Effective Teaching and Learning (ETL) Hub

The Effective Teaching and Learning (ETL) branch of CEED designs and implements systems to support early childhood providers, children, and families, and to bring evidence-based practices to the field. We strive to improve the early childhood workforce to ensure effective teaching and learning, as well as supportive systems for young children, administrators, caregivers, teachers, and families. 

Our Objectives

• To develop and support the implementation of high-quality behavior guidance policies and practices that can be used to prevent and address challenging behavior in the early years.
• To improve teaching and learning across the prenatal to third-grade continuum, and assess greater understanding of beliefs and practices surrounding bilingualism and bilingual education.  

Our Methods

ETL utilizes several methods in working towards the aforementioned objectives:

• We strive to bring together key early childhood education stakeholders (San Diego County Office of Education, school districts, Head Start, community-based and for-profit child care centers). Collectively, we will shape a common vision for what effective teaching and learning should look like in the early years, based on both research and the resources and priorities of the local context.
• We provide ongoing professional development to early childhood leaders and practitioners via workshops, coaching, unit-bearing coursework through SDSU’s College of Extended Studies, and/or a combination of formats that best meet the needs of our community partners.
• We conduct applied research and disseminate important findings that will allow for continuous improvement and the identification of promising practices that can be scaled up and shared with the broader research and educational community.

'STEPS' program tackles the family child care crisis during COVID pandemic