EARLY LEARNING
Professional Learning
Engage in program-aligned workshops that strengthen your instructional practice by diving deeper into the importance of multisensory, play-based learning.
Description:
Experience play-based instruction that inspires creativity and builds skills and knowledge, so your students are ready for kindergarten. Explore materials and lessons that support oral language, language & literacy, readiness & writing, numbers & math, and science & social studies. See how the 36-week program is designed to meet children where they are, growing with them as they learn.
Learning Outcomes:
- Implement research-based instructional strategies based on development stages for readiness that foster effective instruction, classroom management and reinforce important sensory motor, social-emotional skills, and academic skills.
- Deliver effective, interactive lessons in early literacy, readiness, writing, math, oral language, science, and social studies that encourage student application and carry over skills.
- Facilitate play-based instruction with multimodal and connected learning in whole class and center-based models.
- Differentiate learning to meet the needs of diverse learners, including English language learners and students with disabilities.
- Build and foster a culture of literacy with rich, diverse books.
- Leverage the Pre-K Interactive Digital Teaching Tool to bring learning to life and increase student engagement.
Description:
Discover how to use music, multisensory activities, and hands-on manipulatives to build essential readiness, fine motor, and pre-writing skills needed for kindergarten success. Learn about grip, crayon and coloring skills, hands-on letter play, and forming capitals, lowercase letters, and numbers.
Learning Outcomes:
- Identify a developmental sequence for teaching readiness & writing skills that can be used to plan and differentiate instruction to meet the needs of all students.
- Discover multisensory strategies and our step-by-step approach to effectively teach grip, fine motor and coloring skills using music and tools for little hands.
- Select purposeful hands-on, multisensory manipulatives, music and models to teach position concepts, alphabet knowledge, letter formation, and name writing to promote kindergarten readiness.
- Locate progress monitoring supports within print and digital educator resources.
Description:
Establish the foundation for your young learners’ emergent reading and emergent writing skills. You will learn how to introduce letter knowledge, phonological awareness, and pre-writing skills with playful, multisensory routines.
Learning Outcomes:
- Sequence literacy instruction from listening and speaking, to letters and sounds, to emergent writing.
- Integrate play-based, fine motor skills with multisensory activities that build attention and engagement.
- Differentiate instruction with small-group routines and quick checks for understanding.
Building Joyful Foundations for Literacy
Create joyful, engaging learning experiences that nurture early literacy skills and promote kindergarten readiness.