Connecting Emergent Curriculum and Standards in the Early Childhood Classroom

Connecting Emergent Curriculum and Standards in the Early Childhood Classroom

Author: Sydney Schwartz

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0807771414

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The most pressing challenge in early childhood education today is to find a way to meet the standards within a developmentally appropriate approach. In this book, two active early childhood educators provide teachers with resources to bring content alive and document it in every-day, action-based pre–K and Kindergarten classrooms. The book includes lists of key content ideas—coordinated with learning standards in science, mathematics, social studies, and the communication arts—to guide teacher observations of, and interactions with, young children. Chapters focus on ways to extend children’s emerging use of content in the block, manipulative, sand and water, drama, expressive arts, and literacy centers, as well as link to the development of themes. Book features include: Lists of key ideas in the content areas. Examples of conversations that nurture children’s emerging content understandings. Vignettes from the field illustrating teachers’ experiences of embedding content into center activities, along with photographs. Sample forms for documenting children’s learning as they meet the standards in a variety of contexts. Sydney L. Schwartzis a Professor Emerita of Queens College of the City University of New York.Sherry M. Copelandis an experienced early childhood teacher, teacher trainer, advocate, and director of early childhood programs.


Making Early Learning Standards Come Alive

Making Early Learning Standards Come Alive

Author: Gaye Gronlund

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2006-08

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780132340366

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Supplementary text for the Curriculum in Early Childhood Education course in Early Childhood Education and Child and Family Studies departments. This book on state early learning standards for young children is a useful resource in helping preservice and practicing teachers learn how to connect their lesson/activity planning to many states' new early learning standards. Key chapters include presenting standards in the following areas: Communication and Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Social/Emotional Development, Physical Development and Health, and Creative Arts. Then, how children might show progress toward these standards is divided into three levels of progress, and curriculum suggestions are provided for each progress level.


Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive

Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive

Author: Gaye Gronlund

Publisher: Redleaf Press

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1605543691

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Every state has developed some form of early learning standards. Find out how you can apply and use them in ways that are most beneficial to children. Updated to reflect the continuing evolution of early learning standards, this book offers help and hints, support and clarification, and clear explanations of how you can make early learning standards come alive in your early childhood classroom or program. You’ll find tools to communicate exactly how you are addressing children’s learning as you plan for cognitive and foundational skill development, as well as suggestions to assess children’s progress. Easy-to-read charts present information about each major content area or area of development and descriptions of what those standards might look like in classrooms. The charts also suggest activities and interactions to support a child as he or she makes the first attempts toward the standard, progresses toward it, and finally accomplishes the standard. New to this edition: A chapter focusing on Approaches to Learning standards The most recent information on early learning standards from across the country References to the Common Core State Standards and their relationship to early learning standards Gaye Gronlund has consulted for national organizations, state agencies, school districts, and early childhood programs for more than twenty years. She helped two states write their early learning standards. Gronlund is well known for her many books and keynote presentations.


From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking

From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking

Author: Jane Tingle Broderick

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-30

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781938113635

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Learn how to connect your curriculum planning to children's interests and thinking. With this book, educators will discover a systematic way for using documentation to design curriculum that emerges from children's inquiries, what they wonder, and what they want to understand. Get strategies for designing a classroom environment at the start of the year to facilitate emergent inquiry curriculum. Each chapter guides teachers to document and reflect on their thinking through each of the five phases of a cycle of inquiry process, including observing, interpreting the meaning of the play they see, and developing questions to engage children.


The Unscripted Classroom

The Unscripted Classroom

Author: Susan Stacey

Publisher: Redleaf Press

Published: 2011-05-17

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1605541788

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Inspires early childhood educators to use innovative practices through stories from real teachers who use emergent curriculum in their classrooms.


How to Work with Standards in the Early Childhood Classroom

How to Work with Standards in the Early Childhood Classroom

Author: Carol Seefeldt

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 9780807745885

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More and more teachers of young children are being asked to develop their curriculum according to standards. This essential resource will guide educators as they grapple with a plethora of issues, questions, and practices surrounding the use of standards in the early childhood classroom.


Implementing a Standards-Based Curriculum in the Early Childhood Classroom

Implementing a Standards-Based Curriculum in the Early Childhood Classroom

Author: Lora Bailey

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-05-25

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1315296160

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Chapter 5: Individualized Language Interventions within a Collaborative School/Family Partnership -- Benefits of Early Intervention -- Research-Based Early Language Interventions -- Research to Practice -- Summary -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Teachers' Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Early Math: Setting the Stage for Implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics -- A Model of Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Early Mathematics -- Early Childhood Teachers' PCK in Early Mathematics -- Developing Teachers' PCK in Early Math for CCSSM Implementation -- References -- Appendix -- Index.