Full Description
Methods for Teaching in Early Education is a comprehensive textbook offering a thorough introduction to early childhood teaching methods, with a particular focus on inclusive practices.
Aligned with both NAEYC standards and CEC's Division for Early Childhood recommended practices, this text explores various early childhood teaching principles and strategies, providing useful guidance for identifying and choosing between approaches. Covering topics from child-directed strategies to working with professionals in early childhood, the authors provide extensive support to prepare teachers for classroom planning and instruction. Each chapter opens and closes with representative vignettes of the challenges faced by today's early educators, and helpfully highlights key terms and objectives to inform learning goals. With the addition of sample worksheets, suggested exercises and helpful references, this book fully supports future teachers in understanding how they might implement these strategies in practice.
Methods for Teaching in Early Education will prove indispensable for students of teaching methods courses in both general and special education programs, providing a comprehensive introduction to early childhood teaching strategies relevant for today's inclusive classrooms.
Contents
Chapter 1: Theoretical Approaches and General Guidance in Early Childhood and Early Childhood Special Education
Chapter 2: Considerations for Selecting Behaviors for Instruction
Chapter 3: Reinforcement, Rewards, and Praise
Chapter 4: Introduction to Teaching and Learning
Chapter 5: Planning and Monitoring
Chapter 6: Environmental Arrangement Strategies
Chapter 7: Child-Directed Strategies
Chapter 8: Introduction to Prompting Procedures and Time Delay
Chapter 9: Other Single Prompt Strategies
Chapter 10: Introduction to Prompting Hierarchies and the System of Least Prompts
Chapter 11: Other Prompting Procedures and Determining which Procedure to Use
Chapter 12: Procedural Variations for Increasing Learning
Chapter 13: Behavior Reduction Strategies
Chapter 14: Teaching throughout the School Day
Chapter 15: Working with Professionals in Early Childhood
Chapter 16: Specific Considerations for Coaching Families
