Research Facilities
The Pickering Educational Resources Library (PERL) houses materials on curriculum and instruction, including textbooks, tests, and a special K–12 collection. Students in the School have access to all libraries within the University system (including an extensive collection of electronic indexes and journals), as well as the Boston Library Consortium. The University collection is the second largest in New England (behind Harvard) and contains about 2.1 million volumes, with the equivalent of an additional 3.9 million volumes stored on microform, and a growing collection of Web-based resources. University media services include video services and photographic facilities. The School’s Instructional Materials Center supports a wide range of instructional and communications aids: computing and printing resources, telecommunications, photography, audio-visual materials, video technology, and overhead transparencies and graphics. School-based clinics and learning laboratories offer opportunities for research and firsthand learning experiences.
The Early Childhood Learning Laboratory (ECLL) is a preschool affiliated with and located at the School of Education. It is a laboratory and demonstration school available to Boston University students, parents of children in the program, and other early childhood professionals for observing children and teachers. Children whose families live in the local neighborhood primarily attend this open-enrollment school. There are 20 children, ages 2.9-5, in a mixed age group with two licensed early childhood teachers. The preschool program employs an innovative, inquiry-based approach to curriculum design. Teachers determine a topic of study that relates to the children's interest. The concepts or big ideas of this topic are decided upon, and activities are designed to teach those concepts. Teachers continually monitor the children's engagement in the activities, documenting their comments, questions, and interactions in order to make on-going adjustments to the plan and the environment.
The Instructional Materials Center (IMC) is a multimedia technology resource center that supports a wide range of instructional and communication aids, including extensive computing and printing resources, mulitmedia classrooms, telecommunications, photography, audio-visual materials, and video technology
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