Bøger udgivet af National Association for the Education of Young Children

Use nature to promote growth across all domains

Successful and effective preschool teachers use creative, engaging approaches to support the development and learning of every child in the classroom. The highly relevant and practical articles in this volume offer research-based, developmentally appropriate strategies that preschool teachers can use or adapt for their work with young children and families.

If you think the words young children and physics don't belong together, think again. Based on the theories of Piaget and the work of DeVries and Sales, this book successfully makes the case for building a constructivist approach to physical science learning in the early childhood classroom.

Play helps children learn to understand themselves and get along with others; explore their environment; investigate science, math, and literacy; learn about their communities; and much more. The articles in this collection emphasize the importance of play - from infancy through the primary grades - to support and scaffold children's play and connect play to learning.

Many early childhood educators are unsure of how to assess young children's development and learning. This straightforward book will help increase understanding of child assessment, including its specialized and often confusing vocabulary. Focusing on children's development and learning, the authors provide an overview of basic assessment concepts.