Exploring Your Role focuses on helping readers fulfill these roles in a caring, competent, knowledgeable manner, through case studies, verbatim comments, and numerous opportunities for reflection.

Features:

• Includes a DVD which consists of 8 video segments filmed in 2005 in various early childhood centers and schools in the Miami, Florida area
• Emphasis on the twelve essential roles defined by the National Association on the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• Covers demographic changes in families, advances in psychology, political influences, cultural diversity, and issues of inclusion

Contents

1. Exploring Your Role as a Reflective Practitioner
2. Exploring Your Child Advocacy Role from an Historical Perspective
3. Exploring Your Role as a Child Development Specialist
4. Exploring Your Role in Fostering Young Children's Learning
5. Exploring Your Role as a Curriculum Developer
6. Exploring Your Role in Planning for Instruction
7. Exploring Your Role in Documenting Children's Learning
8. Exploring Your Role in Guiding Children's Behavior
9. Exploring Your Role in Supporting Families
10. Exploring Your Role as a Professional in the Field of Early Childhood Education

Index

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