Strategies for Teaching Young Children contains the kind of information that those who teach young children must search for in many different books. ,Here are numerous ideas for program development and activity design-an excellent, practical resource for curriculum and methods.
The areas covered in this book include:
* Conceptual framework-assumptions about children, the role of the teacher, the purpose of the school.
* Planning and organization-setting goals, involving the children, organizing time, space, staff, materials.
* Evaluating-collecting data, tests, making judgments.
* Specific teaching areas-aesthetic arts, language arts, mathematics, science, and social science.
Each chapter contains a discussion of the structure of the content area, the skills and concepts in the content area that are appropriate for young children, and specific activities that serve as examples of ways in which a child's learning can be supported in a particular content area.