Early Childhood Field Experience: Learning to Teach Well - Softcover

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Kathryn Williams Browne is an Early Childhood Specialist who has been working in the early care and education field for more than 30 years. She graduated with honors from Stanford University earning a BA in Psychology/Child Development, and later received an MA degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Michigan. Her teaching experiences include: preschool, parent-cooperative, full-day childcare, kindergarten, first grade, bilingual nursery school, and 15 years at Stanford’s Bing Nursery School. At the college-level, she has taught a wide-range of Early Childhood Education and Psychology courses at Stanford University, De Anza and Canada Colleges, and is currently a tenured professor leading the Early Childhood Education Department at Skyline College in San Bruno, CA.

Together with Ann Gordon, she has co-authored four additional textbooks: Beginnings and Beyond: Foundations in ECE, Eighth Edition (Cengage) and Early Childhood Learning Experience: Learning to Teach Well, 2e (Pearson), and Beginning Essentials, Second Edition (Wadsworth, 2011) and Guiding Young children in a Diverse Society (Allyn & Bacon).

Wearing many hats, Browne is currently involved in a myriad of Early Childhood Education related roles. Currently, she is the Coordinator of the Early Childhood Education Department at Skyline College and the San Mateo Region ECE Mentor Program; serves as the State Secretary of the California Community College Early Childhood Education Faculty Association (CCCECE); and is on the Steering Committee of CA Department of Education’s Competencies Integration Project (CIP).

Ann Miles Gordon has been an early childhood professional for more than 40 years, teaching young children, parents, and college students. She has taught in laboratory schools, church-related centers, private and public preschool and kindergarten  programs. She taught at the Bing Nursery School, the laboratory school for Stanford University’s Department of Psychology where she was a head teacher and lecturer in the Psychology Department. Gordon also served as an adjunct faculty member at several community colleges, teaching the full gamut of early childhood courses. For 14 years, she was the Executive Director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools, where more than 1,100 early childhood programs were a part of her network. Semi-retired, Gordon is a hands-on grandmother of two.

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Real World Experience for Student Teachers

This thorough revision is an accessible, interactive guidebook to the early childhood practicum, student teaching, or related fieldwork.  Supporting students by easing the move from “instructed” to “instructor,” this lively constructed text shares real-life situations and illustrates teaching practices to help connect knowledge and theory with classroom experiences.  Teacher preparation is given full attention as the text addresses professionalism and ethics, curriculum, observation and assessment, and diversity. Additional material on infant-toddler care, a growing trend in the field, is adequately covered throughout the text. Critical thinking and response is promoted as the text invites student teachers to self-reflect as they work through the guide, follow numerous in-text prompts and complete the workbook-like final chapter with ample journaling opportunities. Useful planning and recording templates add to the practicality of this text―the best practical guide on the market for preparing and supporting student teachers as they enter the real world of educating young children.