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Your Early Childhood Practicum and Student Teaching Experience: Guidelines for Success, 3rd edition

Published by Pearson (September 10, 2013) © 2014

  • Carroll Tyminski

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  • Be influenced by practical advice from recent student teachers. Each chapter begins with Voices of Reality quotes from recent early childhood student teachers offering practical advice on such topics as developmentally appropriate practices and teacher competencies. These anecdotal comments, quotes, and eclectic wisdom of early childhood student teachers and teacher educators will prove a most valuable teaching and learning tools.

  • Be effective by following key guidelines. Prominent, brief boxes highlight important teaching guidelines throughout the book to help students succeed.

  • Be exposed to a broad-range of childhood experiences in order to better prepare you to work with a large population of different ages and levels. Special care has been taken to include experiences from birth through age 8.

  • Learn the importance of professionalism and ethics. The text maintains a special emphasis on the teacher as a professional, as well as the importance of ethics involved in the job.

  • Gain a deeper level of understanding on core concepts and applying these principles in the classroom. Real-life examples given in each chapter as an effective way to help students understand how to apply the suggestions given.

  • Be encouraged to reflect and apply the information in every chapter. Activities are suggested at the end of each chapter to encourage student reflection and application of the information.

  • Improve communication skills with both children and adults. Communication is emphasized as an important skill for teachers with an overview of strategies and key questions to improve communication with all types of people inside and outside of the classroom.
  • New Learning Outcomes, placed at the beginning of each chapter, help focus readers’ attention on key knowledge and skills they should be developing as early childhood educators.
  • This edition features a focus on examining cultural assumptions and how personal experiences might influence interactions with children and adults. Important issues related to family diversity are included, and there are questions for reflection in order to help students develop cultural competency.
  • This edition gives a more robust treatment to diverse families. The text now includes more content on diverse family structures and family systems, such as grandparent-headed families; families with one or more lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transsexual (LGBT) parents; military families; single-parent families; families experiencing poverty; and homeless families.
  • Greater focus on professional behavior, appropriate professional language, teacher dispositions, and foundational competencies for student teachers
  • Lesson planning with sample formats
  • More on inclusion and working with children who have special needs
  • The most current information on national and state standards, the reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, and assessment
  • Chapter Four includes new content about Positive Behavior Support (PBS), Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS), Functional Behavior Analysis (FBA), and Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP). Readers will also benefit from the enhanced information on technology, Universal Design for Learning, and updated websites found throughout the text.
  • Discussions about developing an electronic teaching portfolio, creating an interview portfolio and interview brochure

Chapter 1 Preparing to Begin Student Teaching

Chapter 2 Becoming a Professional

Chapter 3 Establishing Effective Professional Relationships

Chapter 4 Guiding Young Children in the Classroom

Chapter 5 Classroom Management: Environments and Routines

Chapter 6 Observations and Evaluations of Student Teaching

Chapter 7 Assessment of Young Children

Chapter 8 Supportive Instruction

Chapter 9 Understanding Diverse Communities and Interacting with Children's Families

Chapter 10 Completion of Student Teaching: Looking Ahead

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