Preschool teaching strategies emerge from designing lessons and curriculum. More importantly, these techniques developed by what you want to teach in the preschool classroom. Imagine a preschool classroom utterly blank with only the bare walls and a floor. How would you fill up the room?

Perhaps, you might think you need chairs, tables, rugs, desks, and books. However, you might be surprised that one of the first aspects of setting up a preschool classroom is taking inventory of your teaching strategies.

Traditional preschool teaching strategies

Aside from knowing the basic foundation of collecting books and games for your classroom, you might consider other teaching strategies that can help you. Of course, one of the fundamental areas to focus is the book nook or classroom library. You know that you need books for children to learn all different subjects. Many books may come from the school or academy. You can also collect them from year to year by going to garage sales, discount public library book sales or hold a book fundraiser in your school.

Another preschool teaching idea is to designate areas of dramatic play, writing, science exploration, and reading time. Separating your preschool classroom into sections benefits your students to assimilate different areas of learning. Movement from learning station to another also encourages to practice the transition from one activity to another in future upper grades. While a group of students focuses on writing with various types of tools, another group can learn about problem-solving with puzzles and games.

Other traditional preschool teaching strategies to consider are general areas with building blocks, manipulative objects to enhance fine-motor skills and science centers. While these preschool teaching strategies help in all areas of learning, build your teacher’s toolbox with professional development workshop to continue learning.

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