We’re pleased to welcome a new voice to the blog this week. Alice Wiggins, Early Childhood Program Director of the Core Knowledge Foundation, directs early childhood programs including the development and management of preschool curriculum, materials, and professional development. Before joining CK in 2007, Alice served as the Associate Director of the University of Virginia Preschool Language and Literacy Lab.
She is the author of Preschoolers at Play: Building Language and Literacy through Dramatic Play, and contributing author to Scaffolding With Storybooks: A Guide for Enhancing Young Children’s Language and Literacy Achievement, and Assessment in Emergent Literacy.
This week marks the observation of the National Association for the Education of Young Children’s Week of the Young Child. Alice will blog on five specific recommendations to improve early childhood education, starting with a call for clear and specific early childhood learning standards later today.
I look forward to hearing what she has to say. As someone who will be doing preK at home starting this fall, I would be particularly interested in what parents can do at home to prepare their children for kindergarten-level work.