Early Learning & Child Care

This video guides parents and caregivers in nurturing child development by offering novel opportunities for play and learning.

This video illustrates the ways in which children begin to acquire the capabilities that support communication and future learning.

Four videos explore key aspects of early childhood development, focusing particularly on how parents and caregivers build strong, positive relationships with babies and toddlers through everyday interactions.

Focuses on the importance of emotional education during the various stages of childhood development and explains how caregivers and parents can monitor this vital growth.

This program teaches how to create a climate of trust for infants and toddlers, form partnerships with children, and support children's intentions.

This program deals with behavior and development obstacles faced by two different families of young children.

In this video, adolescent medicine specialist Kenneth R. Ginsburg, MD, MS Ed, of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, explains the importance of unstructured play in a child's development.

Aims to demonstrate and promote quality care for young children in family day care homes and child care centres. Click on the link called "NorQuest College Access" to see document.

Growing Minds presents an integrated vision of how the precursors of literacy stem from appropriate experiences provided by thoughtful adults to the children in their care.

This program traces the nature vs. nurture debate, revealing how developmental psychologists study the contributions of both heredity and environment to child development.

This program examines the work of Lev Vygotsky and Jean Piaget, illuminating the similarities of and differences between their contributions to a greater understanding of the cognitive development of young children.

An outstanding resource for preschool providers, parents and early childhood specialists that shows them ways to nourish and develop the genius in very young children.

This program explores the process through which young children begin to reason, plan, and solve both concrete and abstract problems.

Learn the benefits of dramatic play for children's development and across the curriculum. Get ideas for prop boxes and thematic play and see the important roles of adults in supporting dramatic play.

Designed to encourage the viewers to examine their own attitudes towards infant and toddler development and care.

In this program, issues such as understanding, respect, and communication, are introduced though the thoughts and experiences of both parents and caregivers.