Developing Social And Emotional Skills In Early Childhood Instruction: A Delphi Study, Tess Breen
Dec 2018
Developing Social And Emotional Skills In Early Childhood Instruction: A Delphi Study, Tess Breen
Tess Breen
ABSTRACT
Developing Social and Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Instruction: A Delphi Study
by Tess Breen
Purpose: The purpose of this Delphi study was to explore social and emotional learning in early childhood instruction with an emphasis on identifying the methods expert early childhood teachers use to support and promote the development of empathy and emotion regulation, to have the teachers rate the impact of these methods, and to identify the specific activities used to implement the six most highly rated methods.
Methodology: This study utilized the Delphi method which is an iterative process used to collect and distill the …
Service Learning As Pedagogy In Early Childhood Education: Theory, Research, And Practice, Kelly Heider
Dec 2016
Service Learning As Pedagogy In Early Childhood Education: Theory, Research, And Practice, Kelly Heider
Kelly Heider
This book presents the most recent theory, research, and practice on service learning as it relates to early childhood education. It describes several service learning programs, many of which were developed to better prepare pre-service teachers for the challenges they face in today’s early childhood classrooms, including class size, ever-changing technology, diversity, high-stakes testing, parental involvement (or the lack thereof), and shrinking budgets. The book shares stories of positive outcomes from pre-service teachers who, having participated in service-learning programs, report a shift in their attitudes and beliefs including an increased empathy for others, a heightened sensitivity to student differences, more …
Literacy Instruction In Kindergarten: Using The Power Of Dramatic Play, Genan Anderson, Ann Sharp, Debora Escalante
Dec 2011
Literacy Instruction In Kindergarten: Using The Power Of Dramatic Play, Genan Anderson, Ann Sharp, Debora Escalante
Genan Anderson
This article supports using dramatic play in the kindergarten classroom to engage children emotionally in the learning process. It uses classroom scenarios to support the role of the dramatic arts to promote oral language development, reading readiness, reading achievement, comprehension, and writing skills. It asserts that early childhood students are best served when sound foundational literacy instruction is playfully presented, practiced in activities such as socio-dramatic play, and enhanced with creative arts.
Information Literacy: The Missing Link In Early Childhood Education, Kelly Heider
Dec 2008
Information Literacy: The Missing Link In Early Childhood Education, Kelly Heider
Kelly Heider
The rapid growth of information over the last thirty or forty years has made it impossible for educators to prepare students for the future without teaching them how to be effective information managers. The American Library Association refers to those students who manage information effectively as information literate. Information literacy instruction has been a priority in many secondary schools since the American Association of School Libraries published the Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning in 1998. Although these standards were written for grades K-12, information literacy is still not the focus in many early childhood classrooms. This article discusses …
