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Author: Deb Curtis
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781605541488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe latest resource from esteemed early childhood authors Margie Carter and Deb Curtis, and introducing Wendy Cividanes and Debbie Lebo.
Author: Etienne Wenger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-09-28
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1107268370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over time. To give a social account of learning, the theory explores in a systematic way the intersection of issues of community, social practice, meaning, and identity. The result is a broad framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. This ambitious but thoroughly accessible framework has relevance for the practitioner as well as the theoretician, presented with all the breadth, depth, and rigor necessary to address such a complex and yet profoundly human topic.
Author: Lynn Uyen Tran
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-05-30
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1000372367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflecting on Practice for STEM Educators is a guidebook to lead a professional learning program for educators working in STEM learning environments. Making research on the science of human learning accessible to educational professionals around the world, this book shows educators how to relate this research to their own practice. Educators’ collective work broadens the scope of an organization’s reach, and through this effort, the organization grows its social capital in its local community and beyond. This book offers opportunities to engage in processes that lead toward organizational learning by attending to the professional growth of the educators. Tran and Halversen show how learning together can shape the language and meanings by which educators do and talk about their work to support visitors’ experiences. The book provides guidance on how teams of educators can build community as they engage in reflective practice. Reflecting on Practice for STEM Educators will be essential reading for leaders of any organization that aims to educate and engage the public in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It will be particularly useful to educators who work in museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, youth organizations, after-school programs, and nature, science, and conservation centres.
Author: Wendy Lee
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 041561712X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnderstanding the Te Whriki Approach is a much-needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Te Whriki approach, introducing the reader to an innovative bicultural curriculum developed for early childhood services in New Zealand. It will enable the reader to analyse the essential elements of this approach to early childhood and its relationship to quality early years practice. Providing students and practitioners with the relevant information about a key pedagogical influence on high quality early years practice in the United Kingdom, the book explores all areas of the curriculum, emphasising: strong curriculum connections to families and the wider community; a view of teaching and learning that focuses on responsive and reciprocal relationships with people, places and things; a view of curriculum content as cross-disciplinary and multi-modal; the aspirations for children to grow up as competent and confident learners and communicators, healthy in mind, body, and spirit, secure in their sense of belonging and in the knowledge that they make a valued contribution to society; a bicultural framework in which indigenous voices have a central place. Written to support the work of all those in the field of early years education and childcare, this is a vital text for students, early years and childcare practitioners, teachers, early years professionals, children's centre professionals, lecturers, advisory teachers, head teachers and setting managers.
Author: Michelle Reale
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2017-10-03
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0838915299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Deb Curtis
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1929610971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides early childhood teachers a framework for collaborating with children to create a dynamic, emergent curriculum.
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher:
Published: 2017-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780942702644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of teaching and learning stories to inspire an everyday practice of reflection, observation, and joyful presence with children.
Author: Donicka Budd
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Published: 2020-01-28
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1773381393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique manual to the discipline, Reflective Practice in Child and Youth Care addresses the need for distinct models of reflective practice across all Child and Youth Care (CYC) sectors. This seminal work contextualizes the history of reflective practice and provides readers with the necessary tools to develop their own approach to reflective practice. Special topics and key concepts include reflective practice theory, the mindfulness-reflection connection, and transformative learning techniques. Aligned with the CYC Code of Ethics and the CYC Competencies of Professionalism, this book promotes self-awareness and critical self-reflection through case studies, end-of chapter discussion questions, reflective writing templates, and self-assessment exercises. Fostering reflective methods and self-care strategies that can be used in practicums and professional settings, this unique workbook is an essential resource for students at any stage of a college or university program in child and youth care. FEATURES: - Connects to concepts that are covered across child and youth care program courses, strengthening student comprehension - Provides exercises that range in content and depth to ensure student engagement throughout the completion of the textbook
Author: Mike Reed
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2009-11-25
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 184860162X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title covers issues such as: play in the early years foundation stage (EYFS) in England, safeguarding children, the healthy child and many more. It encourages students and practitioners to consider their own practice and to examine those in a wide range of early years settings.
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 2019-08-13
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 160554695X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTeachers often see repetitive behaviors in toddler and preschool classrooms, such as building and knocking down block towers or dumping out toys. When children do these actions over and over it can be irritating to teachers and parents, but viewing these actions through the lens of schema theory, developed by Jean Piaget, can help understand what’s really going on in children’s brains when they display these repetitive behaviors. Children’s Lively Minds is filled with stories about real children exploring schema, followed by reflection and questions about what children might be learning. Schema theory in your work with young children whether you know it or not. Understanding it, putting intention behind it, can help families and teachers ease frustration with young children’s repetitive behavior and allow adults to better support brain development.
