UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE & WORKING AS A TRUE TEAM PLAYER *Note: Few people realize how important our individual personalities are to team/staff functioning. Many of the problems associated with team development stem directly from the interplay between the various personality types.…
What are the Good Qualities of a Teacher? A teacher's job is making sure children are safe, responsible for their health, development, nutrition and education. Combine those responsibilities with the ever-changing personalities of multiple infants, toddlers and preschoolers on a…
YOUR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS *What we say to people and children and how we say it can have a tremendous effect on behavior! How would you feel about a person whose only interactions with you involve placing demands on you? No…
Note: Total number of early childhood educators employed is 2,176,693 (2024). 39, 311 represents 1% working in Special Education! Out of this statistic, 16% change jobs yearly. Teachers in the United States rate their lives better than all other occupational…
This is not easy to do a subject on baby activities. However, there is a need to see what can be done for babies to learn. We need ideas to try different things with babies. After combing the Internet to…
THEME 2: Hula-Hoops Math, Science, Physical Development, Literacy, Social Studies In times, when Playstations and Wii ruled the roost, indoor/outdoor games sort of seemed obsolete to the younger generation. Despite the high tech entertainment consoles of today, the fact remains…
Ribbons for Math Length Ribbon Activity-Place different lengths of ribbon on the table. Challenge the children to put in order the shortest piece of ribbon to the longest or vice-versa. This experience can be simpler by limiting the ribbons used…
SENSE of SMELL Have you ever wondered what you smell when you "smell the roses" in the springtime? What makes a smell is something that is too small to see with your eyeball alone. It is even too small to…
SENSE of SIGHT - How Your Eyes Work From the moment you wake up in the morning to the time you go to sleep at night, your eyes are acting like a video camera. Everything you look at is then…