Culturally and Linguistically Responsive, Developmentally-Appropriate Teaching: Images of High Quality Early Learning
Presenter
Beverly Falk, Ed.D., Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education at The School of Education, The City College of New York
Session / Time
- Breakout Session I
- Friday, April 27, 10:45 a.m. - noon
- Bedford Room
Description
Cross-disciplinary research underscores how high quality early learning environments support life-long learning and development. This session explores what “high quality” looks like. Presenting findings from a study of preK-2nd grade public school classrooms serving children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, it demonstrates how socially/emotionally-responsive, experiential learning activities nurture the development of 21st century skills and dispositions. Videos of classrooms will be shared, followed by discussion about how teachers can create joyful environments to foster critical thinking, perspective sharing, and social/emotional competencies. Implications will be discussed of how these showcased practices can help to sustain an equitable and just democracy. The use of video as a research tool will also be examined.
Beverly Falk, Ed.D., Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education at The School of Education, The City College of New York
Presenter Bio
Beverly Falk, Ed.D., Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education at The School of Education, The City College of New York
Beverly Falk, Ed.D., is Professor and Director of the Graduate Programs in Early Childhood Education at The School of Education, The City College of New York. She has served in a variety of educational roles: classroom teacher, public school founder and director, district administrator, research, and consultant — at the school, district, state, and national levels. Her scholarship centers on early childhood education, performance assessment, teacher education, and teacher research. Throughout her career, her work has focused on supporting understandings about how children learn so as to ensure that our youngest, most vulnerable citizens — especially those in historically underserved diverse urban communities — have access to high quality learning opportunities.
The founding editor of The New Educator, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal about educator preparation, Dr. Falk is the author of more than 150 publications. Her most recent books are Defending Childhood: Keeping the Promise of Early Education (Teachers College Press, 2012); Teaching Matters: Stories from Inside City Schools, co-authored with Megan Blumenreich (The New Press, 2012); Teaching the Way Children Learn (Teachers College Press, 2008) and High Quality Early Learning for a Changing World: What Educators Need to Know and Do (Teachers College Press, 2018).
