Karen NemethWho is on your diversity team? By Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. I think every preschool program should have a diversity team. Bring together staff, parents, and members of your community that speak the languages of the...
Karen Nemeth10. Start by getting to know the language environment of the family. Who speaks which language? What is their country of origin? What are some of their holidays and cultural traditions? Be responsive in your...
Karen Nemeth“Parents Partnering with Teachers to Bring Up Multilingual Children” is Karen’s guest post on the Multilingual Living website. Check it out. Parents Partnering with Teachers to Bring Up Multilingual Children Be sure to spend time...
Karen NemethHear Karen’s guest appearance on BAM! Radio from June 2010 here: Settling The Great Bilingual Education Debate Click the download button and an .mp3 file that can be played in most any media players, including iTunes,...
Karen Nemeth“Rules” for Teaching English/Dual Language Learners in Preschool?? A Conversation Starter by Karen Nemeth People are often asking me to just tell them the “rules” for teaching dual language learners in preschool. They seem disappointed...
Karen NemethBy Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. I recently visited a childcare center that had five preschool classrooms. There were children who spoke eight different languages and adults who spoke only three of those languages. The director had...
Karen NemethBy Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. If you are reading this, you must be interested in early childhood education. Now, here’s the question at the core of this post: “Have you given any thought to the children...
Karen NemethBy Karen Nemeth, Ed.M. My last blog, “Meeting the Early Learning Needs of ALL Children – Not Just the Ones Who Show Up”, generated some important questions from readers, and I promised some answers. How...
Karen NemethBy Karen Nemeth I blogged about my concern that high quality preschool is failing to reach some of the neediest children who can’t make it to a program every day. My main emphasis is always...
