Recently, a video of a first grade Math teacher in a NYC charter school went viral because of the way the teacher responded to a student's work. I was invited by the NY Times as one of eight scholars in the field of early education and child development to comment on the appropriateness of the teacher's response. Read more at the following link:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/13/nyregion/experts-on-success-academy-teacher-video.html
Here is a list of strategies and phrases by Renee Jain that may be used to calm down and work with a young child who is experiencing anxiety. This is very helpful for classroom teachers as well as parents with young children:
Right from when they are born, babies begin to observe the expressions and behaviors around them and start to match their neural maps to these observations. As early childhood educators have consistently maintained, much of what young children learn in school or at home is from watching the adults in their lives. So we need to constantly ask ourselves this question - are we modeling for our children the behaviors we do want them to practice? Are we their "social compass"?
Read the following article by Susan Pinker for more on this:
Delhi University in India's capital city has been embroiled in a series of mismanaged educational reforms over the past few years - from moving from a three-year undergraduate degree program to a four-year undergraduate degree program (FYUP), to the now latest Choice Based Credit System (CBCS). It is interesting to compare these to current trends in education in the US:
"Every parent seeks the “best” preschool for their child; but the truth is that there isn’t any one best school.The “best” school is the one that works most for you and your child.
There are, however, some basic markers that do characterize a quality preschool. Here's what you should look for when investigating preschool options... "
Read more at:
https://www.noodle.com/articles/questions-to-ask-when-considering-preschool