Ted Palenski

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Ted Palenski is a teacher in a play-based kindergarten classroom in Connecticut. He graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics in 2010. As an undergraduate working with 3-year-olds in a play-based early-learning environment, he became interested in early childhood education, in both center- and home-based settings.

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Favorite Book Connects Student’s Past, Present Ahmet, a 5-year-old from Turkey, was new to our school. He was very outspoken about some things—usually his ideas about the world—yet almost...
Master Parent-Teacher Teambuilding Teachers admit that building strong relationships with parents of students can be challenging. And most parents and guardians would agree. Building...
Accounting For Missing Men in Early Childhood This just in: Men make up a small fraction of early childhood and elementary school teachers. And for children younger than 6, having a male teacher...
Conflict Resolution Skills Start in Preschool In our kindergarten classroom, there are no desks. Instead, we have three large, child-sized tables, around which 20 children and three teachers can...
Support for Tommy and His Doll Camilla was drawing a doll she was planning to get with her parents over the weekend. She was talking to herself in sing-song tones as she drew the...
Step Back, View Conflict from a New Angle Five-year-old Ellie started off the year on good footing. She not only joined her classmates in play but was able to negotiate with friends when...
Teaching About Differences in Families Editor’s Note: This week’s Teaching Tolerance featured lesson focuses on the rich diversity of family structure. The four-part series helps students...
Make Room for Pirate Girls, Princess Boys One of my fondest and most salient memories from the past school year happened toward the beginning of the year. Joe had just turned 5. He was making...
Listening Early Goes A Long Way Three girls take part in a common kindergarten classroom interaction—planning what they’ll play during morning recess. Recess is a time when children...