Fostering Children's Thinking Skills
Learn ways teachers can support children in using thinking skills to gain deeper understandings and acquire new knowledge.
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Providing Feedback
Explore this in-service suite to learn how to provide feedback to children that supports them. Teacher feedback can help children’s learning and encourage effort.
Focusing Children on Learning Goals
This in-service suite describes how teachers can help children better understand what they are learning.
Scaffolding Children's Learning
In this in-service suite teachers learn ways to help children when they struggle to learn a concept or complete an activity.
Making Learning Meaningful
Find out how to make children’s learning meaningful. Also, explore how learning can be relevant in children’s everyday lives.
Using the Scientific Method
This in-service suite describes the steps of the scientific method. Teachers can discover how to use these steps in daily activities with children.
Engaging Children in Conversations
Find out about teaching practices to engage children in conversations that can support learning in the classroom.
Thick and Thin Conversations
"Thick" conversations are the extended back-and-forth exchanges between a teacher and a child. This in-service suite describes teaching practices to engage children in "thick" conversations.
Asking Questions
Learn the strategies in this in-service suite for using questions to extend conversations with children.
Novel Words
Conversations help children develop varied vocabularies. Find out how to use everyday talks with children to help them learn more vocabulary words.
