IEL Electronic Newsletter
2008, Issue 6
New IEL Tip Sheets in English
- Get Growing! Learning about Seeds
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/garden-seeds.htm - Toys from Throwaways: Let's Recycle!
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets/toys-recycle.htm
New IEL Tip Sheets in Spanish
- Juguetes elaborados con materiales desechados. ¡Reciclemos!
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/toys-recycle-sp.htm - El Método de Enseñanza por Proyectos. Cómo ayudar a los niños a hacer preguntas
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-sp/projects-questions-sp.htm
New IEL Tip Sheets in Polish
- Your Child’s First Day in Preschool
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-pol/firstday-pol.pdf - Encouraging Child-to-Child Conversation
http://illinoisearlylearning.org/tipsheets-pol/conversation-pol.pdf
New Parenting Video Clips & Resources
Four new video clips have been added to the IEL Web site!- The first two videos show a mother and a father reading with their 4-year-old son who has special needs. The mother, reading in English, illustrates a number of ways to engage the child while sharing one of his favorite storybooks. The father, reading in Spanish, uses several strategies that help sustain the boy’s interest in a book and strengthen his familiarity with Spanish. To view the videos, please go to http://illinoisearlylearning.org/videos/connecting-concepts.htm and http://illinoisearlylearning.org/videos/reading-partners.htm.
- In the third video, a mother and her 3-year-old daughter engage in pretend play with some familiar toys. Joining her daughter in pretend play allows the mother to model play skills, extend pretend play, help build vocabulary, and promote problem-solving skills. In the fourth video, by listening carefully to her daughter, the mother discovers things she can help her daughter understand in areas such as counting, good manners, and nutrition. To view the videos, please go to http://illinoisearlylearning.org/videos/dog-shark.htm and http://illinoisearlylearning.org/videos/going-camping.htm.
- Accompanying each new parenting video are additional strategies for reading to or playing with young children, related IEL Tip Sheets, and other resources.
Search Early Learning Web Links
Have you used the Early Learning Web Links recently to find resources to help achieve the Early Learning Benchmarks? You can search by selecting keywords or phrases, age level, audience, reading level, setting, and learning area. To find resources, go to http://illinoisearlylearning.org/cgi-bin/iel/searchiel.asp.Illinois Projects in Practice Web Site
What is a project? A project is an in-depth investigation of a topic undertaken by a class, a group of children, or an individual child in an early childhood classroom or at home.
If you are looking for information related to the Project Approach, please visit IllinoisPIP at http://illinoispip.org.
IllinoisPIP (Illinois Projects in Practice), maintained by the Illinois Early Learning Project, facilitates communication among educators who have completed either Projects in Practice or Great Expectations training. Features of IllinoisPIP include examples of projects, links to project resources, citations of research on the Project Approach, a blog by Lilian Katz, and a calendar of training events. For more information on the Projects in Practice or Great Expectations training events, please call The Center at 224-366-8525, or go to the training calendar at http://ecap-webserver.crc.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/calendar/calendar.asp?c=PIP .
New on IllinoisPip
- A new tip for Supporting Teachers’ Implementation of Project Work has been added to the Directors’ Corner. To read the tip, please go to http://illinoispip.org/directors/tips.htmlEditor's note: This url has changed:http://illinoispip.org/directors-corner/tips.html.
Visit Us at a Conference Near You!
- The Women’s Business Development Center will sponsor the Child Care Business Conference on June 21, 2008, at Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, please email wbdc@wbdc.org. (IEL exhibit)
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