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Developing Thinking Skills in Young Children

Cool+Early LearningPrimaryFoundationYear 1 - 2SocialSocial and Emotional Learning

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Course Content

Getting Started

Getting Started

01.

Introduction

02.

Young children as thinkers

03.

Set some learning goals

Thinking In Early Childhood

Thinking In Early Childhood

04.

Bloom's Taxonomy

05.

Closed questions

06.

Development of language in young children

Using Open-Ended Strategies

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

Your Teaching

16.

EYL and NQS

17.

EYLF teaching resources

Reflection

Reflection

18.

Reflection

19.

Taxonomy of learning

20.

Suggestions for collaboration

21.

Congratulations

Course Writers

Instructor 1

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.

Instructor 2

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)!

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