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Early Childhood Videos

Center for Early Childhood Education The Center for Early Childhood Education at Eastern Connecticut State University is committed to providing resources valuable to people involved in the field of Early Childhood education. The Center is developing an extensive archive of footage.
Ted Talk: Early in Life and the Importance of Early Childhood Education Stephen Zwolak is the founder and CEO of LUME Institute and Executive Director of University City Children’s Center (UCCC), LUME’s lab school. Zwolak has more than 45 years of experience working in the field of early childhood. He is recognized for leading the conversation on the impact and future of early childhood education in St. Louis and beyond.
Ted Talk: How the iPad Affects Young Children and What We Can Do about It Lisa Guernsey is Director of the New America Foundation's Early Education Initiative. Ms. Guernsey focuses on elevating dialogue about early childhood education, in part by editing the Early Ed Watch blog, and spotlighting new approaches for helping disadvantaged children succeed.

Head Start Resources

Guidance and Discipline

Pre-K Pages Find hands-on lessons, themes, activities, and printables for preschool, pre-K, and kindergarten classrooms.
NAEYC: Guidance and Challenging behaviors Many suggestions for encouraging positive behavior

Acting Out! by Rae Pica Movement is not misbehavior! Current policies in the early childhood field ask teachers to treat children as though they exist from the neck up--even though research clearly demonstrates that the mind-body connection is vital to development. Topics include theory, research, and language to advocate for active learning, suggestions on how to update learning environments, and ready-to-use movement activities that can be easily implemented into the day. Every activity includes a "Curriculum Connection," as well.
ISBN: 9781605546964
Publication Date: 2019-11-05
Managing Behavioral Issues in Child Care and Schools by Mary Margaret Gleason (Editor); Allison Boothe Trigg (Editor); American Academy of Pediatrics This new quick reference guide provides child care directors, teachers, and caregivers with essential information on managing emotional and behavioral issues in group care settings. The book contains 25 quick reference sheets on topics such as ADHD, ASD, depression, tantrums, and separation anxiety. In addition, sample daily report forms, medication forms, and other informative documents to support working with young children are also included in this comprehensive guide, as well as case studies on various difficult situations with small children.
ISBN: 9781610023702
Publication Date: 2020-05-30

Lesson Plans

Five-Minute Film Festival: 10 Sources for Free Lesson Plans An educator's guide to open educational resources (OER), including online repositories, curriculum-sharing websites, sources for lesson plans and activities, and open textbooks.
Education World Connecting educators to what works
Read Write Think ReadWriteThink offers a variety of free materials for both educators and parents with hundreds of lesson plans for grades K through 12. You can search by grade level, type of resource, theme, learning objectives and more.
Discovery Education Discovery Education offers a broad range of free classroom resources that complement and extend learning beyond the bell. Explore their programs and contests, interactive games, puzzles, lesson plans, videos and more.
Children's Music Network A variety of songs, including multicultural, which you can listen to or use in the classroom. Also there are live sessions for various age groups.
Explora Educator's Edition Designed to help teachers with lesson plans, student tools, STEM curriculum standards and more

Special Learning Needs

National Center for Learning Disabilities NCLD provides essential information to parents, professionals and individuals with learning disabilities, promotes research and programs to foster effective learning, and advocates for policies to protect and strengthen educational rights and opportunities.
LDOnline The leading information service in the field of learning disabilities, serving more than 200,000 parents, teachers, and other professionals each month.
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities This is the Learning Disabilities page of this organization (which is a source of information on all kinds of disabilities). Offers a wealth of information on LD diagnosis, treatment, organizations, other resources, etc.
International Dyslexia Association A non-profit, scientific, and educational organization dedicated to the study and treatment of the learning disability, dyslexia. It is the oldest such organization in the U.S. that serves individuals with dyslexia, their families, and professionals in the field.

Curriculum Web Resources

Awesome Library Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
Ed Helper Worksheets you may copy for use, and templates to make your own worksheets.
PBS Teachers WFYI and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for Indiana teachers like you.
National Association for Music Education Virtual Teaching and Learning Resources for Music Educators
Zero to Three Early connections to last a lifetime
Free Tech 4 Teachers This blog offers frequent posts sharing all sorts of different free web resources for teachers.
324 Free Tools for Teachers This is a massive list of Free Educational Technology organized into categories for easy browsing.

Images

Public Domain Images

Images are important final touches on assignments for the students or letters for parents. When you start looking for images to use, you need to be careful to avoid ones that are copyrighted. Many image sites offer to sell you royalty-free images (you pay once, and then the image is yours to use forever), but they can be expensive.

Luckily, there are a variety of sites that you can use to find images that are in the public domain - ones that are free for anyone to use, as long as they give appropriate credit to the image's creator.

Here are a few resources:

Editing Images

Sometimes you'll have photos or images that you'll need to modify before you can use them. These sites all give you the ability to do simple editing on images.

Early Childhood Education: Teaching Resources

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