Infant

Establishing relationships early on in a child's life is critical for that child's development and growth.

High-quality learning environments provide a variety of ongoing experiences that support cognitive development in infants.

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.

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.

What would our practice look like if we lifted up all the mundane tasks of caring to be valued as educational?

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?

Those who work with infants know that babies plus nature equals joyful learning. We tend to keep this age group indoors all too often, however, missing many learning opportunities.

Have commercialism and information overload confused our innate instincts on how to care for children? Two grandmothers submit their advice and cautions in this refreshing article filled with age-old wisdom.

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