Educator Activities

tammymsteele

Aug 3, 20241 min read

Episode 74: Innovative Early Education Outreach that Actually Reaches the Children - Play Smart Literacy (With Michelle Dineen-White & Talmage Steele)

Michele Dinneen-White was working in an early education outreach program when she realized something. The program wasn’t actually...

tammymsteele

Sep 25, 20231 min read

If children must hear and use a new word 24 times before 80% of them can remember it, teachers will need help making sure special words...

tammymsteele

Feb 1, 20191 min read

If children must hear and use a word 24 times before 80% of them can remember it, teachers will need help making sure special words get...

Tammy M. Steele

Jan 2, 20193 min read

Teacher's Guide - Parents as Literacy Leaders

Tammy Steele

Jan 1, 20191 min read

At the Opening Minds Conference in Chicago on January 28, Ruby Payne talked about teaching very young children that experts think...

tammymsteele

Dec 30, 20183 min read

Teacher's Guide - Parents as Literacy Leaders - The Gift of Words: How do Children Learn to Talk?

Tammy Steele

Dec 22, 20181 min read

Open-ended questions do not quiz or test. They are conversation starters because the asker wants to know what the child thinks.

Tammy Steele

Dec 13, 20181 min read

Home visitors can use the VROOM website to help parents deeply appreciate the fact that they are the most important teacher