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Visible Learning, Visible Learners: The Power of the Group in a Kindergarten Classroom
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Mardell, Ben; Rivard, Melissa; Krechevsky, Mara – Young Children, 2012
The ability to address complex technological, ecological, social, and ethical challenges in the 21st century depends on developing a citizenry capable of innovation and higher-order thinking. Early childhood educators have the opportunity to help children acquire these abilities right from the start. Central to this endeavor is a more reciprocal…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, Creative Thinking
Supporting Children's Learning While Meeting State Standards: Strategies and Suggestions for Pre-K-Grade 3 Teachers in Public School Contexts
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Goldstein, Lisa S.; Bauml, Michelle – Young Children, 2012
Regardless of the grade they teach, teachers are professional decision-makers committed to supporting children's learning. Making decisions about what to teach and how to teach it best is simply a nonnegotiable feature of their job: only teachers have the specialized knowledge and professional training required to design meaningful learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, State Standards, Teaching Methods, Professional Training
Viewpoint 2. Development, Not Academics.
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Sava, Samuel G. – Young Children, 1987
Maintains that preschool programs should emphasize the child's development and learning potentials by focusing on the child's intrinsic interests and not on academically oriented, subject-centered learning and teaching. (BB)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Child Development, Learning Experience, Preschool Children
Piaget in Action
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Almy, Millie – Young Children, 1976
Discusses the way Piaget's theories operate in the classroom. (ED)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Theories, Learning Experience
Viewpoint 1. Superbaby Syndrome Can Lead to Elementary School Burnout.
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Elkind, David – Young Children, 1987
Maintains that there is a danger that prekindergarten and kindergarten children may experience learning problems (stress and "educational burnout") in elementary school if they are exposed to developmentally inappropriate teaching methods in early childhood programs. (BB)
Descriptors: Burnout, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Learning Experience