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2. Tips for Preschool Teachers and Other Early Childhood ...

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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. Effective Preschool Curricula and Teaching Strategies - ed

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   Currently, 38 states have some type of state-funded preschool program. Over 800,000 children were enrolled in state-funded pre-k programs during the 2004-2005 school year and investments are growing, with $2.8 billion spent on state pre-k during that same year. With this growth, more evaluations of state-funded.

4. Teaching STEM in the Preschool Classroom: Exploring Big Ideas ...

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   They explain the big ideas in STEM, emphasizing teaching strategies that support these activities (such as language-rich STEM interactions), and describe ways to integrate concepts across disciplines. The text features research-based resources, examples of field-tested activities, and highlights from the classroom.

5. Teaching Preschoolers to Self-Assess Their Choices in Pre-K - ed

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   West Virginia University. Young children have the capability of making decisions, informed choices, and self-assessing their progress on their choices. In this classroom of 4- and 5-year-olds, children used pictorial contracts, rubrics, and various self-assessment techniques as a method for continuous learning.

6. 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.

7. Implementing STEAM in the Early Childhood Classroom - ed

   files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1190735.pdf

   The study involved 50 in-service preschool teachers in an urban highneeds area in the northeastern United - States. These teachers taught children ages three to five. Ninety percent of the teachers were female with a wide range of diversity represented, the majority being African American. Fifty percent of the teac hers had ten or more