Reflective Practice and Emergent & Play-Based Teaching
The Hundred Languages of Children - C. Edwards (Editor), L. Gandini (Editor), G. Forman (Editor)
- Young children (from birth to age six) are encouraged to explore their environment and express themselves through many “languages,” or modes of expression, including words, movement, drawing, painting, sculpture, shadow play, collage, and music. Leading children to surprising levels of symbolic skill and creativity, the system is not private and elite but rather involves full-day child care open to all, including children with disabilities.
Learning Together with Young Children: A Curriculum Framework for Reflective Teachers – Deb Curtis (Author), Margie Carter (Author)
- The book helps teachers create materials and a classroom culture reflective of their values: Teach through observation, reflection, inquiry, and action, and encourage children to represent their learning in multiple ways, including songs, stories, and drama. “A wealth of practical suggestions matched with a much deeper philosophy that will change your teaching forever.”
Windows on Learning: Documenting Young Children’s Work – Judy Harris Helm; Sallee Beneke; Kathy Steinheimer
- Completely updated, this popular guide provides teachers with a proven method for documenting (collecting, analyzing, and displaying) young children s work at school. Written by teachers for teachers, this classic resource also shows principals, curriculum coordinators, and directors of Head Start and other early intervention programs how to develop children s portfolios to share with parents or to use for assessment and other accountability purposes.
Emergent Curriculum in Early Childhood Setting: From Theory to Practice - Susan Stacey
- This book explores, from both the teacher’s and the student’s perspectives, how emergent curriculum principles and practices can improve any early childhood program. Sections on observation, documentation, assessment, and relationships that support learning provide a complete subject overview.
Emergent Curriculum in the Primary Classroom: Interpreting the Reggio Emilia Approach in Schools - Carol Anne Wien
- In this book, teachers and principals share their experiences with emergent curriculum, the creative practices they’ve developed in urban classrooms, Kindergarten to 3rd grade. We learn what they were trying to do, how they began the process, the challenges they faced, the decisions they made, and what happened with the children.
Developing Social and Emotional Skills
Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments – Deb Curtis (Author), Margie Carter
- Create healthy and inviting physical, social, and emotional environments for children in child care
The Morning Meeting Book (Strategies for Teachers) – Roxann Kriete (Author), Lynn Bechtel (Author)
- Morning Meeting is a powerful teaching tool for building community, increasing student investment, and improving academic and social skills. This comprehensive guidebook has helped thousands of teachers across the country use Morning Meeting to launch their school days.
The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter - Vivian Gussin Paley
- Paley reveals the subtle, involved process that occurs as a child learns to socialize and interact with other children. In her classroom, children become storytellers. She feels that by letting them create stories with alternate patterns of behavior, they learn new ways to achieve acceptable behavior. By tape-recording and analyzing (with her colleagues) children’s conversations and actions she shows how play is, among other things, a sort of rehearsal of problems, and misbehavior perhaps just a poor timing or performance.
Developing Executive Functioning Skills: Reflection, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, etc
In the Spirit of the Studio – Lella Gandini (Editor), Lynn Hill (Editor), Louise Cadwell (Editor), Charles Schwall (Editor)
- It explores how the experiences of children interacting with rich materials in the atelier affect an entire school’s approach to the construction and expression of thought and learning. “This book will help to promote a vibrant and creative approach to learning that will enrich American children’s educational experience.” – Barbara and Eric Carle
The GIANT Encyclopedia of Circle Time and Group Activities: For Children 3 to 6 – Kathy Charner, Rebecca Jones
- Filled with over 600 activities covering 48 themes, this book is jam-packed with ideas that were tested by teachers in the classroom. Many activities include suggestions on integrating the circle time or group activity into other areas of the curriculum.
Creative Resources for the Early Childhood Classroom - Judy Herr
- Used by early childhood educators across the world. A theme based curriculum, this book is presented in Alpha order and contains 70 different themes ranging from Ants to Zoo Animals. Each theme contains a variation of the following content depending upon that theme: Curriculum, Web, Theme Goals, Concepts for the Children to Learn, Vocabulary, Bulletin Board, Parent Letter, Music, Fingerplay, Science, Math, Dramatic Play, Arts and Crafts, Sensory, Large Muscle (Gross), Small Muscle (Fine), Field Trips, Social Studies, Group Time, Cooking, Transitions, Books, Multimedia, Recordings and Song Titles.
Classroom Management
Classroom Routines That Really Work for Pre-K and Kindergarten: Dozens of Other Routines that Set the Stage for Children’s Literacy and Help Them Feel at Home in the Classroom – Renee Creange, Kathleen Hayes
- Help children learn classroom routines! Filled with ideas for introducing and managing essential early childhood routines and activities that foster independence and build community.
Caring Spaces, Learning Places (Children’s Enivronments That Work) – Jim Greenman
- Children deserve to spend their days in well-designed environments that support their needs and stimulate their learning. Adults who spend their days teaching and caring for young children deserve environments that maximize their skills. Caring Spaces, Learning Places is a book of ideas, observations, problems, solutions, examples, resources, photographs, and poetry.
Early Childhood Education Theory
Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget & Vygotsky - Carol Garhart Mooney
- Find solutions and guidance in your classroom today by looking at the theoretical foundations of early childhood care. An intensive look at the ideas of five groundbreaking educational theorists, Theories of Childhood examines the work of John Dewey, Maria Montessori, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lev Vygotsky in relation to early childhood. Each theorist’s ideas are presented to help teachers and students look to the theoretical foundations of early childhood care for solutions and guidance in classrooms today.
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