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Early Childhood Curriculum: Developmental Bases for Learning and Teaching - 5th Edition

Name: Early Childhood Curriculum: Developmental Bases for Learning and Teaching - 5th Edition
Author: Wortham, Sue C.
ISBN: 9780137152339

by Wortham, Sue C.

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Overview

With its chronological approach from infancy through Grade 3, this text directly ties curriculum to the understanding of child development.

Key changes to this edition include

o the addition of instructional strategies for meeting standards

o information on how teachers can address increased demands for accountability and maintain a quality program

o expanded content on integrating the curriculum

o a focus on balanced literacy

o new discussions on factors that put children at risk

Synopsis

With a solid theoretical focus and child-centered approach, Early Childhood Curriculum stresses the importance of students understanding the foundations of their field before they develop and use quality teaching and instruction programs. The text strikes a balance between the most current research and trends with classic theories to create a working basis for developing curriculum for children from 0-8 years old.
This specific and reflective guide to implementing quality teaching programs in a chronological manner from infancy to grade three takes a largely constructivist approach that includes skills instruction and emergent literacy in a balanced reading program. The teacher guides, instructs, and scaffolds, and the child encounters, experiences, and accomplishes goals in beginning literacy.
The new sixth edition of the text includes thematic lesson plans that are updated to integrate state standards as well as current information on new brain research and its implications for infant-toddler programs.