Essentials For Child Development Associates Working With Young Children

Correlated to Child Development Associate Competency Goals, this two-year program text introduces essentials of care and early education for children ages 0 to 5 years.

All About Child Care and Early Education is a comprehensive resource for child care practitioners-or those looking to become child care practitioners-including teachers, care givers, family child care providers, administrators, and directors. It provides practical suggestions for setting up classrooms, for developing curricula for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, for meeting children's social-emotional needs, and for working effectively with parents and staff. Child Development Associate candidates and other students preparing for roles as educators of children ages 0-5 can use All About Child Care and Early Education as a primary text. Section I provides a brief history of child care and early education and sketches future challenges for the field. Section II describes developmentally appropriate indoor and outdoor learning environments. It covers the CDA competency areas safe, health, and learning environment. Section III provides broad developmental overviews of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. It describes the typical sequence of development in particular domains and suggests methods of enhancing development at each stage. Each of the CDA competency areas physical development, cognitive development, communication, and creative is covered in a Ch. . Section IV focuses on emotional and social development. It covers the CDA competency areas self, social, and guidance. Section V focuses on the behind-the-scenes relationships and practices of adults that generate positive outcomes for children. It covers the CDA functional areas program management, families, and professionalism. ... Publisher description.

History of Early Childhood Education presents a thorough and elegant description of the history of early childhood education in the United States. This book of original research is a concise compendium of historical literature, combining history with the prominent and influential theoretical background of the time. Covering historical threads that reach from ancient Greece and Rome to the early childhood education programs of today, this in-depth and well-written volume captures the deep tradition and the creative knowledge base of early care and education. History of Early Childhood Education is an essential resource for every early childhood education scholar, student, and educator.

The chapters in this volume reflect the impact that teachers have on their students when "they stand in front of the classroom" and the effect their performance have on children such as teachers gender, preparation, certification, knowledge, beliefs, cognitive style, creativity, accountability, and other actions on the part of the teachers. They describe research related to the preparation and certification or credentialing of early childhood practitioners, the issues regarding the nature of early childhood practice, and the needs of the field as it prepares for the future.