Developing and Documenting the Curriculum
Author: David G. Armstrong
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13:
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A Guide to Documenting Learning
Author: Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2018-01-06
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 1506385559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new approach to contemporary documentation and learning What is learning? How do we look for, capture, reflect on, and share learning to foster meaningful and active engagement? This vital resource helps educators answer these questions. A Guide to Documenting Learning facilitates student-driven learning and helps teachers reflect on their own learning and classroom practice. This unique how-to book Explains the purposes and different types of documentation Teaches different “LearningFlow” systems to help educators integrate documentation throughout the curriculum Provides authentic examples of documentation in real classrooms Is accompanied by a robust companion website where readers can find even more documentation examples and video tutorials
Week by Week
Author: Barbara Ann Nilsen
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Published: 2009-01-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781439043769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeek by Week: Plans for Documenting Children's Development, 4e is a text that not only presents the technical aspects of many various methods of documentation, it also reviews domains of development and the efficiency of each method to capture important information. Early childhood teachers should be keeping written records for every child in their group, documenting events, achievements, and concerns. There are many methods or types of documentation to use. The dilemma of both student teachers and experienced teachers is how to manage detailed, meaningful documentation while attending to all the functions that a teacher needs to perform to keep children safe and actively involved in learning. This text is an all-purpose guide for students and practitioners to gather meaningful developmental information. The new online companion contains forms and additional resources that will assist in using the child assessments to guide curriculum planning. Also added to this new edition are 'It Happened To Me' vignettes that illustrate key points and are both entertaining as well as illustrative of the experiences of real teachers. It also includes an expanded discussion of the implications of No Child Left Behind and authentic assessment by portfolio documentation. The text can be useful for courses in observation methods, child development, curriculum planning and practicum. This text is a must-have that provides a year's plan for gathering developmental data on every child; something every classroom teacher needs.
Documenting Children's Meaning
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Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9781615284276
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Author: Judy Harris Helm
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 0807777145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCompletely updated, this popular guide provides teachers with a proven method for documenting (collecting, analyzing, and displaying) young children’s work. Written by teachers for teachers, it also shows principals, curriculum coordinators, and directors of early intervention programs how to develop children’s portfolios to share with parents or to use for assessment and other accountability purposes. “This lively, informative book poses a remarkable challenge to teachers—to grow themselves while growing young children. Being creatively accountable is hard work and the stories told here describe both the work, how it’s done, and its joyful rewards for teachers and children.” —Elizabeth Jones, Pacific Oaks College “This book provides a set of windows on children’s lives and how teachers can enter into those lives and enrich them through high-quality teaching. The authors have created an inspiring volume, a challenging set of ideas, and an invaluable resource for early childhood educators.” —Samuel J. Meisels, University of Michigan “[A] thoughtful, up-to-date guide to assessing and documenting children’s work. . . . The authors give clear, practical advice on how to collect, analyze, and display children’s work in meaningful ways.” —Scholastic Early Childhood Today (on first edition) “Many teachers find it frustrating to hear the rich and exciting learning experiences they provide described as ‘nothing.’ Windows on Learning skillfully addresses the challenge faced by early childhood educators wishing to share classroom experiences with parents, administrators, and peers. The authors offer a timely and fresh approach to documenting children’s learning and work.” —Childhood Education (on first edition)
Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood
Author: Susan Stacey
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2023-06-13
Total Pages: 121
ISBN-13: 1605548049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe what, the why, and the how of pedagogical documentation What does your classroom say about the children’s ideas, inquiries, learning, and play? An inspiring step-by-step guide to documenting children's ideas, questions, play, and learning in a way that enhances teachers' thinking and understanding at the same time, Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood will help you answer those questions and create documentation that tells the story of children’s exploration. This practical guide provides rich ideas, useful references, beautiful visuals, and the framework to get you started, as well as ideas for developing the documentation habit, design tips, and tools for communicating the curriculum and children’s experiences to families and others. Each chapter concludes with an invitation to explore, which offers you a starting point if you are new to pedagogical documentation, or a pathway to deeper reflection if you are already practicing it. The book has been revised and expanded for the second edition, including material on: Digital documentation. Documentation of infants and non-verbal children. Using documentation as a “thread” to follow the unfolding inquiries of children, including the use of sketch notebooks. Including the teacher’s voice, as well as the children’s, and the role of teacher’s curiosity. Bringing forward new thinking from the educators in Reggio Emilia. Leveraging pedagogical narration as a form of teacher-growth.
Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood
Author: Susan Stacey
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2015-05-11
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1605543926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn inspiring step-by-step guide to documenting children's ideas, questions, and learning in a way that enhances teacher's thinking and understanding
From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking
Author: Jane Tingle Broderick
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781938113635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn 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.
Inquiry-Based Early Learning Environments
Author: Susan Stacey
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1605545821
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to inquire? Grownups would say it means to question, to search for information, or to finding out about a topic of interest. For children in an early childhood classroom, the definition is no different. From the time of their birth, children want to know how the world works and actively seek out information. How educators respond to their quest is what this book is all about. Inquiry-Based Early Learning Environment takes an in-depth look at children’s inquiry. What does inquiry look like in early childhood settings? How does the environment affect children’s inquiries and teachers’ thought processes? Inquiry-Based Early Learning Environment examines inquiry in all its facets, including environments that support relationships, that create a culture of risk-taking in our thinking, that support teachers as well as children, that include families, that use documentation as a way of thinking about our work, and of course, the physical environment and all the objects and spaces within it. Throughout, stories about environments and approaches to inquiry from around the world are included as examples.
Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth Through Age 8, Fourth Edition (Fully Revised and Updated)
Author: Naeyc
Publisher:
Published: 2021-08
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781938113956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe long-awaited new edition of NAEYC's book Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs is here, fully revised and updated! Since the first edition in 1987, it has been an essential resource for the early childhood education field. Early childhood educators have a professional responsibility to plan and implement intentional, developmentally appropriate learning experiences that promote the social and emotional development, physical development and health, cognitive development, and general learning competencies of each child served. But what is developmentally appropriate practice (DAP)? DAP is a framework designed to promote young children's optimal learning and development through a strengths-based approach to joyful, engaged learning. As educators make decisions to support each child's learning and development, they consider what they know about (1) commonality in children's development and learning, (2) each child as an individual (within the context of their family and community), and (3) everything discernible about the social and cultural contexts for each child, each educator, and the program as a whole. This latest edition of the book is fully revised to underscore the critical role social and cultural contexts play in child development and learning, including new research about implicit bias and teachers' own context and consideration of advances in neuroscience. Educators implement developmentally appropriate practice by recognizing the many assets all young children bring to the early learning program as individuals and as members of families and communities. They also develop an awareness of their own context. Building on each child's strengths, educators design and implement learning settings to help each child achieve their full potential across all domains of development and across all content areas.
