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Implement Universal Design for Learning in your preschool or kindergarten classroomCreating Young Expert Learners is an accessible and engaging guide for early childhood educators. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for the proactive design of classroom instruction, with an emphasis on meeting the needs of learners of all abilities in the classroom. With three principles at its core—multiple means of engagement, multiple means of representation, and multiple means action and expression—UDL is based in the science of learning to ensure that classroom instruction offers the supports needed to help young children become expert learners who take ownership of their own learning. Creating Young Expert Learners includes a theoretical introduction to the concept of UDL as it applies to young children, as well as practical examples of common early childhood learning units designed within a UDL framework. Vignettes and examples help early childhood educators connect the theory to practice and sample learning units are included for teachers to use in their own classrooms. Use UDL to help you design your teaching to reach all the children in your early childhood program.

María Renée Candia desarrolla en esta obra múltiples miradas sobre el cuaderno como objeto escolar, como mapa, como testimonio y, principalmente, como un dispositivo didáctico que posibilita inscribir con autoría la lectura del mundo que realizan lxs niñxs en su travesía por el jardín. Se ofrece una amplia gama de textos gráficos verbales y no verbales para que dichos registros sean más ricos y a la vez potencien los procesos de alfabetización en sentido amplio. El cuaderno es un campo problemático atravesado por tensiones que llevan a encontrar las formas de uso que salvaguarden la identidad del Nivel Inicial, posicionándolo como parte de su agenda didáctica. Asimismo, en tanto documento escolar autorizado, deja registro o huellas de prácticas alfabetizadoras que son tomadas como objeto de análisis posibilitando adentrarse en el campo de la alfabetización en sentido estricto. Esta obra aporta, desde un minucioso estudio, a la comprensión de cómo las herencias pedagógicas formatean dichas prácticas.

From Oops to Aha pulls back the curtain on learning from mistakes in four public school Kindergarten classrooms: urban, charter, Montessori, and suburban. With each chapter, the reader is transported directly into the daily lives of teachers and their students. The portraits offer poignantly-detailed, moment-by-moment illustrations of how teachers respond to mistakes and interact with students. At the micro-level, this perspective reveals how teachers'beliefs, intentions, and instructional practices play out in context during daily life in the classroom. By juxtaposing the true stories of the lives of Kindergarten teachers and children, Donaldson makes plain that even in this very early grade, there is a wide and striking range of children's interpersonal and learning experiences in school. All Kindergarten classrooms are not the same; the nuanced way teachers respond to mistakes in the moment is impacted by access to resources and by policies enacted at a broader level. This book will inform and inspire readers to reexamine preconceived notions of mistakes, feedback, and early childhood learning and teaching, and to reconsider their impact on educational equity.