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Using Technology to Enhance Communication and Critical-Thinking Skills in Kindergarten
Identifying various open-ended/content-creation iPad apps that enhance and develop students’ oral communication and critical-thinking skills at the kindergarten level. Students use these apps to document their learning and show their thinking.
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Bringing Douglas Clements’ Trajectories to Life 2A
The team brought children’s learning to life through the use of a learning trajectory for mathematics. While capturing this learning on video, teachers began to construct a deeper understanding of how children acquire their conceptual understanding.
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Teaching Talk: Integrating Oral Language Development in Early Learning Kindergarten
Focusing on the integration of explicit oral language instruction, with a focus on phonological awareness, into all aspects of the ELK program (routines, large and small group activities, individual instruction, and technology use).
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Understanding and Developing Early Years Thinking in Math: Exploring the Connection between Number Sense and Spatial Sense
Area(s) of Focus: kindergarten, mathDivision(s): PrimaryLevel(s): KindergartenResource(s) Available:Exploring the connection between number sense and spatial sense.
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Documenting Spatial Reasoning in the Full-Day Kindergarten Program
Area(s) of Focus: kindergarten, mathDivision(s): PrimaryLevel(s): KindergartenResource(s) Available:Using the professional resource, Taking Shape, we supported students’ understanding of spatial reasoning concepts through intentional play-based tasks and documentation.
