinking and build problem-solving communities. Through stories, classroom examples, and resources, the course offers the tools to get started right away with math routines. It inspires educators to make space for joy and play in early childhood mathematics, while giving them the tools to make this vision a reality. Click Here to Buy Joyful Math direct from the publisher Click Here to Buy Early Childhood Math Routines direct from the publisher Click Here to preview the course syllabus. -
This course is rich and comprehensive, with practical insights to the frontier of early literacy. Grounded in research and extensive experience in prekindergarten classrooms the course demonstrates how to:- Create a classroom community that is play-based, and prepares children for the literacy-rich world in which they live
- Promote constructive learning through inquiry
- Recognize the language and literacy behaviors and understandings that are appropriate instructional goals for preschoolers
- Use powerful and playful ways to guide children to learn about letters, sounds, and words
- Support emergent readers and writers through an array of literacy activities.
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Play helps students reach standards and goals in ways that in-seat instruction alone cannot. -
By drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and child development, this course discusses how the young child’s brain not only craves play but also thrives on it. Through rich sensory experiences and playful exploration, children forge new neural pathways, laying a solid foundation for future learning and growth. The course contains tons of fly-on-the-wall films that illustrate the points and over 50 activities to utilize. Click Here to Buy The Brain That Loves to Play direct from the publisher Click Here to preview the course syllabus. -
Schools exist for one reason only--for students to learn and achieve. The effectiveness of the teacher is the single greatest effect on student learning and achievement. This course uses the most requested book for what works in the classroom for teacher and student success. It s an education staple for preparing effective teachers at all grade levels, pre-K through college, in all content areas. With the release of the 5th edition, it s now bigger, better, and bolder. The book walks a teacher, either novice or veteran, through structuring and organizing a classroom for success that can be applied at any time of the year. THE First Days of School includes a 54-minute DVD, You Have Changed My Life, with accomplished actor and singer William Martinez. Through story, song, and American Sign Language, he shares the transformational moment when a teacher realized his potential. His story affirms that teachers ARE the difference in the lives of their students. We are excited to partner with Wong Publishing to provide this course! Click Here to buy THE First Days of School Direct from the Publisher Click Here to preview the course syllabus -
Visible Learning in Early Childhood investigates the critical years between ages 3 and 6 and, backed by evidence from the Visible Learning® research, explores seven core strategies for learning success: working together as evaluators, setting high expectations, measuring learning with explicit success criteria, establishing developmentally appropriate levels of learning, viewing mistakes as opportunities, continually seeking feedback, and balancing surface, deep, and transfer learning. Using the Visible Learning research, teachers partner with children to encourage high expectations, developmentally appropriate practices, the right level of challenge, and a focus on explicit success criteria. Click Here to Buy Visible Learning in Early Childhood direct from the publisher Click Here to preview the course syllabus.