A Tour of the Soho Center
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Soho Center's 6,000 sq. ft. facility includes a 2,000 sq. ft. Training Classroom / Resource Library
Soho's collection of 17,000 children's books - many in multiple
editions and from different decades - is available for teacher training
 
The collection includes a wide variety of related props and learning materials to promote children's literacy
Soho's Training Classroom / Resource Library includes thousands of
non-fiction children's books and related educational materials
Sections of the non-fiction collection (a portion of which is shown above) are devoted to animals, archaeology, geography,
Native Americans, American history, earth sciences, nature studies, weather, space, seasons, habitats, anatomy,
and science projects. Several examples follow . . .
Books on early mankind, Darwin, skeletons, and bones (with related materials)
A part of the science section, here featuring astronomy and rocks and fossils
Birds and birds' nets above and the horse section of the animals collection
Part of the American Indian section
A selection from the Architecture section
Part of the "found nature" collection
Books on science projects, health, first aid, and bodies - with related
educational materials (microscopes, magnets, first aid kit, etc.)
Some of Soho's resources for teaching math concepts and operations,
telling time, measurement, weight, fractions, money, and graphing
The math section includes a collection of math-related children's books for toddlers through middle school
Demonstration area for early writing skills, shapes and patterns, and small motor skills
The block area (designed to attract both boys and girls) includes children's books on transportation, farm animals, and
starting school - plus related props.
Part of Soho's collection of "board books" to introduce very young children to picture book reading
Back room - more resources for teacher training
90 drawers of additional educational resources - from art supplies and multi-purpose puppets to animal tails and doctor bags
A-B-C books, "word" books, children's dictionaries and thesauruses plus books on punctuation and idioms
Soho's conference room with a collection of teacher training and parent education books
Another view of the conference room
Some of the thousands of quality children's books that the Soho Center donates to Head Start, schools,
Boys & Girls Clubs, and other child-related organizations to promote children's literacy
Soho's facility also has broadcast-level post-production video capabilities including two AVID Symphony systems
Soho can also shoot in-house or on location
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Over the years, Soho's Resource Facility has been used for a variety of training sessions for child care providers and parents
A teacher training collaboration can include actual demonstrations of excellent teaching - with the option of
full broadcast-level video documentation and post-production for faculty use and dissemination
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