Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Published by Pearson College Div, 2007
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- Title
- Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education
- Author
- Jalongo, Mary Renck
- Publisher
- Pearson College Div
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0131727990
- ISBN 13
- 9780131727991
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
For Introduction to Early Childhood courses and courses in Early Childhood Methods and Early Childhood Curriculum.
Designed for future teachers of children from birth to age 8, this text is organized around the twelve essential roles and responsibilities of effective early childhood educators as delineated by the NAEYC Guidelines for Preparation of Early Childhood Professionals (2000). Its innovative coverage focuses on helping students fulfill these roles in a caring, competent, knowledgeable manner, through case studies, numerous opportunities for reflection, . Written by award-winning, experienced professors with strong philosophies about teaching, Exploring Your Role's voice bolsters students' confidence in their ability as early childhood professionals and encourages a life-long interest in caring for and serving young children, in whatever setting they teach. Key changes include: New Chapter 3 on diversity (addresses equity and fairness); Strengthened programs coverage; more of a focus on standards overall; Teacher Prep integrated media edition; and a colorful, joyful new design.
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Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education
Third Edition
Mary Renck Jalongo & Joan Packer Isenberg
Exploring Your Role offers an integrated and innovative introduction to early childhood education, organized around NAEYC’s twelve essential teaching roles. Its content and pedagogy help students to make connections among teacher roles, theory, research, and practice. Exploring Your Role is an interactive text that encourages students to function as reflective practitioners in response to case study material. Features such as “Did You Know?” “Meet the Teachers,” “Ask the Experts,” and “One Child, Three Perspectives,” lead students in building personal connections with practice as they develop professional knowledge in working with families and educators. To underscore students’ growing understanding of diverse learners, diversity icons alert readers to relevant sections.
Key changes to this edition:
- Margin notes direct students to the Teacher Prep Website to analyze high-quality video clips, artifacts, and other resources (an access code card is included, providing full access to the site)
- A new Chapter 3 on diversity and equity issues, written by Beatrice S. Fennimore
- Each chapter’s learning outcomes are now linked to professional standards, including those from NAEYC, INTASC, and ACEI
- New and updated “Collaborating with Families” feature in each chapter
- Expanded content on ECE program types
- New standards-based lesson and unit plans
- Companion Website for students features practice assessments written in PRAXIS-like format to prepare students for their licensure exams and professional practica
Resources include an onlineInstructor’s Manual and Test Bank, an electronic test management system, WebCT and Blackboard, Power Point slides for instructors and note-taking slides for students, and a Companion Website. To view the website that accompanies this text, please go to http://www.prenhall.com/jalongo.
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