STEAM TIME IS母公司时代

|米拉塔纳|

这是周三在故事室，并有一些平静的音乐在后台播放，而20名幼儿都在努力工作。

一个女孩用滴管挤有色水到咖啡过滤器。她在练习她的钳形抓握时，她开始写这将是有益的。“艾娃”还建设了科学推理的能力，看黄水变成白色的过滤器很浅的黄色，然后看着滤波器转微红的另一部分 - 惊喜！- 看到其中的两种颜色渗入对方变成橘红色的区域。艾娃的母亲在附近徘徊，确保艾娃不转储在地板上颜色的水，并帮助她通过把管道清洁剂在中间打开一个已经彩色滤光片成蝶。

Other kids are matching painted clothes pins to corresponding paint chips from the paint store. These children are learning to match and compare, honing their powers of observation as they differentiate between cerulean blue, azure and blueberry.

最流行的表有沙箱个塑料桶内装满沙子。使用普通的厨房用具像铲，过滤器和长柄勺，孩子们挖画面食，按钮和埋在沙其他的惊喜。儿童使用的解决问题的能力：我怎么能分开周围的沙色的意大利面？哪些工具最好的工作来完成这个任务？哇 - 沙子的淋浴从漏勺下雨下来是肯定爽！

Nearby, a boy and his father are arranging smooth black rocks into animal shapes. “Carlos” carefully stacks the rocks on top of each other. It’s difficult when they’re all funny shapes and sizes and don’t stack neatly like wooden blocks.

Debra Winslow, one of the library’s Youth Program Specialists, is moving from station to station, talking to the parents about the skills their children are developing, making sure that the parents give their children a wide enough berth to explore, and asking questions to help spur curiosity and imagination. She makes sure that the parents and caregivers don’t emphasize outcomes too much. It’s not important whether the rocks really look like an animal or the coffee filter turns into a perfect butterfly. “It’s the process that’s important, not the end result,” she explains.

孩子们在这个SMART启动程序，它发生在奥兰多公共图书馆和三个奥兰治县图书馆系统（OCLS）分支机构按月学习科学，数学和艺术技能。但它不仅是谁正在学习的幼儿。他们的父母和照顾者与他们一起学习。所有活动都旨在在家里被复制，不同活动的价值的解释，家长之间的互动和他们的孩子，并提供给家长的指导是每位一样的技能，重要的是这些小家伙被收购。

在过去的几十年,图书馆员和埃杜cators have understood the importance of parent involvement in storytime to help their children develop pre-literacy skills. In the year 2000, the Public Library Association (PLA) and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development partnered to conduct research on early literacy. Out of this effort came the Every Child Ready to Read initiative, which provided an evidenced-based approach to supporting early literacy practices by involving parents. The PLA and Association of Library Services to Children selected pilot libraries to implement the new approach and have supported training and research on its efficacy ever since (everychildreadytoread.org).

When it was first developed, Every Child Ready to Read represented a departure for many public libraries. “For many decades, parents were not encouraged to attend story hour, as a way for children to develop the independence needed to attend school. Parent engagement programs such as Every Child Ready to Read, however, take a different tack: Librarians can be more influential in a child’s life by teaching the parent how to engage with the child in ways that will foster early literacy” (Celano and Neuman 2015). Libraries have a unique role to play in children’s learning because, unlike child care centers or schools, the staff at libraries have as much time to interact with parents and caregivers as they do children, since the children most often are accompanied in the library by their parents and caregivers.

OCLS’ SMART Start programs, for toddlers and preschoolers ages 2-4, use the same evidence-based approach to create parent engagement in early STEAM programs. Developed by Debra Winslow, SMART Start is built around the philosophy that parents are the child’s first teachers. Library staff facilitate the learning process by creating stations that allow children and caregivers to test out different experiences.

每个智能启动程序包含一个艺术活动，相关的故事，二铀浓缩活动和一个自由探索。读或讲一个故事后，程序员解释了不同的站，并允许参与者探索。每个艺术站上有一个完成的项目的样本。工作人员成为主持人，放置孩子和家长在学习过程的中心。这些活动帮助孩子们学习的空间和形状的认识;写作有用的基本笔画;对象操作用于写入和切削帮助的;比较，分选，测量和测序所必需的显影数学推理;和观察，预测和试验发展的科学认识。

调查结果表明，父母都以更高的速度高于全国平均公共图书馆幼儿识字课程学习。OCLS相比，SMART开始超过在报告中，美国结果所有公共图书馆15个月内早期的扫盲计划项目成果的调查结果调查答复。的受访者参加SMART开始百分之百的报告说，他们学到了一些东西，他们可以与他们的孩子（相比于所有早期的扫盲计划全国92％）分享。所有的家长报告说，他们会花更多的时间与他们的孩子作为计划的结果交互（相对于全国92％）。并再次，SMART开始父母的100％报告说，他们感到更有信心，帮助他们的孩子学习（相对于90％的国家）。

由于图书馆会增加所有年龄段的孩子他们的STEAM节目，他们会很好地涉及父母谁可以在家强化技能，并强调使用的家居用品在花哨的技术以及动手了示范经验。

Sources

切拉诺，唐娜C.，和苏珊·B·纽曼。“图书馆正在成为领导者在父母参与：家长们发现，图书馆提供的机会与孩子玩耍和学习如何提高他们的阅读。”Phi三角洲Kappan，vol. 96, no. 7, 2015, p. 30.

每个孩子准备好读，www.everychildreadytoread.org，上次访问17年4月24日。

项目成果：测量公共图书馆的奥兰治县图书馆区，2017年3月的影响。