Child Development: Early Stages Through Age 12 - Softcover

Decker, Celia Anita

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9781631260391: Child Development: Early Stages Through Age 12

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ISBN 10: 1631260391 ISBN 13: 9781631260391

Publisher: Goodheart-Willcox, 2015

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The Child Development Workbook is designed to help students recall, review, and expand on the concepts presented in the text. A wide variety of activities is provided to help students understand how to meet children’s developmental needs. Includes activities that help students review the text; activities that invite students to think critically and provide opinions, evaluations, and conclusions; and activities that require students to observe and work with children. This supplement is a consumable resource, designed with perforated pages so that a given chapter can be removed and turned in for grading or checking.

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About the Author:

After a 38-year career in education, Celia A. Decker, Ed.D., retired as a professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. She taught courses in early childhood education, child development, and family relations. Dr. Decker was
coordinator of graduate studies in early childhood education. Before her position at Northwestern State University, she taught college courses at East Texas State University (now Texas AandM at Commerce) and at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Dr. Decker also taught public school
kindergarten in Kansas City, Kansas.

In addition to writing Child Development, Dr. Decker coauthors Parents and Their Children with Verdene Ryder. Dr. Decker has also published other books, numerous chapters in books, and articles. She presents papers at national and state annual meetings of professional associations, such as the
National Association for the Education of Young Children, Southern Early Childhood Association, Association for Childhood Education International, National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators, and the Society for Research in Child Development. She does extensive consultant work for Head
Start, Even Start, and local school systems.

During her years of teaching, Dr. Decker was named to Who's Who in Child Development Professionals, Who's Who in Personalities of the South, Who's Who in American Women, and the World's Who's Who in Education. In 1994, she was selected as the Outstanding Professor at Northwestern State
University.

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