Week by Week - Softcover

NILSEN

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0827376464 ISBN 13: 9780827376465

Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning, 1997

Synopsis

This well-organized book provides students with a systematic plan for week-by-week documentation of each child's development in an early childhood setting. It presents instruction in the most common recording techniques as well as a review of basic child development principles. By following the week-by-week plan, the observer is able to collect periodic and useful information from a variety of sources. Diagrams, thinking exercises, and case-studies help the content meet the individual learning styles of the readers and the weekly assignments provide manageable collection of data to form a portfolio illustrating the child's development in all areas. This is useful for the child's feeling of competence, the parent's ability to see progress, and the teacher's developmental planning.

About this title

From the Author

Manageable observation techniques for portfolio building
If you are the teacher or caregiver of toddlers through early elementary age children, and you want to build meaningful portfolios of children's develpment throughout the year, this book is for you. It gives you week by week assignments and a whole year's plan to oberve EVERY child, in EVERY developmental area, several times or the course of the year, using DIFFERENT methods of recording to get the most objective, usable information. You're too busy? This book will help you manage your time with the children and the information you gather. It also is an overview of child devlopment because you need to know what you are looking for, as well as curriculum ideas, classrom practices and tips on communicating with parents. Personal stories and essays on issues are included too. Forms are performated for reproduction. This book can also be used as a college textbook for observation methods. Comments welcome: Contact me by email NILSEN_B@sunybroome.edu

Edition details

• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0827376464
• ISBN 13: 9780827376465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 412