K Today: Teaching and Learning in the Kindergarten Year

by Dominic F. Gullo

Book Overview

Praise from the field for K Today: "Finally, a comprehensive resource filled with stat-of-the-art information that links theory with best practice! This book gives teachers and administrators the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1928896391
• ISBN13: 9781928896395
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: National Association for the Education of You
• Length: 173 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A New Essential Text

Gullo orchestrates a text from some famous early childhood experts (Mary Jalongo, Laura Berk, Carol Copple, Dorothy Strickland, Sharon Kagan) which serves as a mini-guide for the 21st century kindergarten. All the articles meet a need for just about any teacher or teacher educator at a university or vocational school. There are sections that cover curriculum & teaching, foundations & history, policy, and assessment. It's excellent. My favorite section, though, is the first chapter (by Graue) which immediately informs the reader that we no longer live in our grandmother's kindergarten. Today's K is a monster of a different form. Cold and academic rather than warm and holistically nurturing? Those are some of the questions that she tackles. She will raise some eyebrows. Every educator should put this on their essential shelf as THE kindergarten book to get...and it's really inexpensive:)