We\u2019ve been working on – in childcare centres throughout a number of different childcare centres in Toronto. We have a coaching model. We do some didactic teaching, a small amount of didactic teaching that we do for the early childhood educators. But we\u2019re also going to childcare centres and we have coaches who go in and then try and improve by showing, by videotaping how the educators are being with and talking with the kids, how they\u2019re building on their interest. We show those videos back to them and we try and improve their practice by really a greater awareness on their part of how they\u2019re interacting with the kids. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019re on our second wave of intervention and so we\u2019re just tracking all of the educators at the moment. But I think what is critical in this \u2013 when we\u2019ve looked at a lot of longitudinal data on this process what is critical is about how people \u2013 the effect on children\u2019s language. So, I think the issue of how you watch what the child is interested in, build on that. So, you follow a child\u2019s initiation, you build on that. The child then gives you something back. You build on that. All of that turn taking in the context of what the child is really interested in seems to have an important effect on that early language development, and that early language development in turn is important for executive function, children\u2019s reading, their theory of mind. So, the language itself seems to be a critical organizer early on in the children\u2019s development for these skills that are totally important to us later on around the kid\u2019s ability to self-regulate and learn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have this very simple measure that we\u2019ve been able to develop and it\u2019s a good sort of scientific measure. We\u2019ve been able to look at whole families and how whole families contribute to the development of this and that \u2013 so, you know, we get effects of fathers, we get effects of mothers, we get effects of siblings and I think what\u2019s important about that is it\u2019s really about an enculturation process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, you have everyone in the family doing it and I think cognitively for the child it makes it much easier to build up that skill themselves. And so, I\u2019m thinking that the same thing will be operating in childcare centres. The more teachers around you, the more children around you who are able to pick up on what you\u2019re thinking about and looking at and interested in and respond appropriately, I think the more that builds the cognitive structure for the skill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the context of the childcare is you have three or four children there and you\u2019re trying to have the educator sensitive to all of those kids and lift all of those kids. So, we\u2019ve been thinking about how you do that and how you get the kids not being rivalrous or difficult with one another, how you support the individuality of each kid and what they have to offer to the group. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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