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2. Talk, Read and Sing Together Every Day! - U.S. Department of ...

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   Encourage back-and-forth exchanges. • Tune into children’s interests and experiences and talk about them. • Take turns communicating. • Show that you are interested in what they are doing and listening to what they say. • Provide time for children to respond. 3. Invite children to talk about what they are doing.

3. Preschool Curriculum: What'sInIt forChildren andTeachers - ed

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   in the dramatic play area). The alphabet displayed and visible at children’s eye view, with children having access to alphabet toys and manip-ulatives (e.g., alphabet puzzles, magnetic letters). Functional signs that are visible around the classroom. (e.g., the class schedule, labels for toy storage, names on cubbies).

4. Developing Creative Teaching Skills in Pre-Service Teachers

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   The materials: a creative teacher development package Pre-service teacher training is considered a critical time for developing and transforming novice teachers’ professional values and identities (Bryson, 2014; Boyd et al., 2015). Consequently, a one-year postgraduate course for primary school, pre-service teachers

5. Preschool Development Grants Program - U.S. Department of ...

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   The Preschool Development Grants competition supports States to (1) build or enhance a preschool program infrastructure that would enable the delivery of high-quality preschool services to children, and (2) expand high-quality preschool programs in targeted communities that would serve as models for expanding preschool to all 4-year-olds from low- and moderate-income families.

6. Planning for an Interactive Readaloud with Children in Pre-K ...

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   1. Read: Read the selected parts of the book aloud, pausing to ask 1–2 deeper-dive questions that target understanding the theme (moral or message) of the story. 2. Talk: Pause during reading to ask deeper-dive questions. Encourage the child to respond in complete sentences. 3.

7. Pre-K/Elementary School | National Center on Safe Supportive ...

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   Pre-K/Elementary School, the start of children’s formal education, is the springboard for future academic engagement and success. Early experiences, including early relationships and learning environments, serve as the foundation for later educational and life outcomes. As noted by Plato, "the beginning is the most important part."

8. Supporting Dual Language Learners in the PreK Classroom

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   How can teachers support dual language learners in the preK classroom, especially when considering the number of languages spoken? In Boston’s Head Start programs in 2015 alone, children spoke more than 140 languages and more than 35 percent lived in households where English was not the primary language. 1 In 2016, about 12 million (22 percent) of children in the United States spoke a ...

9. The teacher should be learning: In-service professional ... - ed

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   Research shows teacher education, both pre-service and in-service programs, is beset with similar challenges and complexity of training and developing motivated teachers (Forlin & Sin, 2017; Sharma, 2018). It is frequently reported that both pre-and in-service teachers are underprepared for IE (Forlin & Sin, 2017; Opoku, Rayner,