Teaching Emergent Learners

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Course Summary

Teaching Emergent Learners Online Course for Teachers Professional Development

“A person is a person no matter how small.” – Dr. Seuss

6-Hour Course Summary

Teaching emergent learners is important, but the emergent learner might be a misleading term. Science tells us that learning begins in the womb. We know that a newborn responds to the sound of their mother’s voice immediately after birth. From there, neural connections multiply exponentially in that first year of life. In the second year, which scientists theorize is a critical period, babies’ brains are developing at such a rapid pace they actually have more neurons than adults! This is the time to teach your toddler languages, expose them to the physical world, and play, play, play! Your preschooler’s learning brains are hardly “emergent” at this point. I would argue the preschool-aged child is smack in the middle of the most critical period in teaching and learning. This 6-hour Pre-K teachers course will provide you with resources and activities to foster and build students’ emerging brains and set them up for academic curiosity, resilience, and success.

Projects To Be Completed

Home and School Connections
Play Center and Activities
Play Center Design and Reflection

Prerequisites

Basic computer file management knowledge, e.g. opening, saving, and uploading files, creating folders, basic word processing skills such as using tables
The ability to take a screenshot of your computer and paste it into a table.

Materials

Computer
Word Processing Software (MS Word, Word for Apple, etc.)
Internet access
Adobe Reader 11.1.01 or later required to edit and save coursework

Professional Learning Objectives

Using course text and recommended online resources, teachers will…

Use tips for building strong home and school connections and dealing with difficult parents to construct a letter home that utilizes content learned in course content with 100% completion.
Analyze three different student scenarios and justify supports for a strong home and school connection with 80% accuracy.
Watch Video: Edutopia, Engaging Pre-K Learners and respond to questions with 80% accuracy.
Use resources from the course and professional expertise to create Pre-K Activities with 100% completion.
Use resources from the course and professional expertise to design a play center appropriate for emergent learners with 100% completion.
Respond to Reflection questions with 100% completion.

Common Core Standards

ELA-LITERACY.WHST
ELA-LITERACY.RI.
ELA-LITERACY.RST
ELA-LITERACY.CCRA
ELA-LITERACY.WHST