Pre K Learning: Positive Classroom Interaction Goes a Long Way

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“Pre-K classrooms ought to be a place where people enjoy learning together.”

For the first time, research has proved what many educators have believed to be true: 

Children acquire better cognitive learning skills in a classroom infused with “positive interactions.”

Dale Farran, senior associate director of the Peabody Research Institute at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College for education and human development, says that positive interactions in a pre-kindergarten classroom may be equally or more important to the future academic development of 4-year-olds than learning letters and numbers. 

It was also noted that children in classrooms infused with more positive behaviors made gains not just academically, but in behavioral regulation as well.

Read more on the study at the link.


Positive Interactions Vital to Learning