Explorations with Young Children: A Curriculum Guide from Bank Street College of Education - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0876591608 ISBN 13: 9780876591604

Publisher: Gryphon House, 1992

Synopsis

This curriculum guide from Bank Street College provides an integrated approach for early childhood professionals, giving them a framework to use in developing activities which respond to the individual need and interests of their children. The Guide makes the Bank Street approach accessible to teachers everywhere and adds momentum to the movement toward child-centered, developmentally-appropriate programs for young children.

About this title

About the Author

Debbie Cunningham has been working professionally with young children for 19 years. In 1993, she opened her own facility called Children's Montessori Academy in her hometown of Titusville, FL. This is her first book with Gryphon House.

From the Back Cover

...Teachers, caregivers and teacher educators all over the country have been asking Bank Street to make its highly effective program available - they have wanted models of early education and care that are truly developmentally appropriate ... This book will play an important role in improving the quality of early childhood programs available. - Ellen Galinsky, Co-President, Families and Work Institute, and Past President, NAEYC

...This Guide makes the Bank Street approach to early education accessible to teachers and caregivers everywhere. All childhood professionals will applaud it and find it an invaluable resource in their work. - Edward F. Ziegler Sterling Professor of Psychology Yale University

Founded in 1916 as the Bureau of Educational Experiments, Bank Street College of Education continues to define and influence the education of young children in the US and abroad.

Explorations with Young Children: A Curriculum Guide from Bank Street College is a collaborative effort of all five divisions of Bank Street - the Graduate School of Education, the demonstration School for Children and Family Center, the Division of Continuing Education, the Publications Group and the Research Center for Children and Technology.

Explorations with Young Children is without a doubt one of the most exciting new releases in early childhood education in years. The Guide shows early childhood professionals how to develop their own curricula based upon the needs and interests of children.

Explorations with Young Children will add great momentum to the movement toward child-centered, developmentally-appropriate programs for our nation's youth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gryphon House
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0876591608
• ISBN 13: 9780876591604
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 309
• Editor: Cunningham Debra, Mitchell Adrian