As an infant classroom educator, you know that talking to babies is important. For instance, you tell the infants in your care what they are looking ...
Posts by Sherilyn Crump
sherilyn.crump[at]teachstone.com
Sherilyn (Sheri) joined the Teachstone team the summer of 2013. During her years serving as a Head Start Education Coordinator, Sheri became a CLASS observer and then an affiliate CLASS trainer. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Child Development/Family Studies from Western Michigan University and a master’s degree in Early Childhood Education. Her professional experience also includes child-care directing, preschool teaching, parent education, and training adults in the field. Sheri resides in Elkhart, Indiana—though she is a Michigander through and through! She enjoys writing and reading poetry, visiting historic sites and landmarks, watching really good movies, and spending time with family!
Favorite Teacher: Mr. Harrison, 11th–12th grade (US History)
As you know, CLASS® is a tool that captures educator-child interactions. When it comes to the dimension of Concept Development, the focus is on the ...
Originally published December 20, 2021 Though exacerbated by the pandemic, turnover in early childhood education is not a new phenomenon. In 2012, ...
Originally September 15, 2021 How do you make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? I posed that question to a random selection of contacts via text ...
Can we talk about structure? When CLASS® entered my life, I was 20 years into my career in the field of early childhood education. What I remember ...
We have all been there. Admittedly, CLASS Observation training is intense. I never feel too apologetic about that, though I DO have a lot of empathy ...
The scenario: A teacher is sitting with several children having snack, and the teacher asks a student, “What are you going to be for Halloween?” Is ...
In our previous Behavioral Marker Series post, we focused on the often misunderstood marker of “Disconnected Negativity.” As a reminder, CLASS® ...
CLASS® behavioral markers (those bulleted lists of observable behaviors under each indicator on your dimension face pages) are both friends and, if ...
Convincing participants to move off of the manual's face pages, and into the descriptive paragraphs is a constant challenge in CLASS Observation ...