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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
x, 164 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to using the project approach when teaching young children with special needs. While focusing on children's individual strengths, which include their interests, intelligences, and unique styles of learning, this resource demonstrates teaching strategies that address multiple areas of development. Using scenarios from their own practice, The authors examine the process of accessing children's strengths...
Author
Publisher
Redleaf Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practice -- the success of children they teach depends on it. This book analyzes how ineffective practices are driven by unexamined public policies and why educators need to challenge their thinking in order to make a difference in children's lives. A very complex story about public policy and the importance of teaching is told while engaging the reader...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (174 pages)
Language
English
Description
"For over 15 years, researchers have described a crisis in early learning classrooms in the United States. Hundreds of children are expelled from child-care programs and preschools every day, a rate nearly three times that of kindergarten-12th grade students. While policymakers have taken steps to mitigate this crisis, disparities in who is expelled persist. Boys and Black children are routinely over-represented among those pushed out of the exact...
Author
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NAEYC volume 146
Pub. Date
1995
Physical Desc
ix, 182 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"This fourth edition of the bestseller begins with a new chapter, "How Children Really Learn," which summarizes insights from mind-brain education research, showing how experiences firmly rooted in children's curiosity and interest build intellectual capacity. The book then introduces the Project Approach with step-by-step guidance for incorporating child initiation and direction into curriculum while simultaneously addressing content standards. A...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In this fully revised second edition of the classic Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic, Constance Kamii describes and develops an innovative program of teaching arithmetic in the early elementary grades. Kamii bases her educational strategies on renowned constructivist Jean Piaget's scientific ideas of how children develop logico-mathematical thinking. Written in collaboration with a classroom teacher, and premised upon the conviction that children...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 68 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 cm + 1 CD-ROM
Language
English
Description
Children begin to learn mathematics well before entering school. Children form the basis for mathematics development through everyday interactions such as giving each friend at the table one cookie, dividing cookies between friends, or counting how many objects they have. Teachers can foster this naturally occurring course of development by providing intentional experiences based on their knowledge of mathematical development. This knowledge can...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound color ; 4 3/4 in. + CD-ROM, 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to incorporate literature and interactive reading into the classroom, discover how to promote children's awareness of print, and explore how to integrate literacy throughout the early childhood classroom.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 CD-ROM
Language
English
Description
Creating an environment that supports social studies concepts can be challenging. Discover how to encourage children to work collaboratively, respect and value others, become contributing citizens of a community, and construct knowledge of time to support history content standards. This film focuses on setting up an early childhood classroom for a community of learners, allowing teachers to incorporate social sciences concepts into lessons in developmentally...
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