Week by Week: Plans for Documenting Children's Development - Softcover

Nilsen, Barbara Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0840031750 ISBN 13: 9780840031754

Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers

Synopsis

WEEK BY PLANS FOR DOCUMENTING CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT, Sixth Edition, addresses a dilemma facing pre-service and in-service teachers--how to manage detailed, meaningful documentation on their students' development and achievements while attending to the other functions necessary to keep children safe and actively involved in learning. This all-purpose guide provides a concrete, systematic plan for recording each child's development in all developmental areas, incorporating material on observation methods and techniques, principles of child development, and appropriate practice. Technical aspects of various methods of documentation are presented, as are reviews of the efficiency of each method in capturing important information. This edition features integrated coverage of NAEYC standards and new integration of TeachSource Videos, available for viewing at the book's website. Real-life examples, practical tips, forms with clear instructions, and step-by-step guidelines for gathering observational information and building a portfolio for each child make the book useful and relevant to teachers in training as well as practicing professionals.

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Ann Nilsen, Ed.D. is a former professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York. She is a past president of the New York State Association for the Education of Young Children. In addition to authoring WEEK BY WEEK: PLANS FOR DOCUMENTING CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT, Sixth Edition, Barbara is the author of AN INTRODUCTION TO LEARNING AND TEACHING: INFANTS THROUGH ELEMENTARY AGE CHILDREN, also published by Cengage Learning.

Review

"Week by Week is a comprehensive text, which effectively combines the personal, practical and professional to provide student teachers and practitioners with a complete system for looking closely at young children's progress and development.... There were points when I found that I was reading the text with as much absorption as if I were reading a novel." - Elizabeth A. Jenkins, Orlando Tech, Orlando, FL

"The textbook features are excellent. The vignettes, topics in observation, review sections, and summary sections including uses, advantages, disadvantages, pitfalls, and technology suggestions are all great. I love the "It Happened to Me"; who of us has not experienced at least one of these moments in our experience with children" - Alice D. Beyrent, M.Ed., Hesser College, Manchester, NH

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0840031750
• ISBN 13: 9780840031754
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5