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Church, Ellen Booth – Early Childhood Today, 2006
As every early childhood teacher knows, providing children with activity and material choices, stimulating multi-sensory activities, and positive support and novel challenges can truly inspire children's love of learning. Now there is the additional support of brain research. Marian Diamonds of the University of California at Berkeley reports that…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Teaching Methods, Experiential Learning, Learning Motivation
Church, Ellen Booth – Early Childhood Today (1), 2005
In this article, the author presents lively and interesting ideas on renewing children's interest in group-time meetings. Come springtime, teachers usually find that interest is flagging at their class group-time meetings. It is at this time of year that children often need something extra special to inspire and motivate them in the classroom. The…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Participation, Class Activities, Group Activities
Poole, Carla; Miller, Susan A.; Church, Ellen Booth – Early Childhood Today, 2005
Babies are active participants in their learning and need to explore a variety of objects. Nurturing relationships support these explorations. Objects are more clearly remembered and understood. Thus, one activity this article suggests doing with a 12-month-old to encourage abstract thinking, is talking about how squeezing the bottle of ketchup…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Development, Infants, Concept Formation