There are a few different approaches to education that move beyond traditional methods. The Bank Street Approach allows the students the ...

The Bank Street approach, known as the developmental-interaction approach, recognizes that all individuals learn best when they are actively engaged with materials, ideas, and people,...

The Bank Street method is a child-centric education program. It focuses on the curriculum's diversity and offers students active educational ...

The Bank Street method employs a child-centered education program focusing on the diversity of curriculum. Students are offered active ...

For this edition of the Bank Street Occasional Paper Series, we invited educators to share stories from their practice: times when they utilized children’s literature...

Montessori education program offers an alternative education opportunity for children, and it supports the development of children in early childhood period as well. In the...

Additional Skills Required for Reading. Throughout the Montessori curriculum, lessons are presented from left to right and top to bottom. This ...

This paper attempt to explore children literacy with Montessori game tools. An applicative form of the game to introduce the concept of literacy (words and...

Barbara Isaacs suggests a proven technique for nurturing fledgling literacy skills… Montessori recognised the child's need for a language-rich environment ...

In this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of project-based education on children's early literacy skills. Experimental design with pretest-posttest control group was...

The Project Approach builds on natural curiosity, enabling children to interact, question, connect, problem-solve, communicate, reflect, and more. This kind of ...

Section 1: Literacy and Project Work · The Dispositions to Write and Read · Strategies to Incorporate Literacy in Project Work in the Pre-Kindergarten Classroom

The Reggio Emilia Approach® is an educational philosophy based on the image of a child with strong potentialities for development and a subject with rights.

This article presents the findings of a scoping review of 26 empirical studies that examined early literacy in Reggio Emilia and Montessori classrooms. A five-stage... This text is available only through interlibrary loan only

The Reggio Emilia pedagogy is compatible with literacy education goals. However, just a few detailed accounts have been published about how literacy instruction is integrated...

… ) prekindergarten curriculum that occurred in the United States. Our intent is twofold. First, …
impact of the Tools curriculum itself, addressing both the potential impacts of the curriculum to …

Although most early-childhood educators agree on the value of play in child development, they find it increasingly harder to advocate for play given today's pressure...

The kindergarten program, Tools of the Mind (Tools), has been shown to improve executive functions (as assessed by laboratory measures) and academic performance. The objective...

Tools of the Mind gives teachers the tools to ensure every child becomes a successful learner, developing the underlying cognitive, social and emotional ...

Background. There is evidence that children who are taught to read later in childhood (age 6-7) make faster progress in early literacy than those who...

In the face of transmission-oriented national curricula, this study explores possibilities for claiming space for imagination, as ‘the most powerful and energetic of learning tools’...

This is both a theoretical and practical book giving a complete pathway to teaching children how to write and read in Classes 1 and 2....

This document aligns the content in the Michigan Early Childhood Standards of Quality for. Prekindergarten with the goals and ideals of The Creative ...

The Creative Curriculum for Preschool is a comprehensive, research-based preschool curriculum that helps teachers nurture children's curiosity and encourage ...

The High/Scope educational approach emphasizes child-initiated learning activities for preschool/elementary school children. A research study shows that compared to children receiving direct instruction, High/Scope...

Have you ever wondered what High/Scope is, where it came from, and how it can be used with young children in your setting? Bringing...

High/Scope's approach to education is a blend of Jean Piaget's constructivist theory of child development and the best of traditional teacher experience. The High/Scope...

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