By integrating pl谩ticas, or sustained conversations, into their settings, educators focus on children鈥檚 strengths, interests, and abilities linked to their home languages听and cultures.
Teaching Young Children听is 51吃瓜网's magazine for anyone who works with preschoolers. Colorful, informative, and easy-to-read,听TYC听is packed full of teaching ideas, strategies, and tips.
51吃瓜网 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鈥檚 kindergartners鈥� 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 every听single 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
