Teaching Young Children, Preschool-K: A Guide to Planning Your Curriculum, Teaching Through Learning Centers, and Just About Everything Else / Edition 2

by Dianne Miller Nielsen

Overview

This guide offers preschool and kindergarten teachers practical strategies for delivering developmentally appropriate curriculum, facilitating and scaffolding learning, modeling social skills, questioning for understanding, involving parents, and more!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412926737
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/14/2006
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.46(d)

About the Author

Dianne Miller Nielsen has been an early childhood educator for more than 30 years. She currently owns an early childhood teacher training agency, Nielsen Training Services, Inc. This agency provides workshops, seminars, and courses for early childhood teachers and child care center directors, including training for the nationally recognized Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. She is currently designated as a Master Trainer in the Texas Early Care and Education Trainer Registry. Dianne is also an active member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, having contributed to the journal Young Children, and continuing to serve as a validator for program accreditation. She recently completed her second term of office as Vice-President of the San Antonio chapter of NAEYC. Dianne speaks and keynotes at many national, state and local conferences, and currently provides consultation services for a number of early childhood programs.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Welcome to the Early Childhood Profession!
Part I. Early Childhood Education Goals, Roles, and Curriculum Planning
1. Goals of Early Childhood Education
2. The Teacher’s Role
3. Planning a Curriculum for Young Children
Part II. Teaching Through the Environment With Learning Centers
4. Art Center
5. Blocks Center
6. Dramatic Play Center
7. Literacy Centers
Puppet Center
Listening Center
Library Center
Writing Center
ABC Center
Computer Center
8. Math and Manipulatives Center
9. Science Center
10. Music Center
11. Cooking Center
12. Woodworking Center
13. Clay and Dough Center
14. Construction Center
15. Sensory Center
16. Outdoor Play Center
Part III. Just About Everything Else
17. Classroom Management, Schedules, and Routines
18. Special Events
19. Parent Involvement
Resources
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Dianne Miller Nielsen's indispensible new edition is a must-have for every early childhood teacher. Explaining how to manage a classroom while encouraging children to make good choices and assume greater responsibility for managing their own behavior (among many others things!), the book will help new teachers get started and veteran teachers improve what they're already doing."

Sharon MacDonald

"Dianne Miller Nielsen's indispensible new edition is a must-have for every early childhood teacher. Explaining how to manage a classroom while encouraging children to make good choices and assume greater responsibility for managing their own behavior (among many others things!), the book will help new teachers get started and veteran teachers improve what they're already doing."

Sharon Mac Donald

The second edition of Teaching Young Children takes an already valuable book and moves it up solidly to the next level. Aimed at new preschool and kindergarten teachers, this pragmatic, nuts-and-bolts guide articulately backs up practice with solid theory. I’m equally certain that experienced teachers will peruse it and murmur, 'Oh, if only I had such a book when I was starting out.'

Larry Garf