The Montessori Method, developed by educator Dr. Maria Montessori over a century ago, encourages self-directed learning that ...

“Look at the environment and see how safe it is if the child wasn ... The three teachers in the Stanford Center preschool classroom regularly crouched or knelt next to their students. Gabriel Garfin, ...

Step into an American preschool classroom today and you are likely to be bombarded with what we educators call a print-rich environment, every surface festooned with alphabet charts, bar graphs ...

In particular, classrooms are now held to the standards laid out in the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (ECERS), a tool designed to evaluate preschool-classroom environments. After a ...

Generally when selecting a preschool classroom, parents are able to visit ... and feel safe in a school environment — all while playing and having fun. In preschool, she said, he was much ...

I believe there may be a link between preschool classroom environment and the ability to engage in productive dialogue in the later years. The exercise of free expression, as a cultural and ...

My motivation was to make people aware of the importance of acoustics in classrooms because in Japan, there are no standards ...

Classroom vocabulary and print rich environments help children to develop ... Technology The appropriate use of technology in the preschool classroom includes the use of devices and applications ...

A study found that sound-absorbing ceilings in preschool classrooms reduce noise, help calm children, and improve their ...

In addition to analyzing the children of the original participants, Heckman surveyed the siblings of participants who were not in the preschool classroom, but were in the home at the time.