Self-esteem develops from a young age through experiences that help children feel capable, confident, accepted, and willing to try new things. In order to foster high self-esteem, caregivers can model certain behaviors, praise efforts rather than outcomes, and offer appropriate and achievable challenges.
Preschool
Successful Circle Times with Young Children
Although challenging behaviors can occur during any circle time activity, they are most likely to occur during activities that offer little opportunity for children to actively participate. It is important that teachers plan ahead for circle time to engage children and reduce challenging behaviors.
SPROUT
Expanding early childhood programming is a global interest given the strong return on investment. Programming is most beneficial when these experiences are high quality, and high-quality experiences are associated with numerous long-term benefits. SPROUT was created to provide a scientifically based framework for identifying high-quality in early education settings.
Child Care Access in 2020: How will pending mandates affect availability in Franklin County, Ohio?
By 2020, any Ohio child care provider accepting Publicly Funded Child Care subsidies must enter into Ohio’s quality rating and improvement system. This paper examines the availability of child care and explores how this landscape may change, examining the locations most at risk for losing child care sites and highlighting possible deserts.
Sit Together and Read (STAR)
STAR Read-Aloud Practices are designed to develop and strengthen young children’s awareness of and knowledge about print. They utilize evidence-based reading techniques developed from years of research.
Scaffolding with storybooks: A guide for enhancing young children’s language & literacy achievement
This book is an essential guide for those many individuals who serve as children’s first teachers and who understand, as we do, that interactive book reading is an important context for helping children learn and develop.
Early Learning Ohio
PROJECT SPOTLIGHT: Take a look at one of our ongoing projects which is looking deeply into a child’s social and learning experiences with peers from preschool through third grade.
Assessing Preschool Professionals’ Learning Experiences (APPLE: Ohio)
The APPLE evaluation looks at the extent to which professional development for preschool teachers impacted children's language and literacy outcomes.