Early Childhood Resources
Classroom Management Resources
According to the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scale (ECERS), students should have opportunities to play alone if they choose, in addition to a classroom...
This alphabet chart can be easily printed and laminated. This chart can be kept at various centers in the classroom for children to use as a reference when writing....
This file is a great resource for teachers to send home at the beginning of the year (or whenever a new student joins a class). This resource will help teachers...
Teachers can download the classroom challenges and create a challenge card deck. Students can choose a weekly challenge to foster classroom community.
Conscious Discipline provides an array of behavior management strategies and classroom structures that teachers can use to turn everyday situations into learning...
This is a document with an explanation of the benefits of cooking in the early childhood classroom. This resource includes background information, easy recipes,...
Engaging yoga stories, perfect for indoor recess days and/or classroom mindfullness.
It is important to address issues of race and bias in early childhood settings. Children notice race at a very early age and can begin to categorize people according...
Print and cut pages. Adult will need to cut on the horizontal thick black lines prior to separate cutting strips for students. Students will begin cutting at the...
This is a blank template for a daily sign-in sheet for parent/guardians/caregivers to sign students in and out of the classroom. Each template has a sign-in and...
This guide supports teachers in creating a developmentally appropriate daily schedule for an early childhood setting.
This template serves as a way to have students sign-in daily. Each student has their own sign-in sheet. Teachers can house the sheets in a binder separated by colored...
This resource helps teachers learn how to maximize transition time to reach math instructional goals.
Mystery Doug is a weekly video series for elementary teachers based entirely on questions that real students ask. It’s the perfect five-minute break for your...
This is a guide to using partner talk in early childhood.
Teachers can download these easy note templates to fill out and send home with students. Positive reinforcement is vital to teacher-student and teacher-family relationships....
This website will take you to the resource library for the Pyramid Model for Promoting Social Emotional Compentence in Infants and Young Children. Here you will...
These cards are a great resource to laminate and place on a lanyard, tape up in each center, and place in your substitute teacher plans. These are guiding statements...
This is an easy note to keep on hand to send home when students who have naptime at school forget to bring their blanket back to school for the week.
This is a collection of suggested songs and fingerplays to use in a pre-K classroom. These songs and fingerplays can be found through a simple google search. Each...
The questionnaire should be used as a reflection piece for teachers and staff after challenging behaviors occur. The teacher self-assessment can be completed by...
Teachers may read the document to get ideas for how to create a Safe Place in their classroom. Teachers will learn strategies for how to use the Safe Place with...
This is a selection of resources designed to assist teachers educating during the COVID-19 Pandemic. These resources were developed by the National Center for Pyramid...
eduToolbox® is a resource-sharing portal developed by the Ayers Institute for Learning & Innovation with collaborative support and funding from the Tennessee Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Education's Math & Science Partnership program.
