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Where's Your Partner? Pairing Bilingual Learners in Preschool and Primary Grade Dual Language Classrooms
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Alanis, Iliana – Young Children, 2013
Children working alone is a common instructional strategy in some early childhood classrooms. According to foundational work by Johnson and Johnson (1986), however, cooperative teams employ higher levels of thought and retain information longer than children who work individually. Children engage in discussion, take responsibility for their…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Educational Strategies, Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods
The Challenge of Working with Dual Language Learners--Three Perspectives: Supervisor, Mentor, and Teacher
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Macrina, Maricarmen; Hoover, Doris; Becker, Cindy – Young Children, 2009
The authors offer concrete ideas for supporting dual language learners in early childhood classrooms and strategies for enhancing children's comprehension of the new language. Each author presents practical ideas based on personal experiences as educators of children whose home language is not English. To provide quality education for all…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Bilingualism
A Head Start/College Partnership: Using a Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Approach to Help Working Teachers Earn Degrees
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Chu, Marilyn; Martinez-Griego, Barbara; Cronin, Sharon – Young Children, 2010
Education qualification requirements for early childhood teachers are increasing in many types of federal, state, and community-based early childhood programs. The 2007 reauthorization of Head Start requires all teachers to have associate degrees and 50 percent to have earned a baccalaureate degree in early childhood education by the year 2013. At…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children, College School Cooperation
Los Ninos Aprenden en Casa: Valuing and Connecting Home Cultural Knowledge with an Early Childhood Program
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Riojas-Cortez, Mari; Flores, Belinda; Clark, Ellen – Young Children, 2003
For Week of the Young Child, a Texas school offers a bilingual parent institute to nurture school-family relationships, demonstrate and build on school respect for home cultures, and foster community awareness of early childhood education. Families recognize the learning for children inherent in daily routines, learn teaching techniques, and feel…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Family Environment, Parent Role