Table of Contents

Infancy and Toddlerhood

Babbling

First Stage Language

:09

In this 9-second clip, a baby babbles while an adult supports them physically.

Cognitive Development - Infants

Infant Nesting Bowls - Spatial Relations

2:30

In this 2 1/2-minute video, an infant experiments with a set of nesting cups and an empty can. He demonstrates mathematical knowledge and geometry and spatial skills as well as initiative and curiosity.

Fine Motor - Infants

Container Play

1:30

In this 1 1/2 minute video, a mobile infant explores nesting containers.

Gross Motor - Infants

Responding to Child's Frustration

1:00

In this 1-minute video, an infant on the floor becomes frustrated while attempting to push himself up. He looks to the adults in the room for support, showing emergent emotional self-regulation skills. An educator responds verbally then assists him, offering a toy, then repositioning him to a sitting position and remaining nearby, providing continued support.

Language Development - Infants

Second Stage Language

:09

In this 9-second video, off-screen adults engage an infant in conversation, encouraging the infant to say "apple" and "please." The child attends to their communication and responds verbally and by using sign language and then imitates the complete phrase with "apple - ee."

Language Development - Serve and Return

Better Brains for Babies

2:21

In the first years of life, babies’ brain makes between 700 and 1,000 new neural connections per second, building critical brain architecture that lays the foundation for all future learning, which is why high quality care is crucial for all children. 

Language Development - Toddler

Third Stage Language

1:00

In this 1-minute video, an adult and child are talking together while the child eats. The adult repeats and extends the child's words and asks the child questions.

Early Childhood

Bandura Social Learning

Bobo Doll Experiment

4:09

During the early 1960s a great debate began regarding the ways in which genetics, environmental factors, and social learning shaped a child’s development. This debate still lingers and is commonly referred to as the Nature vs. Nurture Debate. Albert Bandura conducted the Bobo Doll Experiment to prove that human behavior is largely based upon social imitation rather than inherited genetic factors.

Conservation - ages 3-6

Piaget 3 - 6 - Conservation

3:21 (:20  - 2:45)

This lecture briefly reviews the concept of conservation.  Includes children responding to Piaget's conservation experiments.  

Physical Development - Early Childhood

Drum Dancing

2:00

In this 2-minute video an educator drums and the children and another educator clap and sing. Children get a chance to stand up and dance to the rhythm. The second educator shows awareness of children's needs when he dances with a child who does not want to dance alone. When another child wants a partner, a peer joins her with the educators' encouragement, demonstrating a caring community in the classroom. The children engage in creative expression and gross motor skills by dancing, jumping and spinning. They demonstrate warm social relationships by helping a peer.

Middle Childhood

Kindergarten

Kindergarten Can Be Overwhelming - Some Educators Try to Ease the Way

7:10

The start of kindergarten can be an overwhelming time for students - and their parents. In Portland, Ore., a summer program is designed to ease that transition and help students succeed in that critical kindergarten year.  (August 15, 2018)

Dyslexia

Dealing with Dyslexia

2:57

When Scott Gann learned his son Dustin had dyslexia, he sprung into action--determined to help not just Dustin but other struggling readers in Arkansas as well.  (May 24, 2019)

Homeschooling

Homeschooling in the United States

0:56

Home schooling has gained wider attention and more-mainstream acceptance as the numbers of students learning at home doubled in the past decade—a trend driven in some measure by the expansion of online schooling options. (February 5, 2018)

Adolescence

Identity Development - Adolescence

James Marcia's Adolescent Identity Development

7:25

Marcia's identity statuses: Diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium and achievement.  

Suicide Prevention

A High School Confronts Suicide Prevention Head-On

8:45

Teens are susceptible to suicidal thoughts, and experts says schools are the perfect place to help address those feelings and prevent suicides. Here’s how one Virginia school that is tackling this sensitive topic. (November 14, 2018)

Suicide Prevention - What Schools Can Do

What Schools Can Do to Help Prevent Suicides

3:01

How can schools work to prevent suicides? Here are some tips from those on the front lines - a principal, social worker, teacher, suicide prevention expert, and a teen who needed help. (November 26, 2018)

Play

Associative Play

Associative Play 

1:00

In this 1-minute video, two children play with purses and pretend money in the dramatic play area. The girls use communication to interact with each other and engage in cooperative play as they negotiate which purse and what money each child will have.

Parallel Play

Onlooker Play

:45

Two children play with gears simultaneously without speaking to each other. Example of parallel play. Another child looks on and speaks to one of the children toward the end of the video clip.