This post is an excerpt from my book "Ready to Learn: A crash course in child development, and how children experience school." In this section, we explore aspects of student experience to envision how instructional planning might be improved. We first consider how student experience does and does not change as children develop. We will begin with what we know. Children experience unprecedented levels of self-regulatory demands during the transition to kindergarten. Even

This brief post is an excerpt from "Universal design supports access, autonomy, and self-regulation," a section of my book "Ready to Learn: A crash course in child development, and how children experience school." Embedding need-satisfying provisions to create a barrier-free environment for diverse users is known as universal design . The term was coined by American Ronald Lawrence Mace. In 1950, at the age of nine, Mace was diagnosed with polio and, by all accounts, experien

Objectives: A. Understand the rationale for applying what we know about EF to address early educational disadvantage related to socioeconomic factors. B. Understand that the success of EF-related early interventions will hinge on the careful definition of cognitive and socioeconomic terms. C. Identify early intervention approaches and strategies suggested by EF research. In recent years, demographically sensitive research methods and models have raised awareness that cognitiv