Reflecting Children's Lives

Reflecting Children's Lives
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Learn how to make theme plans, establish times for observation and play, set up schedules, materials, space, and more

Reflecting Children's Lives

Reflecting Children's Lives
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2011-03-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605540390

Consider new possibilities in documentation, observing, and activities when planning child-centered curriculum with this updated handbook.

Reflecting in Communities of Practice

Reflecting in Communities of Practice
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781605541488

The latest resource from esteemed early childhood authors Margie Carter and Deb Curtis, and introducing Wendy Cividanes and Debbie Lebo.

Learning from the Children

Learning from the Children
Author: Cindylee Villareale
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 126
Release: 2009-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 193365371X

Gathering of heartening, true stories that facilitate individual growth and inspire teachers.

Learning Together with Young Children

Learning Together with Young Children
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1929610971

Provides early childhood teachers a framework for collaborating with children to create a dynamic, emergent curriculum.

Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves

Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves
Author: Louise Derman-Sparks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2020-04-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781938113574

Anti-bias education begins with you! Become a skilled anti-bias teacher with this practical guidance to confronting and eliminating barriers.

From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking

From Children's Interests to Children's Thinking
Author: Jane Tingle Broderick
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781938113635

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.

Individualized Child-Focused Curriculum

Individualized Child-Focused Curriculum
Author: Gaye Gronlund
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2016-05-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605544507

Learn to integrate individualized curriculum into daily practice with this step-by-step guide. Using Developmental Studies, a new tool created and successfully field-tested by the author, implement a truly child-focused and individualizing curriculum, meeting each child where she or he is and ultimately making teaching easier and more rewarding. These user-friendly materials will help teachers reconnect and reengage with each student outside of all the standards that are required. Gaye Gronlund devotes her time to helping teachers, administrators, and policy makers implement best approaches to teaching and assessing young children. Clients have included the NAEYC, NIEER, the State of New Mexico Office of Child Development and Pre-K Program, the Illinois State Board of Education, and more.

I Choose To Try Again

I Choose To Try Again
Author: Elizabeth Estrada
Publisher:
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781637312094

In this rhyming story, Kiara learns how to keep going even when things get too hard. Through colorful illustrations and rhythmic rhymes, Kiara reflects on her mistakes and realizes that mistakes help her grow. Instead of avoiding them, she learns from them so she can improve. Do you want your child to learn about perseverance and diligence? Your child will learn how easy it is to get back up after failing. "I Choose to Try Again" is a story with social emotional learning (SEL) in mind. It has been praised by teachers and therapists worldwide. This story told from Kiara's point of view will help open your child's mind to what it feels like to fail, and then try again. Kiara will teach your child how to be mentally strong. With Kiara in real life examples, your child will learn to develop their understanding of their own emotions. Throughout the story, Kiara will show you what perseverance looks like. Teacher and Therapist Toolbox: I Choose is an empowering series curated to empower young children to become aware of big emotions. A new book series developed in tandem with teachers and therapists to help children cope with a range of emotions and teach them that they indeed hold the power to choose their actions and reactions. Try not to say 'never.'. That brainwashes you to fail. It means that you won't have the chance To raise the victory sail. "I Choose to Try Again" was developed alongside counselors and parents to be used as a resource in a social emotional curriculum.

Designs for Living and Learning, Second Edition

Designs for Living and Learning, Second Edition
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2014-12-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605543721

The best-selling source of inspiration for early childhood professionals designing learning environments; updated with all new photographs and fresh content