Reflecting Children's Lives: A Handbook for Planning Your Child-Centered Curriculum

By Margie Carter and Deb Curtis

Book Overview

Make the complex task of creating a child-centered curriculum easier with the practical guidelines and ideas in this updated and expanded handbook. Learn how to sharpen your observation and documentation skills, set up your space, and transform your teaching to reflect children's interests and needs. Insightful classroom stories, assessment tools, checklists, comparative charts, and activities encourage new approaches and self-reflection as you plan your curriculum and put it into practice. Addressing new standards in early education, two new chapters focus on teaching academics in a meaningful way and guiding children as they play and learn. Reflecting Children's Lives is your work in progress--use it to record the development of your own thinking and practice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605540390
• ISBN13: 9781605540399
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Redleaf Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent resource for teachers of young children

This is a well written and user friendly guide to developmentally appropriate program planning. It guides with lots of questions and gives good examples. Debbie Curtis is in touch with the latest thinking in the early childhood field. I highly recommend this resource to teachers and program directors.

A great workbook for developing a child-centered classroom

This book gives preschool teachers a framework for evaluating their teaching practices, and understanding the value of a child-centered curriculum. The authors do a wonderful job of explaining their philosophy, and demonstrating how it can be effective in real-life classrooms. A must-read for all people working with young children