This book is about creating an environment, experiences, interactions, and relationships that allow children (birth to age 5) in center-based and family child care programs to have authentic experiences that will promote their development and learning. To address planning and practice the authors zero in on knowing and respecting the individual child, the group, and working in partnership with families. Rather than focusing on educational activities per se, the emphasis is on paying attention to the child s whole experience in the program. The authors examine what you need to know about children and their families, how to translate that information into plans and experiences, and how to include parents in the process. The authors wrote this book to be a collaborative encounter with readers.

Making Links: A Collaborative Approach to Planning and Practice in Early Childhood Programs

Education & Teaching

Stonehouse, Anne

Gonzalez-Mena,Janet

Schools & Teaching

Teachers College Pr

A long-awaited new book by noted early childhood care and education experts, Prime Times is a practical guide for anyone interested in establishing a high-quality program for infants and toddlers. The authors help the reader understand in what context good child care exists and how to establish and maintain vital quality caregiving in infant and toddler programs. A practical and thoughtful guide packed with illustrations, charts and forms.

Prime Times: A Handbook for Excellence in Infant and Toddler Programs

Parenting & Relationships

Greenman, Jim

Parenting

Redleaf Press

The ability to use language (speak, read, write) is not something that children suddenly or automatically develop. It is a culmination of experiences with language that begin at birth. Sharing stories (oral storytelling, books) and other “story experiences” (conversations, songs, poems, rhymes) with infants and toddlers is critical to building their emerging literacy skills. At the same time, it expands their experience and understanding of the world and is a wonderful opportunity for fostering close relationships between child and adult.
 Sprinkled with helpful and delightful vignettes and ideas for stories to share, From Lullabies to Literature explains how the many types of stories are best used with very young children, with a particular focus on using books, and how caregivers can plan and provide story experiences most effectively, including by partnering with families.

From Lullabies to Literature: Stories in the Lives of Infants and Toddlers

Arts & Photography

Kennedy, Anne

Birckmayer, Jennifer

Music

The National Association for the Education of Young Children

Achieve quality care and education in your infant or toddler program with this practical guide—a sourcebook for establishing, organizing, and maintaining a quality program. This second edition includes topics such as developmental issues; infants and toddlers with special needs; staffing and staff training; creating learning and nurturing environments; establishing routines; discipline; health, nutrition, and safety policies; curriculum; partnering with parents; assessment; and program evaluation. Charts, tables, and illustrations enhance the text, and a CD-ROM offers reproducible forms, policy statements, and training handouts.

Prime Times, 2nd Ed: A Handbook for Excellence in Infant and Toddler Programs

Schweikert, Gigi

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