Supporting Play in Early Childhood: Environment, Curriculum, Assessment - Softcover

Sluss, Dorothy Justus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1337568031 ISBN 13: 9781337568036

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2018

Synopsis

Establishing a successful classroom requires that you have knowledge of children and early childhood curricula. Essential for every preschool, kindergarten, and primary teacher's personal library, this book serves as a comprehensive guide to creating a play-based curriculum for young children. You'll find specific information about infant and toddler classrooms, preschool classrooms, kindergarten classrooms, and primary and middle childhood. Each chapter presents the benefits of play, suggests materials that children can use, and includes parent letters and checklists as well as practical tips for teachers. Information about how to set up an inclusive classroom appears throughout the book and is addressed in a separate chapter. You'll also save time with the detailed sample lesson plans that appear in the appendix.

About this title

About the Author:

Dorothy Louise Justus Sluss is a Professor at James Madison University, where she teaches and studies play, creativity, and inquiry. She discovered the power of play for young children when she started her career in a kindergarten classroom. This experience inspired her to devote the rest of her life trying to understand how children think, learn, and play. To this end, she spent 15 years teaching in public schools and 15 years teaching in higher education. Professor Sluss has had a variety of experiences in inclusion, private and public preschool, and elementary education. Since entering higher education, she has been active in publishing, teaching, and providing professional development. She has also served as a national leader of several professional groups and has received numerous awards for research and scholarship.

Review:

"This is a comprehensive text book on Early Childhood Curriculum development. It is sound in theory, research and application and is very well suited for students majoring in child development, early childhood education, and general psychology and special education."

"[This text is] visually appealing and well organized."

"Evidence-based content, complete, resourceful."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1337568031
• ISBN 13: 9781337568036
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 368