Your Early Childhood Practicum and Student Teaching Experience: Guidelines for Success - Softcover

Tyminski, Carroll

9780137152902: Your Early Childhood Practicum and Student Teaching Experience: Guidelines for Success

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137152906 ISBN 13: 9780137152902

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Your Early Childhood Practicum and Student Teaching Experience: Guidelines for Success is designed for students who are assuming the responsibilities of teaching young children while receiving guidance and supervision. Students may be taking part in a variety of student teaching experiences. These may include capstone courses for one-year certificate programs and for associate degree programs, practicum experiences in a community college setting, as well as traditional early childhood programs in a four-year university setting. This text offers both theory and practical application to guide each student to a successful conclusion of the practicum and student teaching experience.

New to this Edition!

� Current information on national and state standards

� Reauthorization of RReauthorization of No Child Left Behind

� Assessment of ALL children

� Diverse family structures and family systems such as grandparent-headed families,families with one or more LGBT parents, military families, single parent families, and families experiencing poverty

� Expanded focus on inclusion and working with children who have special needs and their families

� Expanded focus on professional behavior

� Lesson planning with sample formats

� Electronic portfolio development and expanded portfolio activities

� Helpful web sites on each topic

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Review:

"The text has a continual thread about the importance and impact of culture that is valuable. The text provides good guidance on the role of the clinical/cooperating teacher and to build effective relationships. The author provides some useful rubrics for understanding the material. I appreciate the inclusion of information about serving children with disabilities." -Linda Welsh, Austin Community College

"This text is very up to date and reader friendly. The information is appropriate for our students and for the profession. The references used...are current and on the cutting edge. Reflection is a large part of our conceptual framework...this text promotes reflective thinking through the final activities and reality scenarios." -Jodelle Austin, University of Maine-Orono

From the Back Cover:

This text provides insights and useful guidelines for success in any early childhood education student teaching, practicum, or field experience course.

Instructor's Resources: Instructor's Manual and Test Bank, Companion Website at http://www.prenhall.com/tyminski

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