Promoting Learning Through Approaches to Rest, Meals, Routines, and Physical Activity
Find out how teachers can promote children’s learning outcomes during routine indoor and outdoor activities.
Teaching Practices
Effective, nurturing, and responsive teaching practices and interactions are key for all learning in early childhood settings. They foster trust and emotional security; are communication and language rich; and promote critical thinking and problem-solving. They also support social, emotional, behavioral, and language development; provide supportive feedback for learning; and motivate continued effort. Teaching practices and interactions are responsive to and build on each child’s pattern of development and learning. They can be measured by the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) and other adult-child interaction tools. These observations may then be used to support professional development. Teaching practices also include how schedules and routines are carried out, how settings are managed, and how children’s challenging behaviors are addressed.
Engaging Interactions and Environments
These 15-minute In-service Suites are a professional development resource for staff in busy, active early childhood centers and programs. They are organized around one topic or big idea and address effective teaching and assessment practices.
1302.31 Teaching and the learning environment.
This standard outlines elements of effective teaching practices, learning environments, materials and space, and promoting learning through approaches to rest, meals, routines, and physical development.
Materials to Support Learning
This in-service suite explores guidelines on how to select classroom materials. Learn how to choose materials that engage children and encourage peer interaction and learning.
Building a Solid Foundation
This in-service suite introduces the foundation of the Framework for Effective Practice. It focuses on engaging interactions and environments.