Full Description
Smooth early childhood transitions are key to ensuring positive outcomes for young children the world over--but in today's fragmented early education systems, it's difficult to ensure continuity among programs and services. Early childhood professionals will help change that with this book, the first to propose a comprehensive, practical framework for repairing fissures in the system and making transitions successful for young children globally. A groundbreaking resource for a wide range of professionals--including principals, school-based administrators, program directors, district supervisors, and curriculum specialists--this book brings together the best thinking on early childhood transitions from leading researchers and practitioners around the world. Focusing on both vertical and horizontal transitions, the expert contributors give readers the in-depth guidance they need to
- develop a coherent, connected framework of curriculum and instruction across the pre-K-Grade 3 continuum
- enhance transitions for infants and young children with disabilities and their families
- address the specific issues dual language learners face during transitions
- align early learning standards, curricula, and assessments
- improve all aspects of school readiness--ready children, ready schools, and ready families and communities
- establish continuity between the child's home and school environment
- support the quality and stability of the early childhood workforce
- improve transitions through better accountability policies
- understand how transitions are affected by a wide range of factors, including poverty, cultural and linguistic diversity, and the child's neighborhood
