Tips and strategies when teaching children

1. MODULE PRESENTATION
Starting Small
Teaching Tolerance in Preschool and
the Early Grades

3. Why is building
positive
Teacher/Tutor-
Child/Tutee
relationship
important?

4. ALL CHILDREN
CAN LEARN
ALL
CHILDREN
CAN LEARN

5. • ENGAGING CHILDREN IN
CONVERSATIONS

6. Tune in and listen to what the child says.
Take turns talking.
Talk about what the child is doing, what the child is
looking at, or what the child is interested in.
Ask questions that relate to the child’s experiences
or interests.
Give the child enough time to respond

8. Children benefit from “thick” conversations.
Thick conversations are characterized by
giving children many chances to speak and
communicate, asking open-ended questions,
encouraging them to think and imagine, and
having many back-and-forth exchanges.

10. 1. Invite children to talk about
what they are doing.
2. Extend children’s
language.

11. 2. Extend children’s
language.

12. 3. Encourage higher-
level thinking.