-: Bringing new ideas to the table,
having interesting and challenging curriculum
for the students.
Building strong relationships
not only with the children, that's expected,
but with the families as well.
Working with the families to raise the children.
Being accepting of families,
everybody parents a little differently.
Accepting that and honoring different values.
That makes a stand out teacher.
Bringing new ideas to the table, as I said,
you know we really want to be continuing to get better.
Any new idea that you have,
new research that you can share with us,
new findings, new articles, that's a strong teacher.
I would also say, if you have an opportunity
to do early childhood student teaching, take that.
That was probably one of my most important classes,
working under a professor
who is teaching me
how to teach and interact with young children,
invaluable to me.
And if I could tell students to do that, absolutely,
and The Lab School is excellent.
Exchange Magazine is always, always a good one.
NACEE has a magazine, that one has a lot of great research.
Just the NACEE website, reading through that
is a nice way just to make sure
that you know what's the latest
(chuckling)
in early childhood.
Those are usually probably some go-tos.