Full Description
Offering a curriculum focus, this is one of the most accessible introductory early childhood texts. It's an engaging introduction to practical developmentally appropriate practice.Teaching Young Children is organized around five essential elements of early education-understanding child development, play, guidance, working with families and communities, and diversity. These elements are clearly identified and explored in the prose, through boxed features in every chapter, and in one chapter devoted to each essential element. The book also presents many concrete applications strategies so that you'll know exactly what to do, including what traits and behaviors to observe and factors to consider and reflect upon in order to insure that you have a firm grasp on each child's interest and abilities-essential to planning learning activities.
Contents
Chapter 1Chapter 2: Historical ContextsChapter 3: Early Childhood Program ModelsChapter 4: Understanding How a Child Develops and LearnsChapter 5: Play in ChildhoodChapter 6: Guiding Young ChildrenChapter 7: Working with Families and CommunitiesChapter 8: Diversity and Young ChildrenChapter 9: Planning the Physical Environment: IndoorsChapter 10: Planning the Physical Environment: OutdoorsChapter 11: Developmentally Appropriate CurriculumChapter 12: Health and WellnessChapter 13: Supporting Emotional and Social DevelopmentChapter 14: Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies LearningChapter 15: Language and Literacy LearningChapter 16: The Creative ArtsChapter 17: Technology and Young Children
