
New Views of Learning
Language
Taught through social conversation. Young child’s speech is elaborated upon.
Content
Focus is on how to learn—how to ask questions and act in variety of settings.
Personalized Learning
Children add to lessons with their own stories related to the topics in hand.
Ability
Individual differences are attributed to children’s prior experiences.


Errors in Performance
Errors are seen as learning opportunities.
Errors reflect child’s perception, which teachers try to understand.
Learning task is messy, requiring child to “figure” out how to achieve good performance.
Participation
There are multiple opportunities for children to participate in group discussions, practice and application of newly taught whole class lessons, paired activities, games and social activities.
Collaboration
Children help each other, each one contributing to a common goal.
Assessment
Children have many ways to show what they know—drawing, acting, writing, building, and so on.
Parent /Teacher Conference
Teacher listens to parents’ concerns. Teacher acts on home-centered information as way to support both parent and child. Child participates in the conference.