A Practical Guide to Early Childhood Curriculum - Softcover

Eliason, Claudia; Jenkins, Loa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136855385 ISBN 13: 9780136855385

Publisher: Pearson, 1998

Synopsis

This popular text stresses the importance of a child-centered curriculum that encompasses the child's physical, social, emotional, creative, and cognitive development. Designed for future and current teachers and others involved with young children, it contains meaningful teaching ideas to meet the needs, interests, and developmental levels of children from three to eight years of age. This text contains lesson plans, activities, recipes, and lists of resources and organizations to help readers with planning and implementing a fully integrated, developmentally appropriate early childhood curriculum.

About this title

From the Back Cover

 

This applied guide to planning and implementing curriculum across the content areas, for children ages 3 to 8, provides students with a depth of background knowledge not usually seen in a text containing practical, highlighted strategies, unit and lesson plans, suggested activities, recipes, and more.

 

Core chapters cover:

-         Social studies (including diversity, social-emotional development, physical activity, and nutrition)

-         Language development

-         Literacy development

-         Science (3 separate chapters)

-         Problem solving and math

-         Music and movement

-         Creativity, art, and dramatic activities

 

Key changes to this edition include a new chapter devoted to assessment, integration of developmentally appropriate practice in Chapter 1, expanded coverage of national standards and how to incorporate them into the daily curriculum, new “Ideas” boxes with specific ideas to support particular topics, and new photographs of children and classrooms.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0136855385
• ISBN 13: 9780136855385
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 543