Description
Table of Contents
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE FIELD
1. Overview of the Profession
2. Historical Contexts
3. Early Childhood Program Models
PART II: FOUNDATIONS
4. Understanding How a Child Develops and Learns
5. Play in Childhood
6. Guiding Young Children
7. Working with Families and Communities
8. Diversity and Young Children
PART III: ORGANIZING FOR INSTRUCTION
9. Planning the Physical Environment: Indoors
10. Planning the Physical Environment: Outdoors
11. Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum
PART IV: THE CURRICULUM
12. Health and Wellness
13. Supporting Emotional and Social Development
14. Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies Learning
15. Language and Literacy Learning
16. The Creative Arts
17. Technology and Young Children
