{"id":1679,"date":"2018-10-21T03:08:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T03:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/?page_id=1679"},"modified":"2018-10-23T02:11:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T02:11:18","slug":"early-childhood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/?page_id=1679","title":{"rendered":"Early Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

What lies at the heart of education?\u00a0 While there are many important characteristics we may associate with superb teachers and classrooms, the critical quality underlying them all is INTENTIONALITY.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As an educator intentionality means working to align practices with principles.\u00a0 Ultimately, every element of a classroom (or a home) ought to have a reason for being the way it is.\u00a0 Being intentional means thinking back and thinking ahead — reflecting upon how we\u2019ve been doing things until now and reconsidering how we ought to do things differently going forward.\u00a0 Being intentional means struggling to understand ourselves and our children.\u00a0 Being intentional means there is purpose behind the decisions we make, underlying principles that weave together\u00a0our practices into a seamless whole.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Through the lens of intentionality, drawing upon educational and psychological research together with timeless wisdom of the Torah, Hordiner Consulting focuses upon<\/strong>\u00a0six primary areas of classroom practice:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Relationships<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0explores trust, support, and collaboration among children, families, and educators and their impact on learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inquiry<\/strong><\/a> explores the nature and role of questions in learning.
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Environment<\/strong><\/a> explores\u00a0space and time as both an expression of and an influence upon learning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Emotion<\/strong><\/a> explores how we understand and support emotional development in children.<\/span><\/p>\n

Behavior<\/strong><\/a> explores\u00a0the nature of human action and how we understand and change it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curriculum & Pedagogy<\/strong><\/a> explores our understanding of children’s needs and interests as the foundation for learning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What lies at the heart of education?\u00a0 While there are many important characteristics we may associate with superb teachers and classrooms, the critical quality underlying them all is INTENTIONALITY.\u00a0 As an educator intentionality means working to align practices with principles.\u00a0 Ultimately, every element of a classroom (or a home) ought to have a reason for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1679","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1759,"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1679\/revisions\/1759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hordinerconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}