Lilian Katz
Lilian G. Katz, a professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has been an international leader in early childhood education. She has lectured in all 50 U.S. states and in 43 countries. Dr. Katz also has authored more than 150 publications about early childhood education, teacher education, child development, and parenting.
(Biography last updated: 2019)
Blogs:
- Developing a Class Album
- Documentation: The Basics, Part 1
- Project Work as a Context for Social Development
- The “Bottom-up” Perspective on the Quality of an Early Childhood Program
- A Project on Trees: Suggestions for Teachers
- Helping Children Seek Knowledge and Understanding
- Standards of Experience
- Helping the Shy Ones
- Insight as Part of Teaching Young Children
- How Many Projects per Year?
- Responding to Children’s Interest in a Topic
- Project Topics in Neighborhoods Where Safety Is a Major Concern
- Giving a Project a Narrative Title
- Evaluating Projects
- Thoughts on Leadership
- The Feed-Forward Problem
- Talking Straight to Children
- Building an Appetite for Project Work
- Project Work Engages Young Children’s Intellects
- The Question Table
- Some Benefits of Multiage Grouping
- Documentation: The Basics, Part 2
- The Horse Project (blog)
- Continuity of Contact
- Projects that Strengthen Children’s Sense of their Communities
