How to Promote Learning in Toddlers *Remember: YOU write anything that is RED !

1. How to Promote Learning in Toddlers *Remember: YOU write anything that is RED!

2. Toddlers: Social & Emotional Review • How might parents promote sharing on the playground? • By engaging children in activities that require them to take turns • EX: • Going down a slide • Playing on a see-saw • Throwing/rolling a ball • Going up a ladder

3. What will we learn today? • Standard: • ET-ECE-7: Explore the growth, development, and care of the toddler. • EQ: • How might a caregiver promote learning in a child 1-3 years of age?

4. Methods of Learning: • Incidental Learning: • Unplanned learning • EX: Jen squeezes her new toy dog and it barks. She quickly learns to squeeze the dog in order to hear the noise. • Directed Learning: • Results from being taught by parents, caregivers, teachers, or older siblings • EX: A preschool teacher helps children learn letters by showing them flash cards with the letters printed on them. • Trail-and-Error Learning: • When a child tries several solutions before finding one that works • Imitation: • Learning by watching and copying others • Young children use their older siblings as a model for behavior of all kinds.

5. 10 Ways to Guide Learning in Toddlers: • Pay attention and encourage • Give time to examine choices/make decisions • Don't immediately take over when they struggle with a task • Help find things that interest them on their own • Demonstrate how to do a particular task and then let them do it • Provide simple explanations on their level • Provide opportunities to explore their environment • Take them on everyday errands • Allow time for unstructured play 10.

7. Toys are important for learningbecause they… • Help children explore and imagine • Help develop motor skills • Help children learn to share • Make learning easy and fun

8. Children ONLY learn new skills when they are physically and intellectually ready! • Would it be a waste of time to try to teach a six-month old baby to read? • Why? • Too young • Not intellectually mature enough • Memory hasn’t developed yet • Just started developing speech

9. Reading Readiness: • Depends on the environment caregivers create • Enjoying books is important when learning to read • Interact with young children while reading • The more enthusiastic the reader is, the more enthusiastic children will become

10. Math Readiness: • Depends on an interest in learning basic math concepts • Explore: sizes, shapes, amounts, and portions • To teach numbers: • “Talk” numbers with them • Make a game out of finding numbers • Blocks and puzzles teach: • Shape recognition (learning shape names) • Sorting (GREAT mathematical skill)

11. A Guide to Learning: Toddler Edition DUE: February 26/27, 2014! What you will do: Information you MUST include: (At Least) 2 ways parents can guide children’s learning (At Least) 2 roles toys play in learning AND (At Least) 2 examples of age appropriate toys (At Least) 2 examples of an environment that promotes intellectual development (At Least) 2 hazards caregivers should remove from a toddler’s reach to make a home as safe as possible (At Least) 2 safety concerns for toddlers Vocabulary: Incidental Learning, Directed learning, Developmentally Appropriate, Parallel Play, Self-Centered • You will work with a partner (or alone) to create a book about toddlers • Your book can be handmade OR made using PowerPoint • Your book MUST include: • A Title Page • Author/Illustrator • A Table of Contents • page numbers • A Glossary • page numbers • Pictures • drawn, cut from magazines, or found on internet