Library Learning Commons: Early Childhood Education: Media / Video

Do you think Advertising and Media affect you?

Killing Us Softly
Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence.

Learning through Play

Sound, Language and Music Shapes Human Communication
Through a series of innovative studies, Nina and her team have found that our “life in sound” shapes our auditory brain—and that musical training can improve communication and reading skills—throughout the life span.
Toddlers Outdoors: Play, Learning, and Development
Toddlers thrive outdoors. They’ve just learned to walk and the outdoors for them is filled with new things to discover every day. Their curiosity about the world around them is endless. From the tiniest stone or the smallest hole to the excitement of a hill or the force of the wind, toddlers need the variety and stimulation that’s found outdoors.
Infant-Toddler Learning Environment
This program includes real-life examples on how to create a supportive infant-toddler learning environment that invites children to explore their surroundings and supports their sensory-motor way of learning.
Daily Schedules and Caregiving Routines
Eating, napping, playing, exploring objects and people—all infants and toddlers do these things but have varying personal routines from day to day. When caregivers provide consistent but flexible daily schedules and caregiving support, they let children know their needs are met, freeing them to investigate their world.

Communication and Inclusion

Supportive Adult-Child Interactions
This program teaches how to create a climate of trust for infants and toddlers, form partnerships with children, and support children's intentions. It provides information on establishing program policies that promote continuity of care.
I Want All The Turns! Supporting Children in Resolving Problems and Conflicts
As children learn how to find constructive solutions (with teachers' help), they're developing essential communication, empathy, and negotiating skills for use throughout their lives. This program includes a special section on preventing bullying.
Today's Teacher: A Culture of Inclusion
In this program, special education expert Lee Ann Jung takes viewers for an inside look at inclusive excellence in action. Viewers visit several classrooms to see what real inclusion looks like and to discover how it benefits all students, with and without learning differences.
More Time to Teach: Building Community in a Challenging Classroom
This video shows how to develop a unified classroom community and deal with challenges. It examines how teachers can develop skills to create cohesive communities, especially during times of conflict, demonstrating techniques for creating a positive atmosphere even in a difficult classroom.

Playlist

These are set up to be used in individual sections or as a whole.

Early Childhood
This 5 part series explores the importance of creating and maintaining a strong and positive classroom culture.
Secret Life of Growing Up
This 2 part series, is packed with stories of human resilience and reinvention, revealing how humans grow from children into adults.
The Young Child as Scientist
This 11 part series shows how young children use all of their senses to learn and develope.
Digital Storytelling
This 12 part series explains the significance of storytelling, how we use storytelling in education, how we respond to, learn from, and enjoy it, and how it's evolving with help from digital technologies.
Inspiring Differentiation: Pre-kindergarten and Elementary School
This 2 part series recognizes no two students are a like and uses those difference to create engaging, challenging, and joyful learning environments from pre-kindergarten to secondary school.

Every Kid needs a Champion

TEDTalks: Rita Pierson

Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.