Prepare with the Power of Classroom Practice. * Complete Assignments and Activities to apply text content to real classroom situations. * Authentic classroom video shows real teachers and students interacting, and helps prepare you for the classroom. * Explore the Building Teaching Skills and Dispositions exercises to practice and strengthen the skills that are essential to teaching. * Case studies offer real-life perspectives on common issues and challenges faced in the classroom. * Authentic student and teacher classroom artifacts provide you with the actual types of materials encountered every day by teachers. To order this book WITH MyEducationLab, use either ISBN: ISBN-13: 9780131381155 ISBN-10: 0131381156
More applied than other texts on models and approaches,
Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Education: History, Theories, and Approaches in Learning focuses on foundational aspects of early childhood education. The text provides a fresh look at the issues, firsthand accounts of practice, descriptive views into classrooms, and classroom-based examples and strategies that help teachers bridge theory and practice.
- Reorganized Table of Contents to improve flow of topics
- Expanded Chapter 3 on professionalism
- Revised Appendices and new comprehensive portfolio rubric in Appendix E
- More in-depth support for professional portfolio creation in Chapters 1 and 12
- Additional application ideas in Chapters 8 - 11
- Updated NAEYC statements
- New research on Waldorf Education and outcomes in Chapter 11
- Integration of MyEducationLab resources throughout each chapter
- Streamlined summaries for student accessibility