Waubonsee Community College

Preschool education in today's world, teaching children with diverse backgrounds and abilities, by M. Susan Burns, Richard T. Johnson, and Mona M Assaf with invited contributors

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Preschool education in today's world

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by M. Susan Burns, Richard T. Johnson, and Mona M Assaf with invited contributors

teaching children with diverse backgrounds and abilities

With this expertly organized collection of essential information on early childhood education, tomorrow's preschool teachers will enter the classroom prepared and motivated to give all children a great start in school

1. Who provides early childhood education and care? -- Why become an early childhood teacher? -- Professional standards for early childhood educators -- Multidimensional development and learning -- Professionalism -- 2. Who are the children and their families? -- Family, neighborhood, and community characteristics -- Family culture -- Home language -- Family type and structure -- Social organization of a family -- Gay and lesbian parents -- Siblings -- Teenage parents -- Income level -- Child abuse and neglect -- Children with disabilities -- Physical and health disabilities -- Cerebral palsy -- Spina bifida-- Intellectual disabilities -- Down syndrome -- autism spectrum disorders -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- Emotional and behavioral disorders -- Learning disabilities -- Speech and language impairments -- Multiple disabilities -- 3. How has early childhood education been defined over the years? -- Early childhood before the 19th century -- Early childhood education in the 19th century -- Early childhood education in the first half of the 20th century -- Early childhood education in the second half of the 20th century -- 4. Early childhood practice today / with Myra Rogers -- Setting up the environment -- Manipulative and fine motor activities (math) -- Writing center (literacy) -- Book center (literacy) -- Science center -- Water and sand center -- Art center -- Block center -- Sociodramatic play center -- Woodworking center -- Centers for special projects -- Outdoor play -- Environment for naps -- Daily schedule -- The core of early childhood education today -- Play -- Interactions -- Building relationships with families -- 5. Approaches to learning -- Approaches to learning -- Social learning theory -- Information processing theory -- Social constructivist theory -- Theory of mind -- Receptive processes -- Initiative -- Curiosity -- Attention -- Impulse control -- Elaborative processes -- Memory -- Organization -- Creativity -- Persistence, frustration, tolerance, and private speech -- Expressive processes -- Representation -- Familiarity with clarification questions -- Creative arts -- Social studies -- Numeracy -- Science -- Literacy -- Interaction and play -- Adapting curriculum and monitoring progress -- 6. Social and emotional development -- Ecological theory -- Psychosocial theory -- Critical theory and early education -- Features of social and emotional development -- Temperament and personality -- Attachment -- Identity -- Resiliency and protective factors -- Supporting children's effective and diverse social and emotional development -- Literacy -- Numeracy -- Science -- Social studies -- Creative arts -- Interaction and play -- 7. Cognitive development and learning -- Learning objectives -- Constructivist theory -- Narrative construction of reality theory -- Dynamic skills perspective -- Brain development -- Features of cognitive development and learning -- Sets -- Geometry and spatial sense -- Numbers -- Vocabulary -- Patterns and measurement -- 8. Language development / with Robert A. Stechuk -- Learning objectives -- Ecological theory -- Social constructivist theory -- Verbal behavior theory -- Features of language development -- Communication -- Shared language systems -- Individual differences in language development -- Language subsystems -- Metalinguistics -- Supporting children's effective and diverse language development -- Creative arts -- Social studies -- Numeracy -- Science -- Literacy -- Interaction and play -- 9. Physical development / with Myra Rogers -- Learning objectives -- Ecological theory -- Brain development -- Gross motor development -- Fine motor development -- Physical development, nutrition, and physical fitness -- Supporting children's effective and diverse motor and physical development -- Creative arts -- Social studies -- Numeracy -- Science -- Literacy -- Interaction and play -- 10. Learning in early childhood is continuous -- International perspectives -- Advocacy