Best Practices

Chapter 2 of "The Intentional Teacher" outlines what is called best practices-approaches used to "foster children development and produce real and lasting learning." (Epstein, 2007). The author briefly but thoroughly covers the physical learning environment, scheduling, interacting with the children and building relationships with families. There is an especially useful insert provided gleaned from a High Scope article regarding children with special needs. This includes a great group of suggestions for seven types of categories from Learning Disabilities to Emotional Disturbances.