Developing Thinking Skills in Young Children
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Course Summary
Course Content
Getting Started
01.
Introduction
02.
Young children as thinkers
03.
Set some learning goals
Thinking In Early Childhood
04.
Bloom's Taxonomy
05.
Closed questions
06.
Development of language in young children
Using Open-Ended Strategies
07.
Open-ended questions
08.
I wonder...
09.
Open-ended questions example
10.
Open-ended questions during play
11.
Closed and open-ended activities
12.
Creating open-ended activities
13.
Open-ended activity example
14.
Open-ended questions during an open-ended experience
15.
Quick check-in
Your Teaching
16.
EYL and NQS
17.
EYLF teaching resources
Reflection
18.
Reflection
19.
Taxonomy of learning
20.
Suggestions for collaboration
21.
Congratulations
Course Writer
Heather Kerr helped to write this course. Heather is an early childhood educator who has been recognised as an innovative and exemplary practitioner. She has worked in early childhood for almost four decades as a teacher, deputy principal, parent- infant programme facilitator and outdoor environment coordinator. Heather has worked with hearing impaired, speech and language delayed children and mainstream. As an educator she is interested in language and speech development and its connection to thinking and learning and in creating rich, authentic learning experiences for young children.
Mark Drummond from Cool Australia is your course teacher. He has worked in the education sector for over 11 years as a classroom teacher, Leader of Pedagogy within an Ed-Tech startup and as an educational consultant. Mark is an absolute science nerd and loves talking about dinosaurs as much as he loves talking about education (which is a lot)!