Powerful Interactions: How to Connect with Children to Extend Their Learning, Second Edition

In early childhood settings, children and teachers interact all day long. The benefits to everyone—teachers and children—are enormous when even some of those everyday interactions become intentional and purposeful Powerful Interactions!

• In step one of a Powerful Interaction, Be Present, you pause to tune in to how you are feeling and consider how you might need to adjust to create a “just-right” fit with a child.
• In step two, Connect, you let that child know that you see her; are intereste...