Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum in Action

About this book

A comprehensive overview of all the components necessary to run an effective early childhood program as a teacher this bright new text remains keenly focused on application and skill-building utilizing several areas of child developmentaesthetic affective cognitive language physical and socialas the basis for curriculum planning. Includes curriculum areas such as aesthetics affective language physical social cognitive (math) and cognitive (science); chapters on child guidance; how to observe and assess childrens learning; detailed approaches to planning lessons days and weeks; circle time activities; creating learning centers both indoors and outside; and projects and themes with sample projects and lesson plan samples throughout. The book promotes several areas of child developmentaesthetic affective cognitive language physical and socialand incorporates subject matter areas (art math literacy and science) into the developmental domains rather than focusing on the subjects themselves. There are six activity types (exploratory play guided discovery problem-solving discussions demonstrations and direct instruction) in every domain presented to the reader as well. The contents of the book are all closely aligned to the current developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) guidelines. Strongly methods-based in its approach the book also imparts the how to of teaching with many developmentally appropriate examples of ways to teach children ages three to six years of age.