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Early Childhood Field Experience: Learning to Teach Well, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (September 12, 2012) © 2013

  • Kathryn W. Browne Skyline College
  • Ann M Gordon National Association of Episcopal Schools

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·        NEW Prepare yourself to work with and educate the youngest children. Infant/Toddler coverage is now featured throughout the text, preparing student teachers who work with young children, 0-3 years of age. The unique issues and the programs applicable for this age group are addressed and articulated more in this revision. Headings and sections about infants, toddlers, and twos have been added in Chapters 3, 5, 6, and 8.

·        NEW Learn how to adapt instruction to students with exceptional needs and atypical development, observed in 10-15% of today’s student population. This edition alerts student teachers to the types of behaviors they will encounter, teaching strategies to readily use in the classroom, and program implications. Special Needs sections have been added in Chapters 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9.

·        NEW Prepare yourself to discuss and face any ethical dilemma that may arise in your teaching experience. This edition features Ethical Dilemmas embedded in chapter content. These special features will enable student teachers to better understand the importance of developing and using both a professional code of ethics and high personal behavior standards when working with children, family, and staff. Every chapter now includes an ethical dilemma about a topic relevant to chapter content, appearing in the margins.

·        NEW Learn how to better implement and develop curriculum for teaching young children. The chapter on curriculum has been thoroughly updated and expanded, taking into consideration the special challenges novice teachers face when trying to master these skills.

·        NEW Focused reading guides help prepare student teachers to tackle new concepts and applications. Student Learning Outcomes have been added at the beginning of each chapter to aid reader focus, preparing them to take on the content and applications to be addressed in each chapter. These new outcomes will not only situate and sort new concepts before reading begins, but will be incorporated into the Test Bank and Instructor’s Manual for teaching ideas as well.

·        NEW Easily identify your program type and learn about the wide-range of programs that serve young children in the field of early childhood education. A revamped description of the various ECE Programs, previously described in a workbook-like structure in the first edition, is now described in detail in Chapter 1 of this new edition.

·        NEW Instructor support material includes a newly added Online Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank, Chapter Outline from which to lecture, and Suggestions for teaching the content for each chapter is now offered to adopters of the text.

·        NEW Prepare yourself to work with and educate the youngest children. Infant/Toddler coverage is now featured throughout the text, preparing student teachers who work with young children, 0-3 years of age. The unique issues and the programs applicable for this age group are addressed and articulated more in this revision. Headings and sections about infants, toddlers, and twos have been added in Chapters 3, 5, 6, and 8.

·        NEW Learn how to adapt instruction to students with exceptional needs and atypical development, observed in 10-15% of today’s student population. This edition alerts student teachers to the types of behaviors they will encounter, teaching strategies to readily use in the classroom, and program implications. Special Needs sections have been added in Chapters 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9.

·        NEW Prepare yourself to discuss and face any ethical dilemma that may arise in your teaching experience. This edition features Ethical Dilemmas embedded in chapter content. These special features will enable student teachers to better understand the importance of developing and using both a professional code of ethics and high personal behavior standards when working with children, family, and staff. Every chapter now includes an ethical dilemma about a topic relevant to chapter content, appearing in the margins.

·        NEW Learn how to better implement and develop curriculum for teaching young children. The chapter on curriculum has been thoroughly updated and expanded, taking into consideration the special challenges novice teachers face when trying to master these skills.

·        NEW Focused reading guides help prepare student teachers to tackle new concepts and applications. Student Learning Outcomes have been added at the beginning of each chapter to aid reader focus, preparing them to take on the content and applications to be addressed in each chapter. These new outcomes will not only situate and sort new concepts before reading begins, but will be incorporated into the Test Bank and Instructor’s Manual for teaching ideas as well.

·        NEW Easily identify your program type and learn about the wide-range of programs that serve young children in the field of early childhood education. A revamped description of the various ECE Programs, previously described in a workbook-like structure in the first edition, is now described in detail in Chapter 1 of this new edition.

·        NEW Instructor support material includes a newly added Online Instructor’s Manual, Test Bank, Chapter Outline from which to lecture, and Suggestions for teaching the content for each chapter is now offered to adopters of the text.

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Chapter 2: Becoming a Professional Teacher

Chapter 3: Understanding and Guiding Behavior

Chapter 4: Observing and Assessing Children

Chapter 5: Environments and Schedules

Chapter 6: Curriculum

Chapter 7: Team Teaching

Chapter 8: Collaborating with Families

Chapter 9: The Dynamics of Diversity

Kathryn Williams Browne is an Early Childhood Specialist who has been working in the early care and education field for more than 30 years. She graduated with honors from Stanford University earning a BA in Psychology/Child Development, and later received an MA degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Michigan. Her teaching experiences include: preschool, parent-cooperative, full-day childcare, kindergarten, first grade, bilingual nursery school, and 15 years at Stanford’s Bing Nursery School. At the college-level, she has taught a wide-range of Early Childhood Education and Psychology courses at Stanford University, De Anza and Canada Colleges, and is currently a tenured professor leading the Early Childhood Education Department at Skyline College in San Bruno, CA.

Together with Ann Gordon, she has co-authored four additional textbooks: Beginnings and Beyond: Foundations in ECE, Eighth Edition (Cengage) and Early Childhood Learning Experience: Learning to Teach Well, 2e (Pearson), and Beginning Essentials, Second Edition (Wadsworth, 2011) and Guiding Young children in a Diverse Society (Allyn & Bacon).

Wearing many hats, Browne is currently involved in a myriad of Early Childhood Education related roles. Currently, she is the Coordinator of the Early Childhood Education Department at Skyline College and the San Mateo Region ECE Mentor Program; serves as the State Secretary of the California Community College Early Childhood Education Faculty Association (CCCECE); and is on the Steering Committee of CA Department of Education’s Competencies Integration Project (CIP).

Ann Miles Gordon has been an early childhood professional for more than 40 years, teaching young children, parents, and college students. She has taught in laboratory schools, church-related centers, private and public preschool and kindergarten  programs. She taught at the Bing Nursery School, the laboratory school for Stanford University’s Department of Psychology where she was a head teacher and lecturer in the Psychology Department. Gordon also served as an adjunct faculty member at several community colleges, teaching the full gamut of early childhood courses. For 14 years, she was the Executive Director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools, where more than 1,100 early childhood programs were a part of her network. Semi-retired, Gordon is a hands-on grandmother of two.

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