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Preschool Teachers' Lives and Work focuses on preschool teachers as
people, what they do, and how they are affected by what they do.
Highly politicized and hotly debated, preschool today is
increasingly focused on comparatively narrow views of school
readiness and academic outcomes which are generally in opposition
to the broader view of readiness proposed by NAEYC. This powerful
book, based around interviews and data drawn primarily from Head
Start programs, illustrates the profound humanity of this
profession and underscores the pressing and insistent need for
greater investments in teachers' well-being.
Preschool Teachers' Lives and Work focuses on preschool teachers as
people, what they do, and how they are affected by what they do.
Highly politicized and hotly debated, preschool today is
increasingly focused on comparatively narrow views of school
readiness and academic outcomes which are generally in opposition
to the broader view of readiness proposed by NAEYC. This powerful
book, based around interviews and data drawn primarily from Head
Start programs, illustrates the profound humanity of this
profession and underscores the pressing and insistent need for
greater investments in teachers' well-being.
This text provides teachers, speech-language pathologists, and
others working with young children with methods for providing
systematic and engaging literacy instruction. The approaches it
treats are evidence based, being examined and refined by classroom
implementation. They cover the array of important early literacy
and language skills, both print based and meaning based
(phonological awareness, print awareness and letter knowledge,
story comprehension and vocabulary, and oral and written language).
In a casual style and tone, easily accessible to a wide variety of
readers, each chapter presents underlying research, applied
principles, and illustrations of a variety of contexts and
activities for instructional purposes. Ideas for school-home
connections are included as well.While there are a number of texts
that focus on emergent and early literacy curriculum (defining
curricular components and developmental progression), assessment,
and instructional delivery models, this book contains innovative
content not found elsewhere, including: Strategies and procedures
for coordinating class-wide literacy instruction and activities
with supplemental literacy services provided by support personnel
Specific ways to use paraeducators and parent or community
volunteers to increase instructional opportunities Procedures for
conducting effective professional development Integrated arts
curriculum and procedures Mechanisms for embedding literacy
learning in all classroom contexts with varied participant
structures in order to provide intense and frequent opportunities
for children to practice literacy skills Primarily targeted at
early childhood educators and speech-language pathologists at
preservice and practicing professional levels, the content will
also be relevant to any education professionals involved with
literacy instruction in early childhood settings, including reading
specialists, special educators, and teachers of English as a second
language. The book is also appropriate for undergraduate or
graduate level classes dealing with early language and literacy
instruction or with intervention in early childhood education,
speech-language pathology, or special education programs.
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