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Developmentally Appropriate
Gardening for Young Children By Vicki Stoecklin
“Whether based in a neighborhood or at a school center or summer camp, we’re finding that children reap benefits from sowing seeds and helping plants grow.”
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What is Kibo? The Developmental Technologies Research Group, directed by Prof. Marina Umaschi Bers at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, aims to understand how new technologies that engage in coding, robotics and making, can play a positive role in children’s development and learning.
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Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves By Louise Derman-Sparks & Julie Olsen Edwards Anti-bias education is a stance that supports children, and their families, as they develop a sense of personal and group identity within a complex and multicultural society. This approach helps teach children to be proud of themselves and their families, to respect a range of human differences, to recognize unfairness and bias, and to speak up for what is right. (Derman-Sparks & Olsen, 2010).
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Making you Environment the Third Teacher -Margie Carter
“In order to act as an educator for the child, the environment has to be flexible: it must undergo frequent modification by the children and the teachers in order to remain up-to-date and responsive to their needs to be protagonists in constructing their knowledge.” -Lella Gandini,
U.S. Liaison for the Dissemination of the Reggio Emilia Approach
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