Do children ever surprise you with answers to your questions that go far beyond what you expected them to say or write? Have you been “wowed” by a child’s response to a question by an immediate and correct answer? Why do children learn some things
As you look at a newborn, have you wondered when babies start learning, or pondered the purpose of the early days and weeks when a baby spends most of their waking hours in search of a bottle or breast for feeding? The answers may surprise
Early childhood is a developmental stage highly sensitive to growth across multiple domains in ways that are interwoven and concurrent. Our instructional decisions can maximize this development by using research to identify what works best in teaching, learning, and development. We take our teaching and
Children playing. That’s often what we think of and hear about when we talk about early childhood education. But when researchers Lillard et al. (2013) examined the relationship between pretend play and learning, they could not find evidence that pretend play caused any significant development
Contributed by Nettie Becker Early childhood educators are encouraged as never before. Political leaders are beginning to pay attention to the problem these educators have been talking about for years. In New York City, pre-school programs have enrolled over 75,000 children in its second year of