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Introduction to curriculum for early childhood education

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Welcome to learning about how to effectively plan curriculum for young children. This textbook
will address:
- Developing curriculum through the planning cycle
- Theories that inform what we know about how children learn and the best ways for teachers to support learning
- The three components of developmentally appropriate practice
- Importance and value of play and intentional teaching
- Different models of curriculum
- Process of lesson planning (documenting planned experiences for children)
- Physical, temporal, and social environments that set the stage for children’s learning
- Appropriate guidance techniques to support children’s behaviors as the self-regulation abilities mature.
- Planning for preschool-aged children in specific domains including
- Physical development
- Language and literacy
- Math
- Science
- Creative (the visual and performing arts)
- Diversity (social science and history)
- Health and safety
- How curriculum planning for infants and toddlers is different from planning for older children
- Supporting school-aged children’s learning and development in out-of-school time through curriculum planning
- Making children’s learning visible through documentation and assessment

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Series Title

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Call Number

372.19 PAR i

Publisher

Santa Clarita, California : College of the Canyons., 2018

Collation

514p. : ill.

Language

English

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Classification

372.19

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Subject(s)

Early childhood education
Classroom management
Early childhood education--Curricula

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Statement of Responsibility

by Jennifer Paris, Kristin Beeve, and Clint Springer

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