Practical Guide to Early Childhood Curriculum, A, 10th edition

• Future and practicing teachers get a vast array of ideas from which to plan lessons and units geared to the needs of the individual children in their classrooms. The topics and concepts presented are discussed along with approaches to teaching and specific activities and experiences for each concept.
  • Occasional lesson plans within the chapters show students how one teacher might apply the concepts in that chapter. Most lesson plans appear in Appendix A, and recipes are presented in Appendix B.
  • Concepts and Ideas for Teaching boxed sections appear in every chapter, and Student Learning Activities appear at the end of each chapter.
• Readers are keyed to practical, unique, “bright ideas” taken from the authors’ experiences in the classroom.
• Teachers get support in teaching mathematics and reading/language arts, and meeting the Common Core requirements through specific, strong chapters included for teaching these areas.
• Help for teaching all content areas—science, art, music, physical education, nutrition, and social-emotional health—is included throughout the text.
• Comprehension is enhanced through a unified chapter pedagogy, which follows a specific format: learning outcomes; introductory comments, including content information; approach to teaching; chapter summary; student learning activities; and suggested resources.

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• Embedded videos. Students get opportunities to see into real classrooms and see examples of the concepts and ideas in action through the digitally integrated video clips supporting and illustrating key chapter ideas and concepts. Every chapter includes three to six of these digital videos. (See pages 203, 226, and 349 for examples.)
• Check Your Understanding of chapter content. Exercises matched to chapter learning outcomes help readers apply the concepts and ensure that they master the learning outcomes. Exercises and suggested feedback are provided in the Pearson eText. (See pages 211, 236, and 351 for examples.)
• End of Chapter Self-Check. Embedded assessments with feedback help students review new terms and concepts and encourage reflection and discussion on the issues of the chapter. These are presented within the Pearson eText as interactive quizzes. (See pages 218, 236, and 369 for examples.)

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• NEW! Students begin each chapter with knowledge of what the chapter is attempting to accomplish through the learning outcomes or objectives that begin each chapter.
• NEW! Students can learn definitions for the academic terminology (key terms) included in bold in the text through the eText's digital Glossary of terms. Simply click on a boldface term and the definition will pop up from the Pearson eText.
• NEW! Math and science instruction are given more coverage in the text’s reorganization which includes an additional chapter with an overview of science and math, followed by three science chapters and one chapter on math included in Part 4, Science and Math Development. Part 3 is now titled Language and Literacy Development and Part 5 is Aesthetic and Creative Development.
• The concepts are clearly illustrated through numerous NEW photographs taken in authentic settings that tie directly to the content, interspersed throughout the text.
  • NEW! 93 new photos are included.
• Additional changes to the content of the text include:
  • Part One includes four chapters and provides an introduction and framework for the text.
  • Part Two presents skills and concepts related to understanding and dealing with the self and others. 
  • Part Three includes six chapters that directly relate to literacy development in the early childhood years. 
  • Part Four emphasizes that young children should not only be taught to learn, memorize and take in facts, but they must also learn to think deeply—to classify, explain, investigate, question, observe, sort, wonder, synthesize, communicate, analyze, compare, hypothesize, and predict.
  • Part Five includes a chapter on music and movement (Chapter 14) and creativity, art, and dramatic activities (Chapter 15).