Toddler

Kids will love decorating life-sized portraits of themselves!

Observing infants' play reveals their intentions, feelings, and ideas. Interpreting these cues is where teaching and learning with infants begins.

Teaching and learning with infants and toddlers is most successful when the emphasis is on providing teachers the time and resources they need to create contexts for infants that invite learning to take place.

Toddlerhood, one of the most active periods of life, can be very demanding, especially on the caregiver. However, caregivers can strengthen their toddler’s autonomy and foster self-directed play and learning by creating a supportive…

Infants and toddlers are growing up in a screen-media saturated world. But does that fact change how they learn?

Young children are researchers who are fascinated by the properties of objects and how things work. Offer them loose parts and watch the rich explorations that transpire.

We've all heard how important the first years of life are developmentally, but have we stopped to consider the process of learning to walk and the role it plays in brain development?

Toddler play is very different than that of preschoolers and can be puzzling for adults who don't understand what's going on in their development.

Planning well for toddlers in a group program requires not only an understanding of the age group but a large reservoir of patience, sympathy and good humor!

This article looks specifically at ideas for designing the infant and toddler classroom environment in relation to an understanding of brain development.