Observing Development of the Young Child - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0023077417 ISBN 13: 9780023077418

Publisher: Merrill Pub Co, 1993

Synopsis

One of the few books that successfully combines observation techniques with child development, this user-friendly text takes an applied approach that allows students to observe, record, and interpret child development by looking at particular behavior. Using the observation data to determine the level of a childs development, plans and activities are illustrated to show students how to help children strengthen specific areas of development. * NEW - Features a new chapter on sharing data with parents and developing collaborative portfolios. Lists examples of portfolio items from each chapter. * NEW - The Prewriting and Prereading chapter has been rewritten to show more clearly how children teach themselves to write and read through a progression. * NEW - Expanded discussion of speaking another language to assist teachers with helping bilingual children. Also includes 53 new children's books with multicultural characters located throughout the text. * Exclusive to this book, the Child Skills Checklist can be used by teachers to determine children's levels of development. This self-teaching device is used as an outline for chapters and their content. * If You Have Not Checked This Ite

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From the Publisher

An excellent introduction to development in two-to six-year-olds...one whose unique Child Skills Checklist for observing and recording behaviors in the classroom really helps future early childhood teachers learn about children, in addition to learning how to observe and assess their behavior. This text begins with a discussion of the latest NAEYC (National Association for the Education of Young Children) guidelines for appropriate assessment of young children, and of observation as the preferred method for such assessment. This text is especially helpful in the treatment of written language and a natural part of emerging literacy rather than a learned activity, and also has excellent coverage of the imagination creativity link. Available as a companion text, is the author's Skills for Preschool Teachers, 4/Ed.

From the Back Cover

Observing Development of the Young Child, Seventh Edition

Janice J. Beaty, Professor Emerita, Elmira College 

 

Focuses on child development using a unique checklist to document each aspect of development.

 

This book teaches readers how to observe, record, and interpret development of children ages 3 through 5.  It also discusses what these children are like and how to support them in their development with exciting hands on activities. 

 

The text focuses on the six major aspects of child development: 

• Emotional
• Social
• Physical
• Cognitive
• Language
• Creative 

Teachers can use the author’s unique system of observation, The Child Development Checklist , to determine children’s levels of development.  This simple, self-teaching device is also used as an outline for chapters and their content. 

 

Strategies to support development

 

If You Have Not Checked This Item: Some Helpful Ideas -This expanded feature in each chapter gives students specific suggestions for activities that will help children developmentally in areas not checked on the checklist.

 

Includes coverage of all stages of development–Includes background research and practical activities to enhance development of each stage throughout the text.

 

Provides a separate chapter on sharing observational data with parents (Chapter 14)--Provides a unique approach to involving parents in their children's development through child observations at home and developing collaborative portfolios with teachers and children in the classroom.

Edition details

• Publisher: Merrill Pub Co
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0023077417
• ISBN 13: 9780023077418
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 389