Q&A FROM WEBINAR: Teaching in the Digital Age: Smart Tools for Early Learners
Focusing on the early education classroom, this webinar will explore how you can utilize interactive whiteboards, mobile computing, and simple traditional ways of using technology. Brian will explore various ways to thread technology into units, investigations, and inquiry projects.
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How the Field of Early Childhood has Changed Over the Years
Sue Bredekamp is presenting a Hatch Super-Power Webinar on March 15th titled: Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education. Participants can expect to learn about effective practices in curriculum and intentional teaching strategies that prepare children for...
Early Learning Technology ROI: It’s Not Just About Numbers
Earlier this year The Center For American Progress, a nonpartisan research and educational institute in Washington, DC, released a report entitled “Return on Educational Investment: A district-by-district evaluation of U.S. educational productivity.” The authors of...
Hatch Gives A Non-Verbal Student The Opportunity To Show He Can Learn
Working with non-verbal students is one of the greatest challenges any special education teacher will face. It can be difficult knowing what’s effective when the student isn’t able to express him or herself. But teachers have found that Hatch technology is often a...
Why the App Gap is Important to Educators
A couple of months ago, in a blog entry called Kids and Screen Time – Lots of Numbers But What Do They Mean?, I referenced a research study from the non-partisan, not-for-profit organization Common Sense Media entitled Zero to Eight: Children’s Media Use in...
Why Terminology about Children and Technology Matters
As the Research Director here at Hatch Early Learning, I spend a substantial amount of time reading about children and technology. This includes research, policy, practice, and opinion. I have observed a trend that I feel warrants noting and this is the case of...
Introducing WePlaySmart, Our Latest Innovation
For a while now, we here at Hatch have had a pretty big goal – to create an entire suite of products for the “21st Century Classroom” that would meet the needs of and support success for both teachers and students. TeachSmart was the first part of the suite, and...
Certain Behaviors May be ‘Normal’ but Not Productive for Young Children
The explanation given in the recent ExchangeEveryday article (1/24/2012) around swearing in preschoolers was informative and it is indeed important for early childhood educators to understand the ‘why’. However, as natural and normal as this may be for some...
Can I Add If I’m Mad?
The impact of social and emotional skill development on transition into Kindergarten
If a child doesn’t know how to read, swim, multiply or divide, we teach.
But what if a child doesn’t know how to perceive or regulate emotions; listen and pay attention; or...
Tips for Buying Early Learning Classroom Toys and Supplies
I used to teach pre-kindergarten and kindergarten so it is great to be able to combine my classroom experience and understanding of scientific principles to ensure all products we sell are THE VERY BEST. Before selecting something that will be included in the Hatch...
Q&A FROM WEBINAR: Teaching in the Digital Age: Smart Tools for Early Learners
Focusing on the early education classroom, this webinar will explore how you can utilize interactive whiteboards, mobile computing, and simple traditional ways of using technology. Brian will explore various ways to thread technology into units, investigations, and inquiry projects.
Extreme Makeover Builds School…Hatch Technology Builds Students
When the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition team needed the nation’s premier total classroom solutions supplier to help rebuild a preschool for an upcoming episode, we were so excited they turned to Hatch Early Learning! Little did we know just how special this...
Technology Builds a Bridge: Schools and Parents Collaborate to Close the Achievement Gap
Technology Builds a Bridge: Schools and Parents Collaborate to Close the Achievement Gap
Teachable Moments Make Ordinary Extraordinary
“The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may be cooking…playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center…....
Tips for Integrating Multiculturalism and Diversity into the Preschool Classroom
Children learn about diversity through play, including music, clothing, foods, games, celebrations, and dramatic play. This approach also supports the ecological systems theory (mentioned in an earlier preschool diversity post known as the Broffenbrenner Ecological...
