7 learning zones that boost young children’s conceptual understanding

Lili-Ann Kriegler

By Lili-Ann Kriegler
Community contribution / September 14, 2021

Imagine you enter a preschool or early primary setting and find children at a water tray table, actively pouring rose-coloured water from one container to another.

Play is such a key theme in early years’ frameworks that some teachers suffer decision paralysis about how and what to teach young children.

They have access to tubes, funnels, straws and other containers of all sizes – from thimbles to a 400ml measuring jug. The ...

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By Lili-Ann Kriegler

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Lili-Ann Kriegler (B. A Hons, H. Dip. Ed, M.Ed.) is an education consultant and author of Edu-Chameleon. Lili-Ann’s primary specialisations are in early childhood education (birth-9 years), leadership and optimising human thinking and cognition. Her current part-time role is as an education consultant at Independent Schools Victoria and she runs her own consultancy, Kriegler-Education. Find out more at https://kriegler-education.com

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