Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Education: History, Theories and Approaches to Learning - Softcover

Follari, Lissanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137034466 ISBN 13: 9780137034468

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.

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About this title

From the Back Cover:

More applied than other texts on models and approaches, Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Education: History, Theories, and Approaches in Learning focuses on foundational aspects of early childhood education.  The text provides a fresh look at the issues, firsthand accounts of practice, descriptive views into classrooms, and classroom-based examples and strategies that help teachers bridge theory and practice. 

 

• Reorganized Table of Contents to improve flow of topics
• Expanded Chapter 3 on professionalism
• Revised Appendices and new comprehensive portfolio rubric in Appendix E
• More in-depth support for professional portfolio creation in Chapters 1 and 12
  
• Additional application ideas in Chapters 8 - 11
• Updated NAEYC statements
• New research on Waldorf Education and outcomes in Chapter 11
  
• Integration of MyEducationLab resources throughout each chapter
  
• Streamlined summaries for student accessibility
  

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0137034466
• ISBN 13: 9780137034468
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336