Full Description
This new edition helps parents, caregivers, and early interventionists prepare curriculum for our youngest learners. To encourage learning, the authors use a three-step approach - Respect, Reflect, and Relate. This book will help all those who care for infants and toddlers to translate their knowledge of child development into effective, individualized curriculum; it will not tell them what to do on Monday, but rather will help them to ask: "How will I make decisions on Monday that truly come from the child's interests?" Through observation, they will choose a response that supports learning and the relationship and therefore achieve the primary goal of an infant/toddler care teacher- to support the parent-child relationship.
Contents
PART ONE A RESPONSIVE, RELATIONSHIP-BASED APPROACH 1
Chapter 1 Relationships as the Basis for Curriculum
Chapter 2 Opportunities for Engaging Families
Chapter 3 Responsive, Safe, and Healthy Caregiving Routines
Chapter 4 A Responsive, Relationship-Based Environment
Chapter 5 Endless Opportunities for Guidance and Relationship Realignments
Chapter 6 Using Observation and Documentation for Responsive Planning and Ongoing Assessment
PART TWO OPPORTUNITIES FOR RELATIONSHIPS AND LEARNING
Chapter 7 Opportunities for Attachment and Emotional Development and Learning
Chapter 8 Opportunities for Social Development and Learning with Peers
Chapter 9 Opportunities for Learning and Thinking
Chapter 10 Opportunities for Language, Literacy, and Music Development
Chapter 11 Opportunities for Movement and Motor Development and Learning
Chapter 12 Opportunities for Fine Motor Development and Learning
Chapter 13 Opportunities for Creative, Symbolic/Dramatic Play, and Sensory Development and Learning
Chapter 14 Opportunities for Learning About the Outdoors
Appendix A Planning Guides
Appendix B Inventory of Teacher Practices
References
Index
