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Research
That Matters
Research That Matters is an annual publication highlighting faculty research at the University of Washington College of Education. This edition, A Fair Start: Excellence in Early Chldhood Education, explores the efforts underway at the UW College of Education to broaden our practice and understanding of early childhood education.
Introduction by Dean Pat Wasley
Our innovative researchers are expanding the definition of “school-ready” to include skills that aren’t taken into account in most standardized tests — skills such as social-emotional competence and scientific ways of thinking. They’re also working to find out what it will take to level a playing field where many young children arrive at kindergarten with early learning experiences that don’t prepare them for kindergarten, or with disabilities that their teachers are not prepared to address. ...
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Emotional Literacy
“There are 1,825 days between the day a child is born and the day she turns five and enters kindergarten. During that time, the child is learning to be a social being,” says UW College of Education researcher Gail Joseph, who focuses on children’s social-emotional development..."
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Teaching Pyramid
Preparing young children for kindergarten means more than teaching beginning math and language skills. It means helping preschoolers master the social and emotional skills they need in order to work out problems on their own, exercise self-control, express their feelings, and have positive interactions with others ...
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Cuz Why? Engaging Young Children in Scientific Inquiry
Young children live and breathe science. Playing in the backyard, they stick their noses deep inside a flower, pick up an earthworm to study how it wriggles. They lie on the grass and stare at the sky, their heads full of questions...
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Students with Autism
How can public school teachers engage an autistic student in peer play if the child doesn’t have the words or social skills to communicate? How can they teach both ABCs and self-control to a child who shakes and cries when a daily routine is changed? ...
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Lesson within Lessons
For many preschool teachers, the challenges of attending to all of the children in their care seem magnified when they realize that their class includes several children with disabilities. How can a preschool teacher address each child’s special needs and still provide a rich learning environment for the other children in the classroom who don’t have disabilities? ...
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Breaking the Code
Two young children sit together, reading to each other as part of a buddy reading activity. The first child slides through sentences as she reads out loud. Many words are familiar: her, dress, play, yes. Unfamiliar words she automatically decodes, turning letters into sounds, sounds into words, words into meaning: “yes-ter-day.”...
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Troubles in the New Land
Families immigrating to America pack along their culture, religious beliefs, values and languages, often holding dearly to them in their new homeland. If they learn their child has a developmental disability, they may filter the information through this cultural lens. Questions can take a thousand turns. ...
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