Mentorship:
The Lucy Brock Child Development Lab exists as a professional development site for individuals planning to work with young children. Opportunities are provided for graduate and undergraduate students to observe children from infancy to kindergarten grow and develop while observing best practices, studying constructivism, receiving mentorship from early childhood educators, and refining their knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice.
Take a look below to see the most current ways the educators at the Lucy Brock Child Development Lab are currently impacting the field of early childhood education through mentorship:
Lead teacher Juliana Phillips collaborates with a practicum student on the process of creating a pedagogical documentation to make learning visible. Throughout their practicum experience, students study the Cycle of Inquiry, while immersed in a classroom environment, and are mentored through observing children's play, identifying threads of interest, provoking learning, thinking about children's thinking, and making children's learning visible through documentation.
The Lucy Brock Child Development Lab hosted App State Academy at Middle Fork kindergarten educators. Cassandra Parrish and Juliana Phillips highlighted constructivism in early childhood, multi-disciplinary learning environments, playful learning, emergent curriculum, and individualized curriculum planning through a collaborative tour!