Kindergarten Teaching - how to teach children effectively

A kindergarten teaching career is rewarding and enjoyable. Understand how young children learn and you will have successful results.

Picture four to six-year-old children peeking under rocks at the beach. They are curious, exploring, experimenting, discovering, touching, asking questions, and motivated to learn. To them it’s all play, they don't need adults praising them for their efforts, it's their choice.

So how do we teach in a manner that hooks into this natural desire to learn and use kindergarten teaching methods that encourage, rather than dampen children's enthusiasm?

Page 2: Try these 3 teaching practices to help your students be successful learners...

Children who are involved in their own learning, who can link new ideas to their prior knowledge and share what they have learned are well on their way to becoming successful learners.

Always use concrete materials to teach little kids
Children learn in lots of different ways
Present concepts in a structured step-by-step way

Page 3: Make learning easier for your students. Find out how...

Thematic units make learning interesting
Learning is developmental
Practicing concepts and skills does not need to be dull and repetitive

Page 4: Maintain a classroom atmosphere of warmth and acceptance...

Be flexible and understanding with young children
Motivate with enthusiasm and curiosity
Help children describe what they’ve learned
Take lots of breaks

Books that help you teach:

	The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher This book is a great resource for ideas and pointers on how to make the first days of school, and the rest of the year, very successful.
	Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, 4th Edition (Book, CD & DVD) This book has a developmentally-driven, hands-on instructional approach providing a practical way to study words with students. It is ordered in a developmental format and complements the use of any existing phonics, spelling, and vocabulary programs you are using.
	Literacy for the 21st Century: A Balanced Approach (5th Edition) This book covers the information new and experienced teachers need to know to teach literacy effectively. Includes specific strategies to use in the classroom to develop successful readers and writers.
	Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement This book has become an indispensable resource for teachers who want to teach thinking strategies so that students become engaged, thoughtful, independent readers.
	Cooperative Learning & Hands-On Science This book uses cooperative learning to teach both science content and process skills. The book includes a complete overview of cooperative learning and co-op structures, cooperative process science, and 15 fantastic step-by-step, hands-on cooperative learning lessons. Loaded with curriculum and literature links, science journal ideas, activities, and ready-to-use blackline masters. Purchase from the link above.

More books to help you teach...

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PLAYING WITH SHAPES is a geometry and spatial skills teacher guide Ebook. It shows you how to teach geometry to young children by using special day themes.

Included in the Ebook:
Little Circle Day, Mr. Square Robot Day, Rectangle Train Day and Triangle Puppy Day

Reproducible student recording sheets are included as well as a bonus teach geometry with art section.
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