Nurturing Creativity: An Essential Mindset for Young Children's Learning

Inspiring and supporting innovative thinking

Young children have great capacity for creativity that thrives when it is nurtured. Early childhood teachers have the opportunity to inspire children’s innovative thinking and doing by

- Including creative opportunities across all domains of learning
- Designing a beautiful space that encourages children’s experimentation and play
- Extending children’s learning and challenging their thinking
- Documenting children’s thought processes and displaying their work
- Involving families and the community in children’s creative endeavors
- Reflecting on your beliefs and practices about creativity and nurturing your own creativity

Learn how to support children as they problem-solve, explore and share new ideas, and collaborate with others, and watch their confidence and capableness grow.

• Expressing Creativity in Preschool (The Preschool Teacher's Library of Playful Practice Set)
• Powerful Interactions: How to Connect with Children to Extend Their Learning
• Basics of Developmentally Appropriate Practice: An Introduction for Teachers of Children 3 to 7 (Basics series)
• From Play to Practice: Connecting Teachers' Play to Children's Learning
• Serious Fun: How Guided Play Extends Children's Learning (Powerful Playful Learning)
• Theories of Childhood, Second Edition: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky (NONE)
• Diversity in Early Care and Education: Honoring Differences
• Creative Activities and Curriculum for Young Children
• Making and Tinkering With STEM: Solving Design Challenges With Young Children
• So Much More than the ABCs: The Early Phases of Reading and Writing