In supportive early childhood settings, adults' nurturing relationships with children serve as the foundation for learning. Through this media program, you'll gain strategies for interacting with children in three key areas: participating as partners in children's play, conversing with children, and encouraging learning in curriculum content areas through adult scaffolding. With footage from the HighScope Demonstration Preschool, Part 1 of this program offers an illustrated summary of strategies in these three areas, and Part 2 offers a selection of unnarrated scenes of adult-child interactions to discuss and consider.