Introducing the Guest Blogger for February – Brian J. Puerling, MS, NBCT

ANNOUNCING MATH AT HOME’S

Brian J. Puerling, MS, NBCT

Welcome to our guest blog! Each month, we feature a different guest blogger with valuable insights and information to share about young children and math. Our February 2019 guest blogger is Brian J. Puerling, MS, NBCT, who will write four blog posts about integrating digital technology into your early math instruction by creating your own I-Spy and stop-motion videos, teaching computational thinking and coding with the Daisy the Dinosaur app and fostering the development of spatial skills with Toca Builders, a virtual building app that uses friendly robots to help children “build” their own virtual worlds.

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blog—and join in the conversation by asking questions or leaving comments at the end of each post. We’re excited about this latest chapter in the Math at Home project—and we hope you are too!

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About our guest blogger

Brian J. Puerling, MS, NBCT

Brian J. Puerling

Brian J. Puerling, MS, NBCT, is the director of education technology at the Catherine Cook School in Chicago, where he works with teachers to connect students to new technologies that offer innovative ways to explore, play and learn.

An early career fellow and former guest blogger for the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media, he is the recipient of the National PBS Innovative Educator Award and the National PBS Teachers’ Choice Award.

A former preschool teacher for the Chicago Public Schools, Puerling has worked as an early childhood teacher coach, a curriculum reviewer and a professional development facilitator for the Chicago Public Schools and the Rush University Medical Center Science and Math Excellence Network.

As a consultant for PBS, he is currently developing an online, self-paced course for preschool teachers entitled Exploring the Partnership Between Meaningful Media Creation and Environment to Support Science Learning.

He also serves as an educational consultant for Nickelodeon and is a former member of the Nickelodeon Curriculum and Content Advisory Board. As a former member of the Sesame Workshop Teacher Council, he shared his knowledge of trends in early childhood education and technology to help guide the planning for Sesame Street television shows.

Puerling is also the author of the Teaching in the Digital Age series, which includes Teaching in the Digital Age: Smart Tools for Age 3 to Grade 3 (Redleaf Press, 2012), Teaching in the Digital Age for Preschool and Kindergarten: Enhancing Curriculum with Technology (Redleaf Press, November 2017) and his soon-to-be-published book, Teaching in the Digital Age to Support Social-Emotional Development in Young Children (Redleaf Press). He is currently working on the fourth book in the series, which outlines practical strategies for integrating technology into early learning.

Puerling holds a master of science degree in early childhood education from the Erikson Institute, a bachelor of science degree in early childhood and elementary education from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and a Certificate of Advanced Education Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

TOCA BUILDERS IMAGE AT TOP COURTESY OF TOCA BOCA. ART BY EMIL BERNER.

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