Curriculum Materials Professional Practice |
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This notebook contains narrative as well as blank forms used by theProfessional Practice (Co-op) Program at the University of Cincinnati.Forms include Student Reports and Employer Assessments to cover each co-op work term. This notebook also contains a focused learning assignmentthat students complete during the work term, which is designed to focustheir attention on one of the common learning outcomes that all studentswill be developing through participation in the Professional PracticeProgram regardless of their discipline area. As each co-op term is completedstudent reports, learning assignments and employer assessments will documentthe learning achieved through participation in the Professional PracticeProgram.
Curriculum Materials Professional Practice
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Curriculum Models and Early Childhood Education: Appraising the Relationship |
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This thoroughly up-to-date and completely accessible book uses a socio-historical perspective to examine the major curriculum models of early childhood education. It examines the approaches of Montessori, Developmental-Interaction, Direct Instruction, Kamii-DeVries, High-Scope, and Reggio Emilia curriculum. Comprehensive coverage looks at each model in terms of purpose and function, impact on early childhood education, theoretical underpinnings, and current evaluations. For parents and teachers interested in early childhood education and curriculum.
Curriculum Models and Early Childhood Education: Appraising the Relationship
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Exploring Your Role: A Practitioner's Introduction to Early Childhood Education |
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This book frames content in a way that defines the “ what, why, and how” of becoming an early childhood educator. It prepares readers for the variety of roles (advocate, facilitator, planner, mediator, etc.) they must assume in working with children, parents, colleagues, principals, administrators, and the community at large. Its innovative coverage focuses on helping readers fulfill these roles in a caring, competent, knowledgeable manner, through case studies, verbatim comments, and numerous opportunities for reflection. Organized around the twelve essential roles and responsibilities of effective early childhood educators as delineated by the NAEYC 'Guidelines for Preparation of Early Childhood Professionals (2000),' coverage includes demographic changes in families, advances in psychology, political influences, cultural diversity, and issues of inclusion. For future teachers of children from birth to age 8.
Exploring Your Role: A Practitioner's Introduction to Early Childhood Education
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Fine Motor Skills & Handwriting Activities for Young Children |
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This practical series is designed to help early childhood teachers, P.E. specialists, special educators, and therapists develop and improve motor skills abilities in all children who have coordination and movement difficulties, ages 5 and up. Each book in the series contains hundreds of developmentally age-appropriate activities to build young children's competence and confidence in specific skills in a positive, enjoyable learning environment. The primary focus is to provide quality teaching, assessment, and remediation to meet the specific needs of each individual child.
Fine Motor Skills & Handwriting Activities for Young Children
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First Steps Toward Teaching the Reggio Way |
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The first book of its kind, this timely, hands-on guide examines how real teachers in real schools are working to grasp the principles of the Reggio Emilia approach and apply them in their every day classroom settings. Written for practicing and future teachers by leading advocates of the Reggio philosophy, it explores the most essential features of this emergent and constructive Italian curriculum by combining discussions of Reggio concepts with examples of their application in American schools. Written in simple, clear language by foremost American and Italian authorities in the field, the book answers the burgeoning need for information on this emergent, inquiry-based, project approach philosophy in early childhood education. Offering practical, real-life examples and advice, it shares experiences of ordinary teachers working to apply the Reggio Approach in their own classrooms, and demonstrates its wide applicability by discussing its implementation in a variety of teaching settings - including preschool, elementary school, with inner city children, in children's museums and more. College professors and practicing teachers in Early Childhood, Education or Home Economics.
First Steps Toward Teaching the Reggio Way
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Integrating Mathematics and Science for Kindergarten and Primary Children |
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This book is designed to facilitate you understanding of how to teach mathematics and science in the most effective way to children in grades K-4.
Integrating Mathematics and Science for Kindergarten and Primary Children
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Interdisciplinary Inquiry in Teaching and Learning |
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Presents a theoretical basis for inquiry learning and describes some of the most notable historical experiments in integrated curriculum development followed by instructional practice. Softcover. DLC: Interdisciplinary approach in education--U.S.
Interdisciplinary Inquiry in Teaching and Learning
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Skills for Preschool Teachers |
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Built around the 13 functional areas of the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, this book is packed with the information future teachers need, whether they will teach in a preschool, child care center, Head Start program, or pre-Kindergarten setting. All of the basic classroom skills are covered, bolstered by a theoretical background and accompanied by practical ideas for applying book concepts with young children and families. Topics emphasize ways to create a calm and happy classroom atmosphere, how to handle emergencies in a way that dissipates children's fears, strategies for supporting children's mental and emotional health, and ideas for helping children cope with traumas in their life. Includes discussions of new picture books; more than 200 children's books; computer programs that support text-recommended hands-on activities; cultural influences on children; and expanded discussion of the ways children make friends. For practicing teachers, administrators, or volunteers seeking CDA certification.
Skills for Preschool Teachers
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Social Studies for the Preschool/Primary Child |
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This popular book provides a multitude of practical ideas, suggestions, and activities that prospective early childhood teachers can use to both interest young children in social studies 'and' integrate social studies with other sciences, art, literature, mathematics, reading, and writing. Because play is the basic means of young children's learning, the book offers a full chapter on the topic and incorporates ideas for 'playing' throughout the material. It also presents a separate chapter on diversity in the classroom, children's literature citations/references in every chapter, and a strong focus on child development throughout. There is a new emphasis on the use of such technology as e-mail, digital cameras, and the World Wide Web in this edition; and, current NAEYC standards for quality, curriculum, and professional preparation are thoroughly incorporated. For social studies teachers at the primary grade school level.
Social Studies for the Preschool/Primary Child
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