Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child - Softcover

Hendrick, Joanne; Weissman, Patricia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137034113 ISBN 13: 9780137034116

Publisher: Pearson, 2010

Synopsis

Prepare with the Power of Classroom Practice.

· Complete Assignments and Activities to apply text content to real classroom situations.
·  Authentic classroom video shows real teachers and students interacting, and helps prepare you for the classroom.
·  Explore the Building Teaching Skills and Dispositions exercises to practice and strengthen the skills that are essential to teaching.
·  Case studies offer real-life perspectives on common issues and challenges faced in the classroom.
·  Authentic student and teacher classroom artifacts provide you with the actual types of materials encountered every day by teachers.

About this title

About the Author:

Joanne Hendrick is  professor emerita of early childhood education from the University of Oklahoma.  In addition to raising four children of her own, her practical experience includes working with children at Stanford Speech and Hearing Clinic, directing a parent-child workshop, working in Head Start, and chairing the early childhood areas at Santa Barbara City College and the University of Oklahoma.  She holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University in disorders of speech and hearing, and graduate degrees from the University of California in counseling and early childhood education.  She is past president of the California Association for the Education of Young Children.

Her current interests include gardening, photography, traveling to exotic places, writing about young children, and enjoying her 10 grandchildren.

 

Patricia Weissman began her early childhood career as a family care provider for two infants.  Having found her calling, she studied early childhood education in the master's program at San Francisco State University and received a doctorate of education from the University of San Francisco.  During the past 25 years, she has worked as an infant caregiver, a preprimary teacher, a center director, a Child Development Associate(CDA) advisor, a professor of early childhood education, and a research associate in early childhood development at the Merrill-Palmer Institute of Wayne State University.  She was the founding editor of the journal Innovations in Early Education:  The International Reggio Exchange.  Dr. Weissman also designed and consulted on the production of the Public Broadcasting Service video series titled The Whole Child: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0137034113
• ISBN 13: 9780137034116
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408