These 15-minute In-service Suites focus on strategies for implementing curriculum and effective teaching practices for children birth to age 5 in various learning domains. Use the suites as a professional development resource for staff in busy, active early childhood centers and programs.
A Culturally Responsive Approach to Implementing a Curriculum
Learn more about a culturally responsive approach to implementing a curriculum and its key components. Find ways to partner with families to provide children with culturally responsive learning experiences.
Implementing a Curriculum Responsively: Building on Children’s Interests
Learn how education staff can use their curriculum to build on children’s interests. Discover ways to notice children’s interests and explore how curricula supports the environment, experiences, and interactions.
Implementing a Curriculum Responsively: Supporting Children’s Development and Learning
This 15-minute In-service Suite describes how education staff can implement a curriculum that is responsive to children's development and learning.
Behavior Has Meaning
Explore the importance of understanding that all behavior is a form of communication and has meaning. Discover ways to interpret children's behaviors and support their social and emotional development.
Emergent Writing
Learn about emergent writing and the writing process. Discover ways to support children's emergent writing skills.
Make-Believe Play
This suite highlights the key components of make-believe play. It describes what play looks like for children ages birth to 5 and provides practical ways to support make-believe play for all children.
Math: Number Recognition and Subitizing
Learn more about number recognition and subitizing. Discover why this important math competency is the foundation of math learning. Find ways to support number recognition and subitizing for children birth to 5.
Coaching to Support Early Math Instruction
This in-service suite describes how to use Practice-Based Coaching (PBC) to improve early math teaching practices that lead to positive outcomes for children in both center and home-based programs.
Differentiating Learning Opportunities in Early Math
This in-service suite describes how education staff can use ongoing child assessment and knowledge of child development to plan individualized math learning opportunities for children.
STEAM
Learn how children birth to 5 naturally engage in inquiry, reasoning, and problem-solving every day. Explore ways to help develop children’s science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) skills.
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National Centers: Early Childhood Development, Teaching and Learning
Last Updated: May 20, 2024