A Practical Guide to Early Childhood Planning, Methods and Materials: The What, Why and How of Lesson Plans - Softcover

Petersen, Evelyn A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205174043 ISBN 13: 9780205174041

Publisher: Pearson, 1995

Synopsis

This very practical “Guide” is aimed at helping pre-service and inservice teachers put early childhood theories and information into daily practice. Aimed at long range, short range and daily lesson planning, it's coverage of such topics as “How to Plan and Document Individualized Teaching” and “Creating Developmentally Appropriate Lesson Plans” should be useful to anyone working with young children. An excellent, very complete book with step-by-step suggestions for “real world” planning and implementation of developmentally appropriate learning experiences for 3- to 5-year-olds.

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From the Author

This is the first and only book about lesson planning.
All early childhood teachers and caregivers do daily lesson planning, but this is the only book that helps them to do lesson planning effectively and easily, no matter what kind of program it is. I wrote it because both teachers already in the field and students going into the field really need it. We don't need another book full of activity ideas; we need a book that helps teachers organize these ideas so that lesson planning will be developmentally appropriate and so that it documents individualized teaching. This book covers EVERYTHING that impacts lesson planning, from the setting to webbing, from individualizing to ideas for our national priority areas. It is about the process of planning; it is not a canned curriculum. It can be used in any program and with any teaching modules. 1. It teaches systems for planning daily, weekly and long range ACTIVITIES WHICH MATCH THE GRADUAL BUT CONTINUALLY CHANGING DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN WITH DIVERSE SKILL LEVELS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 2. It teaches a system for doing and documenting daily individualized teaching for every child throughout the year. 3. It presents systems to implement BOTH thematic emergent curriculum and skill-focused curriculum in all learning domains...motor, perceptual, language, memory and problem solving. 4. It also includes samples of lesson plan forms that WORK to make planning better and easier. I guarantee that it will be the most useful book you have ever owned. As I was writing the book, I piloted it in 5 different early ed. programs in several states. Teachers who piloted and used this book wrote these comments: "When I used the planning system in this book, I knew I was covering all skill areas every day, and I was proud of that." "This system taught me the importance of gradually making the skills more challenging by matching my planned activities to the children's changing development." "Mapping out what skills should be taught and when was wonderful, and it helped my parents understand how children learn." "It showed me how to put our webbing ideas into the actual lesson plans." "For the first time, I am individualizing for each child and I can prove it." Enjoy!

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0205174043
• ISBN 13: 9780205174041
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224