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Early Childhood Education Today (with MyEducationLab), 11/E
George S. Morrison, University of North Texas

ISBN-10: 0135035325
ISBN-13: 9780135035320

Publisher: Merrill
Copyright: 2009
Format: Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap
Published: 04/11/2008

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The eleventh edition of this best-selling text does an excellent job presenting broad, foundational content on the issues and the field of early childhood education.  It is known for its clear presentation, voices of professionals features, and its strong coverage of development in its age-specific chapters.  It also presents the comprehensive coverage that most courses require on families, diversity, children with special needs, theories, programs, and technology.  Its coverage of professionalism has been woven through the book for several editions and is exceptionally strong. Key changes to this edition include integrated video clips and a robust online course using MyEducationLab resources, new content on Accomodating Diverse Learners, and additional curriculum and standards content in the age-specific chapters. It is now the Intro to ECE text with the strongest coverage of special needs on the market.


NEW Web-Based Assessment and Remediation Site. A variety of assessment items, supported by video, research articles, and other content from MyEducationLab, provide practice opportunities and scaffold learning. Includes pre- and posttest multiple-choice items and essay-format Building Teaching Skills and Homework and Exercises.

  • NEW Accommodations Sections with Strategies for Diverse Learners. New sections in each chapter provide strategies to accommodate learners with disabilities, English learners, and those with other special needs in inclusive classrooms. In addition, current research-based content and examples of teaching diverse learners are woven through all chapters by two early childhood special education college professors.
  • Chapter Content Aligned with NAEYC Standards.  Each chapter begins with NAEYC standards to help students understand how these standards connect with practice and impact quality in teaching and learning.
  • Expanded Coverage of Environments and Curriculum. Each age-specific chapter contains expanded discussions of developmentally appropriate environments and curriculum for young children, along with illustrations and tables to make the content accessible. Curriculum content helps students understand the reality of today’s early childhood classrooms.

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    NEW! This book now comes integrated with MyEducationLab, a unique site for you and your students where the classroom comes to life. Icons throughout the text integrate online features such as authentic in-class video footage, interactive simulations, rich case studies, and teacher and student artifacts designed specifically to support Early Childhood Education Today, 11e — all at no extra cost to your students! Click here to learn more about MyEducationLab.

    • NEW  Web-Based Assessment and Remediation Site. A variety of assessment items, supported by video, research articles, and other content from MyEducationLab, provide practice opportunities and scaffold learning. Includes pre- and posttest multiple-choice items and essay-format Building Teaching Skills and Homework and Exercises.
    • NEW  Accommodations Sections with Strategies for Diverse Learners. New sections in each chapter provide strategies to accommodate learners with disabilities, English learners, and those with other special needs in inclusive classrooms. Moreover, current research-based content and examples of teaching diverse learners are woven through all chapters by two early childhood college professors, Dr. Michelle Laroque and Dr. Sharon Darling,  whose specialties are in special education.
    • NEW NAEYC Standards Presented at the Beginning of Each Chapter.
    • Expanded Coverage of Environments and Curriculum. Each age-specific chapter contains expanded discussions of developmentally appropriate environments and curriculum for young children, along with illustrations and tables to make the content accessible. Curriculum content helps students understand the reality of today’s early childhood classrooms.

     

    (Note:  Each chapter contains the features Linking to Learning, Activities for Professional Development, and Readings for Further Enrichment)

    PART 1        EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

     

    1.     You and Early Childhood Education: What Does It Mean to Be a Professional?

    What Is a Professional?

    The Five Goals of Professionalism

    Professional Dispositions

    What Are New Roles for Early Childhood Professional Today?

    2.    Current Issues and Public Policy: Contemporary Influences on Children and Families

    Public Policy and Current Issues

    Family Issues

    Social Issues

    Policy and Programming Trends

    Accommodating Diverse Learners

    3.    Observing and Assessing Young Children: Effective Teaching Through Appropriate Evaluation

    What Is Assessment?

    Assessment for School Readiness

    What is Observation?

    What Are Critical Assessment Issues?

    Accommodating Diverse Learners

    PART 2        FOUNDATIONS: HISTORY AND THEORIES

     

    4.    The Past and the Present: Prologue to the Future

    Why Is the Past Important?

    Historical Figures and Their Influence on Early Childhood Education

    The Beginnings of Kindergarten in the United States

    Twentieth Century Early Childhood Educators

    From Luther to the Present: The Essentials of Good Educational Practices

    Views of Children Through the Ages

    Accommodating Diverse Learners

    Child-Centered Education

    5.    Theories Applied to Teaching and Learning: Foundations for Practice

    Theories of Learning and Development

    Piaget's Theory of Learning

    Lev Vygotsky and Sociocultural Theory

    Abraham Maslow and Self-Actualization Theory

    Erik Erikson

    Howard Gardner

    Urie Bromfenbrenner and Ecological Theory

    Accommodating Diverse Learners

    New Directions in Cognitive Development

    PART 3        PROGRAMS AND SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

     

     

    6.    Early Childhood Programs: Applying Theories to Practice

    The Growing Demand for Quality Early Childhood Programs

    Principles of the Montessori Method

    The Montessori Method in Action

    High/Scope: A Constructivist Approach

    Reggio Emilia

    Waldorf Education: Head, Hands, and Heart

    7.    Child Care: Meeting the Needs of Children, Parents, and Families

    The World of Child Care

    What Is Child Care?

    Types of Child Care Programs

    What Constitutes Quality Care and Education?

    The Effects of Care and Education on Children

    8.    The Federal Government: Supporting Children's Success

    Federal Legislation and Early Childhood

    Head Start Programs

    Other Federal Initiatives

    Accommodating Diverse Learners

     

    PART FOUR        THE NEW WORLD OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

     

    9.    Infants and Toddlers: Foundation Years for Learning

    What Are Infants and Toddlers Like?

    Young Brains: A Primer

    Motor Development

    Intellectual Development

    Language Development

    Psychosocial and Emotional Development

    Infant and Toddler Mental Health

    Quality Infant and Toddler Programs

    Preparing Environments to Support Infant and Toddler Development

    Accommodating Diverse Learners

     

    10.  The Preschool Years: Getting Ready for School and Life

    Why Are Preschools So Popular?

    What Are Preschoolers Like?

    School Readiness: Who Gets Ready for Whom?

    Play and the Preschool Curriculum

    The New Preschool Curriculum: Standards and Goals

    Helping Preschoolers Make Successful Transitions

    Accommodating Diverse Learners

    Preschool Issues

    11.  Kindergarten Education

    Who Attends Kindergarten?

    Readiness and Placement of Kindergarten Children

    The Changing Kindergarten

    What Should Kindergarten Be Like?

    Environments for Kindergarteners

    Curriculum in Kindergarten

    Kindergarten Issues

    Accommodating Diverse Learners

    The Future of Kindergarten

    12.  The Primary Grades

    Teaching in Grades One to Three

    What Are Children in Grades One to Three Like?

    Primary Education Today

    Looking to the Future

    PART 5        MEETING THE SPECIAL NEEDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN

     

    13.  Technology and Young Children

    The Computer Generation

    Equity in Technology

    Technology and Special Childhood Populations

    Implementing Technology in Early Childhood Education Programs

    Parents and Technology

    The Technological Future and You

    14.  Guiding Children

    The Importance of Guiding Children's Behavior

    A Social Constructivist Approach to Guiding Children

    Teacher Effectiveness Training

    Nine Keys to Guiding Behavior

    Development of Autonomous Behavior

    Physical Punishment

    Trends in Guiding Children

    15.  Multiculturalism

    Multicultural Awareness

    Multicultural Infusion

    Bilingual Education Programs

    Trends in Multicultural Education

    16.  Children with Special Needs

    Children with Disabilities

    Gifted and Talented Children

    Abused and Neglected Children

    17.  Parent, Family, and Community Involvement

    Changes in Schooling

    Changes in Families

    Education as a Family Affair

    Guidelines for Involving Parents and Families

    Community Involvement and More

     

    Appendix A    NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct and Statement of Commitment

    Appendix B    NAEYC Guidelines for Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs

    Appendix C    Time Line: The History of Early Childhood Education

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    Early Childhood Education Today provides the current and comprehensive coverage you expect, plus an advanced assessment and remediation system to support student achievement. New accommodations/inclusion content, NAEYC standards, and curriculum coverage are three other significant additions to this revised edition.  Other hallmarks of this leading text are its exceptionally strong coverage of professionalism and its profiles of programs and professionals.   

     

    NEW Web-Based Assessment and Remediation Site. A variety of assessment items, supported by video, research articles, and other content from MyEducationLab, provide practice opportunities and scaffold learning. Contains pre- and posttest multiple-choice items, and  essay-format Building Teaching Skills, and Homework and Exercises.

     

    NEW Accommodations Sections with Strategies for Diverse Learners. New sections in each chapter provide strategies to accommodate learners with disabilities, English learners, and those with other special needs in inclusive classrooms. In addition, current research-based content and examples of teaching diverse learners are woven through all chapters by two early childhood special education college professors.

     

    Chapter Content Aligned with NAEYC Standards.  Each chapter begins with NAEYC standards to help students understand how these standards connect with practice and impact quality in teaching and learning.  

     

    Expanded Coverage of Environments and Curriculum. Each age-specific chapter contains expanded discussions of developmentally appropriate environments and curriculum for young children, along with illustrations and tables to make the content accessible. Curriculum content helps students understand the reality of today’s early childhood classrooms.

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      • Engaging in the Language Arts is a new text that defines the discipline of language arts. This text emphasizes the need for teachers to draw upon the language power of students–the best language resource in their classrooms–in order to succeed in teaching to our increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse student body.

       

      Engaging in the Language Arts offers students a firsthand look at the language challenges teachers will face and how teachers need to identify these language possibilities and know how to make optimal use of these possibilities in their classrooms. Distinguished author team Donna Ogle and Jim Beers have crafted an ideal text for instructors seeking a focus on contemporary communication and visual literacy, using varied genre and electronic resources. Ogle and Beers present a lively narrative, clear organization, exceptional pedagogy and special features that bring the language arts to life for teachers.

       

      Unlike comparable texts, Engaging in the Language Arts helps teachers ensure that students learn to use language to communicate with others, to explore ideas, and to demonstrate their learning orally and in written formats. While covering all of the basic writing processes, the text places a unique emphasis on the actual purpose behind teaching writing and also includes classroom-based assessments and activities reflecting state and national standards that provide important resources to help teachers differentiate instruction.

    • 0205430937Engaging in the Language Arts: Exploring the Power of Language (Book alone)
      Ogle & Beers
      © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 608 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0205430937 | ISBN-13: 9780205430932
      Brief Description

      • Engaging in the Language Arts is a new text that defines the discipline of language arts. This text emphasizes the need for teachers to draw upon the language power of students—the best language resource in their classrooms—in order to succeed in teaching to our increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse student body.

       

      Engaging in the Language Arts offers students a firsthand look at the language challenges teachers will face and how teachers need to identify these language possibilities and know how to make optimal use of these possibilities in their classrooms. Distinguished author team Donna Ogle and Jim Beers have crafted an ideal text for instructors seeking a focus on contemporary communication and visual literacy, using varied genre and electronic resources. Ogle and Beers present a lively narrative, clear organization, exceptional pedagogy and special features that bring the language arts to life for teachers.

       

      Unlike comparable texts, Engaging in the Language Arts helps teachers ensure that students learn to use language to communicate with others, to explore ideas, and to demonstrate their learning orally and in written formats. While covering all of the basic writing processes, the text places a unique emphasis on the actual purpose behind teaching writing and also includes classroom-based assessments and activities reflecting state and national standards that provide important resources to help teachers differentiate instruction.

    • 0137147953Engaging in the Language Arts: Exploring the Power of Language (with MyEducationLab)
      Ogle & Beers
      © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0137147953 | ISBN-13: 9780137147953
      Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

      • The first book of its kind, Essentials of Educational Psychology focuses squarely on the core concepts, principles, and underlying assumptions of the field of educational psychology–the big ideas of ed psych.  Because of this focus and the book’s exceptionally direct and clear presentation, Essentials is a 10 chapter book that can truly be covered and understood in a term.  It is a book that enables and empowers students to understand the value and essential importance of educational psychology to becoming a qualified and quality teacher.

    • 0135016576Essentials of Educational Psychology (Book alone), 2/E
      Ormrod
      © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 504 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0135016576 | ISBN-13: 9780135016572
      Brief Description

      • The first book of its kind, Essentials of Educational Psychology focuses squarely on the core concepts, principles, and underlying assumptions of the field of educational psychology–the big ideas of ed psych.  Because of this focus and the book’s exceptionally direct and clear presentation, Essentials is a 10 chapter book that can truly be covered and understood in a term.  It is a book that enables and empowers students to understand the value and essential importance of educational psychology to becoming a qualified and quality teacher.

    • 0135035279Essentials of Educational Psychology (with MyEducationLab), 2/E
      Ormrod
      © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0135035279 | ISBN-13: 9780135035276
      Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

      • Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education has always been known for it's innovation, strong research base and accessibility.  The ninth edition has all of those strengths, but has a greater focus on highly effective, research-based practices that are described in a very step-by-step, applied manner.  This book is for those teachers who will be professionals in the area of special education or those who are working with students that have exceptionalities.
    • 0135144361Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (Book alone), 9/E
      Heward
      © 2009 | Merrill | Cloth; 656 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0135144361 | ISBN-13: 9780135144367
      Brief Description

      • Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education has always been known for its innovation, strong research base and accessibility.  The ninth edition has all of those strengths, but has a greater focus on highly effective, research-based practices that are described in a very step-by-step, applied manner.  This book is for those teachers who will be professionals in the area of special education or those who are working with students that have exceptionalities.
    • 0135035295Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (with MyEducationLab), 9/E
      Heward
      © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0135035295 | ISBN-13: 9780135035290
      Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

      •  Exceptional Learners is an outstanding introduction to the characteristics of exceptional learners and their education, emphasizing classroom practices as well as the psychological, sociological, and medical aspects of disabilities and giftedness.  In keeping with this era of accountability, all discussions and examples of educational practices are grounded in a sound research base.

       

      With over 600 new references added to the 11th edition, the authors are committed to bringing the most current and credible perspectives to bear on the ever-increasing complexity of educating students with special needs in today’s schools.  The authors believe firmly that responsible instruction can help all students to maximize their potential, and they offer practical suggestions for ways in which educators can meet the educational needs of students with special needs and diverse abilities in collaborative environments that include families, other professionals, and the community. 

    • 013606793XExceptional Learners: Introduction to Special Education (with Cases for Reflection and Analysis and MyEducationLab), 11/E
      Hallahan, Kauffman & Pullen
      © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 656 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 013606793X | ISBN-13: 9780136067931
      Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

      • This single most-adopted Inclusion text worldwide continues to provide the best source of practical strategies for teaching students with special needs in inclusive settings.  Filled with examples and vignettes, the emphasis is always on teaching methods that promote student independence at all education levels.  Its non-categorical approach helps teachers ensure all students’ success regardless of their specific categories of exceptionality. 

       

      The new edition provides significantly updated information about IDEA and NCLB, including their impact on IEPs, and the latest ideas and information about inclusive practices in the context of contemporary public education, and the dilemmas that teachers often face in appropriately educating students with disabilities in general education settings. Unique topics include the rights of general education teachers, comprehensive treatment of assessment and evaluation, examples of accommodations for students with significant disabilities, information about gifted underachievers, functional behavior assessment and behavior plans, and how to be proactive in dealing with student behavior.

    • 0205571069Including Students With Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers (Book alone), 5/E
      Friend & Bursuck
      © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 592 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0205571069 | ISBN-13: 9780205571062
      Brief Description

      • This single most-adopted Inclusion text worldwide continues to provide the best source of practical strategies for teaching students with special needs in inclusive settings.  Filled with examples and vignettes, the emphasis is always on teaching methods that promote student independence at all education levels.  Its non-categorical approach helps teachers ensure all students’ success regardless of their specific categories of exceptionality. 

       

      The new edition provides significantly updated information about IDEA and NCLB, including their impact on IEPs, and the latest ideas and information about inclusive practices in the context of contemporary public education, and the dilemmas that teachers often face in appropriately educating students with disabilities in general education settings. Unique topics include the rights of general education teachers, comprehensive treatment of assessment and evaluation, examples of accommodations for students with significant disabilities, information about gifted underachievers, functional behavior assessment and behavior plans, and how to be proactive in dealing with student behavior.

    • 0205626815Including Students With Special Needs: A Practical Guide for Classroom Teachers (with MyEducationLab), 5/E
      Friend & Bursuck
      © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 592 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0205626815 | ISBN-13: 9780205626816
      Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

      • This first edition text is designed to help pre-service teachers identify and confirm certification levels for their future careers, as well as better understand the learning process across the preK-12 environment.  An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path is unique due to its approach--focusing on 12 students (a variety from all grade levels) as well as teachers and administrators.  The author not only uses these focus students, teachers, and administrators in the opening chapter scenarios, but carries them through the text as classroom examples.

       

      The text is accompanied by video that includes classroom footage of the focus students and teachers.  No other introduction to teaching text does this: realistically captures students and teachers in action, includes them in the text as examples, and also includes photographs of the focus subjects.

       

      The overall theme is "how are the children?", reminding readers that no matter what they do in the classroom or in their professional development, that as a teacher they must always remember the student first in all actions.

    • 0131192523Introduction to Education, An: Choosing Your Teaching Path (Book alone)
      Powell
      © 2009 | Merrill | Paper; 544 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0131192523 | ISBN-13: 9780131192522
      Brief Description

      • This first edition text is designed to help pre-service teachers identify and confirm certification levels for their future careers, as well as better understand the learning process across the preK-12 environment.  An Introduction to Education: Choosing Your Teaching Path is unique due to its approach--focusing on 12 students (a variety from all grade levels) as well as teachers and administrators.  The author not only uses these focus students, teachers, and administrators in the opening chapter scenarios, but carries them through the text as classroom examples.

       

      The text is accompanied by video that includes classroom footage of the focus students and teachers.  No other introduction to teaching text does this: realistically captures students and teachers in action, includes them in the text as examples, and also includes photographs of the focus subjects.

       

      The overall theme is "how are the children?", reminding readers that no matter what they do in the classroom or in their professional development, that as a teacher they must always remember the student first in all actions.
    • 0137147937Introduction to Education, An: Choosing Your Teaching Path (with MyEducationLab)
      Powell
      © 2009 | Merrill | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0137147937 | ISBN-13: 9780137147939
      Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore

      • Language Arts: Patterns of Practice has long been a highly valued resource to pre-service teachers.  Built on a solid research base, this exceptionally applied and teacher-friendly text addresses all six language arts, modeling their integration into the curriculum through authentic student artifacts, classroom vignettes, and footage of master teachers in their language arts classrooms.  The seventh edition of the text, streamlined to provide a succinct, manageable model of language arts instruction, retains the rich classroom orientation, accessible writing style, and numerous features that have been the text’s hallmark, adding a sharpened focus on English Learners, deepened classroom application of the four patterns of practice, and integrated treatment of the almost limitless resources of the MyEducationLab website.  These new ideas and revisions have been crafted to help readers prepare for, plan for, and implement successful language arts instruction.   
    • 0137147767Language Arts: Patterns of Practice (with MyEducationLab), 7/E
      Tompkins
      © 2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap; 592 pages | Instock
      ISBN-10: 0137147767 | ISBN-13: 9780137147762
      Brief Description | Buy from myPearsonStore