Ask HN: What are you favorite resources on children's education?
I’m looking to learn more about early childhood education. What books, podcasts, articles do you recommend?
Small children are highly counter intuitive, and the “usual” way of dealing with them is not very good (what you see in movies, what people tell you to do, what you feel society commands you to do). Confronting a young child’s mind to an adult’s way of thinking can lead to serious clashes.
Faber and Mazlish have a practical approach that is neither too permissive nor punitive. They mostly give you tools that you can use in various situations, and that work really well.
Things like repeating what the child just said, or describing their emotions, or using positive reinforcement. It feels very weird when you do it the first time, but then seeing how it works is amazing. And then you’ll see that the best early-childhood professionals do these sort of things all the time.
So, for example, tell us, do you want to be a teacher? Are you a parent? What resources have you already read? What country are you in? What are your previous experiences?
Personally, my favourite resources are books.
My top tip for raising children is to read to them all the time, and to have lots of books available.
Yes it is a lot of work, but we are talking about children.
And I am assuming you are serious about doing it well.
Good luck.
my mom is a teacher, i assisted in our preschool before, and i've dated college students who are taking educ before - the theories, the frameworks, the lesson plans, and very act of teaching, all of it takes a LOT of effort.
materials wont cut it. you'd want to spend time with people with real world teaching experiences. there's a reason they have teaching demos, they teach infront of each other and give each other feedback. they're awesome.