Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Education:History, Theories and Approaches to Learning - Softcover

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