Early childhood professionals are often responsible for monitoring how children are growing and learning. Screening, assessment, and evaluation are different activities that can be part of that process. These three terms can be easy to mix up. Our latest tip sheet aims to clear up the confusion!
Theater games and activities can be highly engaging for young children. They can also be a great way to work on social and emotional learning. Download our latest tip sheets, created in partnership with the Children’s Theatre Company, and learn why!
Storytelling/story acting is a special teaching strategy that harnesses the power of stories to help children build language and social-emotional skills. Download our tip sheets to learn more.
Play is more than just having a good time. Play helps children grow physically, cognitively, and socially. Download our tip sheets on the importance of play to learn more.
Inhibitory control is the skill that allows us to resist an impulse. Children develop this skill over time and with practice. Music is a tool that can be used to help children learn inhibitory control. Find out more in our tip sheets!
Did you know that in addition to being an enriching experience, music in the classroom can help children build emotion regulation skills? Download our latest tip sheets to learn more.
Introducing It: Using the Early Learning Guidelines to Track Development for Assessment talks about ways to track child development. It discusses two different sets of early learning guidelines that educators can refer to.
Download Introducing It: The Authentic Assessment Cycle and Its Role in Early Childhood Education to learn the hallmarks of authentic assessment. This tip sheet also explores the authentic assessment cycle, and it explains how data is used to shape further instruction.
Learn about the key skills described by the term executive function, as well as the role of culture and context in shaping children’s behavior in different environments. Then gain practical strategies for supporting the development of executive function skills in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers.
These tip sheets introduce common ways in which young children express responses to different types of trauma, the protective factors that can help children recover from trauma, and prompts and techniques for reflective listening in support of building trust in meaningful relationships.