teacher resources
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Friday Freebie – Professional Development Plan
Happy Friday! This week I’ve shared a ton of opportunities for professional development – webinars, publications, and really great conferences. Today’s freebie will help you plan and track all of your professional development efforts. These Professional Development Plans are not only helpful, they’re also cute. That’s important because your PD Plan should be something that you want to post and look at every day. Go download yours and have a wonderful weekend!
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Easy Resources
I’m always looking for an Early childhood resource on some topic or another – things to share with families, articles to help teachers that I know are dealing with tough stuff in the classroom, ideas for encouraging best practice, and strategies for managing behavior issues. The first place that I always turn is NAEYC. If you aren’t familiar with NAEYC then you must be living under a rock – I’m joking, but the National Association for the Education of Young Children is a source I trust completely, which is why I look there first. Here are some of my favorite publications from NAEYC: Position Statements: These documents help professionals understand…
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Easy Portfolios and Assessments for Early Childhood
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Free Early Childhood Webinars
One of my favorite things about the field of Early Childhood Education is that things are always changing. This means that I am constantly learning something new about best practices, educational theories and techniques, and innovative strategies. I am a professional development nerd, I love trainings, seminars, and conferences, and I regularly sit through webinars solely because I find the subject matter fascinating. I wanted to share one of my favorite professional development resources with all of you and I’m hoping that you will enjoy it as much as I do. You’ve got to check out Early Childhood Investigations, the free webinars available on this site are written by experts…
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Easy Portfolios and Assessments for Early Childhood
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Friday Freebie – Clip Art Favorites
Happy Friday! This week’s posts have been all about saving money, so I wanted to share one of my favorite tips with you – I love love love free clipart! I also fully believe that my clip art collection has made my newsletters, classroom party invites, and important notes more likely to be noticed and read by parents. Today’s freebie is a fun polka dot flag set from my all-time favorite clip artist, Erin Bradley Designs. You can find more of her work on Teachers Pay Teachers, or on her own site shoperinbradleycom
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Using your local Child Care Resource and Referral
I promised posts this week that will help you save money and find resources for your preschool and child care programs. In my opinion, there is no greater resource than your local Child Care Resource and Referral. According to Child Care Aware there are over 400 Child Care Resource and Referral offices across the US, and while they all offer slightly different services, many of their offerings are similar. For example, at my local Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) they help families locate child care programs that meet their needs, offer professional development trainings and technical assistance to child care providers, provide programming for parents and families, and run…
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Free books for the classroom
I am so excited about the series of posts that I have planned for this week, they are all about ways to save money or find inexpensive resources for preschool and child care programs – who doesn’t love that! Let’s start with how you can get free books for your classroom – yup, free! Books are a necessity in any preschool room, a great way to share new information, encourage classroom communities, and instill a love of reading at a very early age. But books aren’t always the most durable items in a classroom. So whether you need some more to replace your favorite worn out copies, or you’re just…
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My Favorite Resources
In case you missed yesterday’s announcement, there’s a great big sale happening over at Teachers Pay Teachers! You can get in on the action using the information below: I have a tradition here at Preschool Ponderings, when there is a TPT sale I share what’s on my wishlist (you can check that out in yesterday’s post) and I also share some of my favorite items from my store. That’s what today’s post is all about, check out the amazing resources that you can get a great bargain on! Whether you are looking to review numbers that you have already taught, or you want to introduce new numbers, these sets are…
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It’s time for a SALE!
Big news! Teachers Pay Teachers is having a sale Tuesday and Wednesday, and you can get in on the action. I love TPT sales because I can get great resources for even better prices – which means I can get even more stuff! Before every sale I share what’s on my wish list, so here it goes, this is what I’m shopping for: How cute are these penguin shapes from Cherry Workshop?! It includes an entire set of different penguin shapes and matching mats that would be perfect for a math center! I’m also loving this Number Punch Out set from Rebekah Brock. This is such a unique idea, each…
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Fun Stuff for a New Year Celebration
I know that New Year’s Eve has come and gone, but I love to welcome the children back to school after the holidays with a small New Year celebration. It’s hard to come back to school after a break, especially since the last week of school before we left was all about celebrating the holidays. Coming back to the regular routine can be a little boring. This is my way of helping make that transition a little more fun. Here are some of the things that I’ve come up with over the years to put out for the first week to ensure that we have something new to explore while…
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Preschool on Instagram
I follow a ton of great preschool teachers on Instagram, and their photos are a huge source of inspiration for me, so I thought I would take some time to share my favorites with you! playtolearnps: Jamie is always sharing photos from her classroom and all of the activities that she does are simple and easy to re-create. pocketofpreschool: Jackie has the best dramatic play centers, I Love her ideas and the way she includes the children in the work. teachingpreschoolers: Tami’s instagram is the perfect mix of classroom ideas and personal photos, I love when I get to see what my favorite teachers do outside of school teachpreschool: If…
