Ecers-E: The Four Curricular Subscales Extension to the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale (Ecers-R) with Planning Notes

By Kathy Sylva, Iram Siraj-Blatchford, Brenda Taggart

This title is in the Environment Rating Scale (R) Family of Products.

ECERS-E is designed to be used with the Early Childhood Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R), an internationally recognized measure of quality in education and care written by Thelma Harms, Richard M. Clifford, and Debby Cryer. It not only complements the ECERS-R but extends the scales to provide additional insights into important aspects of literacy, mathematics, science, and environment, as well as practices related to issues of diversity. Given the current focus on emerging literacy and numeracy skills, the ECERS-E provides unique guidance on the kinds of environments that enhance learning in preschool settings. The curriculum domains within the scales bear important relationships to children's (age 3-5) cognitive and social/behavioral developmental outcomes.

Using the ECERS-E alongside the ECERS-R gives users a more complete picture of what a high-quality early childhood education program can look like. It can be used by program directors, teaching staff, agency staff, and in teacher training programs.

Convenient organization:

Literacy Items:

Print in the environment Book and literacy areasAdults reading with childrenSounds in wordsEmergent writing/mark makingTalking and listening

Mathematics Items:

Counting and application of countingReading and representing simple numbersActivities: Shape Activities: Sorting, matching and comparing

Science and Environment Items:

Natural materialsAreas featuring science/science materialsActivities: Non living Activities: Living processes Activities: Food preparation

Diversity Items:

Planning for individual learning needsGender equality and awarenessRace equality and awareness

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807751502
• ISBN13: 9780807751503
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.3" x 10.9"