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Student Study Guide to Accompany Exploring Your Role: A Practitioner's Introduction to Early Childhood Education - Softcover
Synopsis
This book frames content in a way that defines the “what, why, and how” of becoming an early childhood educator. It prepares readers for the variety of roles (advocate, facilitator, planner, mediator, etc.) they must assume in working with children, parents, colleagues, principals, administrators, and the community at large. Its innovative coverage focuses on helping readers fulfill these roles in a caring, competent, knowledgeable manner, through case studies and numerous opportunities for reflection. Organized around the twelve essential roles and responsibilities of effective early childhood educators as delineated by the NAEYC Guidelines for Preparation of Early Childhood Professionals (2000), coverage includes demographic changes in families, advances in psychology, political influences, cultural diversity, and issues of inclusion. For future teachers of children from birth to age 8.
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From the Back Cover
Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education
Third Edition
Mary Renck Jalongo & Joan Packer Isenberg
Exploring Your Role offers an integrated and innovative introduction to early childhood education, organized around NAEYC’s twelve essential teaching roles. Its content and pedagogy help students to make connections among teacher roles, theory, research, and practice. Exploring Your Role is an interactive text that encourages students to function as reflective practitioners in response to case study material. Features such as “Did You Know?” “Meet the Teachers,” “Ask the Experts,” and “One Child, Three Perspectives,” lead students in building personal connections with practice as they develop professional knowledge in working with families and educators. To underscore students’ growing understanding of diverse learners, diversity icons alert readers to relevant sections.
Key changes to this edition:
- Margin notes direct students to the Teacher Prep Website to analyze high-quality video clips, artifacts, and other resources (an access code card is included, providing full access to the site)
- A new Chapter 3 on diversity and equity issues, written by Beatrice S. Fennimore
- Each chapter’s learning outcomes are now linked to professional standards, including those from NAEYC, INTASC, and ACEI
- New and updated “Collaborating with Families” feature in each chapter
- Expanded content on ECE program types
- New standards-based lesson and unit plans
- Companion Website for students features practice assessments written in PRAXIS-like format to prepare students for their licensure exams and professional practica
Resources include an online Instructor’s Manual and Test Bank, an electronic test management system, WebCT and Blackboard, Power Point slides for instructors and note-taking slides for students, and a Companion Website. To view the website that accompanies this text, please go to http://www.prenhall.com/jalongo.
About the Author
Mary Renck Jalongo is a teacher, writer and editor. As a classroom teacher, she taught preschool, first grade and second grade, worked with children and families of migrant farm workers, and taught in the laboratory preschool at the University of Toledo. Currently she is a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she earned the university-wide award for outstanding teaching and is the Coordinator of the Doctoral Program in Curriculum and Instruction. As a writer, Dr. Jalongo has authored and edited more than 25 books, many of them textbooks in the field of early childhood education, such as Early Childhood Language Arts (4th ed. Allyn & Bacon) and Creative Thinking and Arts-Based Learning (4th ed. Merrill/Prentice Hall), Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education (3rd ed., Merrill/Prentice Hall) and Major Trends and Issues in Early Childhood Education: Challenges, Controversies, and Insights (2nd ed. Teachers College Press). Recent publications include the second edition of a book for the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Young Children and Picture Books; a Teachers College Press book, Planning for Learning: Collaborative Approaches to Lesson Design and Review; and an edited book for the Association for Childhood Education International, The Worlda (TM)s Children and Their Companion Animals: Developmental and Educational Significance of the Child/Pet Bond. Additionally, she has earned three national awards for excellence in writing and numerous teaching awards. Dr. Jalongo has been the editor-in-chief of the Springer international publication, Early Childhood Education Journal, for twelve years.
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- PublisherPearson Merrill Prentice Hall
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0131138081
- ISBN 13 9780131138087
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages194
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