EEC1970 Playlist- Module 02 9 videos
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the teacher's role in pretend play (videative)
Children not only practice familiar routines, but they also invent the scripts that guide how they pretend, such as ordering food in a restaurant, going to the doctor, or having a tea party. These child-authored scripts reveal children’s understanding of what they have seen. That is, a child will act…
Subjects: props
Ages: mixed
Tags: teaching children-teacher pretense
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A Butterfly Landed on Me
Play this video and notice the strategies listed below. Think about their meaning, purpose or effect. Speculate on what the teacher may have been thinking that led to her words and actions. First segment The use of an orange to give the butterfly a safe and attractive perch The hand…
Subjects: outdoors
Ages: fours
Tags: teaching outdoor animals closed captions children-teacher fear gestures
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Blocks in the Bucket
Jenna plays with blocks as she sits on the floor alongside her teacher. As you study the strategies that the teacher uses to extend Jenna’s block play consider when and how she is most successful. Notice how the child gazes at her teacher on multiple occasions and speculate about Jenna’s…
Subjects: blocks
Ages: ones
Tags: non-verbal function communication teaching child-teacher closed captions
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Writing the Word Cat
The teacher recognizes an opportunity to weave early learning standards with a child’s emergent interests by helping Juliana spell the name of animals that will appear in Juliana’s play. She sounds the ‘A’ in ‘CAT’ and does not interfere when Juliana transcribes the sound as the letters ‘X’ plus ‘A’….
Subjects: markers
Ages: fours
Tags: closed captions teaching child-teacher literacy spelling standards writing
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Planning to Paint, then Draw
Four girls find a flat sandstone and decide to decorate it with paint. We see their project unfold over three days, with the teacher encouraging the children to plan what they will paint and how to divide the work among the four girls. The girls offer a list of elements:…
Subjects: paint
Ages: fives
Tags: collaboration planning drawing children-teacher closed captions
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Owen's First Fan
Imagine a child’s joy at discovering a constant, localized wind, aka a fan. Watch Owen explore this controlled event to figure out the boundaries and intensity of its effects. He feels the wind on his face and realizes the source of this invisible force. At first he approaches the front…
Subjects: wind
Ages: threes
Tags: fan wind exploration child-teacher symbolization closed captions
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Talking with Drums
Leah invents ways to maintain a conversation with her teacher by using a drum. As the teacher taps, Leah raises her arm in anticipation of her turn to tap the drum. She models the teacher’s two taps, pauses, and looks as if to say, “Your turn.” Leah withdraws her arm…
Subjects: drums
Ages: infants
Tags: closed captions teaching child-teacher communciation imitation non-verbal
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What Makes these Stars on the Floor?
A faceted mirror ball sprays rays of light throughout the room, radiating outward from the ball, but only when the ball is placed in the path of sunlight coming through the window. Carter created this effect just before the clip began. The action picks up with Carter asking, “Where’d go?”…
Subjects: mirrors
Ages: twos
Tags: cause and effect teacher-child questions closed captions
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An Infant's Toy: Animate or Inanimate
Zuri, one year old, has a pet dog. You will see it cross the foreground in this video. She also has two stuffed animal toys, a tiger and a dog. She makes some moves that make us believe that she expects her toy tiger to keep walking after she nudges…
Subjects: push toy
Ages: ones
Tags: toy animate causation pretense