Celebrating Cultures, Celebrating Lives

Welcome to Tool Box, where we celebrate the beauty and diversity of global cultures! Explore cultural competence through our blog. Join us as we share insights, stories, and traditions from around the world. We're thrilled to have you as part of our community.

Our past topics of discussions

We're excited to delve into the significance of topics like play-based learning, feelings and how can healthily express them, and the RERUN strategy across different cultures, understanding how they shape our world and individual experiences. These articles and videos  all for you to explore other topics, strategies, and practices that are important to us in the classroom. 

Play-based learning

This article focuses on the important of play-based learning in early childhood classrooms. It explains how in improves a child's whole development while also being excited to learn by making their own decisions. 

 

Zosh, J. M., Gaudreau, C., Michnick Golinkoff, R., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2022). The power of playful learning in the early childhood setting. NAEYC. https://www.naeyc.org/resources/pubs/yc/summer2022/power-playful-learning#:~:text=Learning%20Through%20Play:%20A%20Play,presence%20of%20a%20learning%20goal

Regulating feelings and emotions

In this video, you are able to see different ways you can help your early learner express and regulate their feelings and emotions. 

Yale University. (2016). Helping Toddlers Regulate Emotions. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-H14NNUYwVc

RERUN Method

This article is more of an tutorial of how you can use the method RERUN for dialoging. But, RERUN can be used in many situations in the classroom. 

Georgetown University. (2019). Tutorial 10 · implementing and evaluating ECMHC services. Activity: Outcomes. https://www.ecmhc.org/tutorials/competence/mod3_6.html