Bridging: Assessment for Teaching and Learning in Early Childhood Classrooms, PreK-3 - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412950104 ISBN 13: 9781412950107

Verlag: Corwin, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Includes a facilitator's guide to help teachers use familiar activities to observe children naturally in language and literacy, visual arts, mathematics, sciences, and the performing arts.

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Jie-Qi Chen, Ph.D., holds the Barbara T. Bowman Professorship in Early Education at Erikson Institute. Beginning as a teacher in various classroom settings, from toddlers to middle school, she has devoted three decades to teacher professional development. Dr. Chen founded the Early Math Collaborative at Erikson, a groundbreaking initiative that revitalized early mathematics education and empowered teachers to emphasize foundational math concepts. Her career spans expertise in early math education, classroom assessment, the educational impact of multiple intelligence theory, and teacher development. With 17 authored and edited books, translated into multiple languages, her contributions are widely recognized. Dr. Chen′s previous roles include Fulbright Senior Specialist in Education, consultant to the United Nations Children′s Fund, and membership in boards such as Scholastic Education′s Early Childhood Advisory Board and the National Association for the Education of Young Children′s Governing Board. Currently, she serves as a director at the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Gillian Dowley McNamee, Ph.D, is professor emeritus of child development and early childhood teacher education at Erikson Institute, Chicago, IL. She has worked with early childhood teacher candidates during their preparation for public school teaching as well as long term with teachers working with children growing up in challenging social and economic situations. Gillian has carried out professional development initiatives with teachers across the United States, Europe, Taiwan, several regions of China, Turkey, and Kyrgyzstan. She speaks nationally and internationally on how teachers can listen to young children in order to become the teacher young children need to secure their future. Dr. McNamee’s expertise is in language and literacy development, and in the work of Russian psychologist, L. Vygotsky as applied to early childhood settings. She has worked extensively with the story telling and story acting activities developed by Vivian Paley. She has been a Spencer Fellow with the National Academy of Education, and recipient of one of the first Sunny Days Award from Children’s Television Workshop/Sesame Street Parents for her work developing an innovative early childhood teacher preparation program.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Corwin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1412950104
• ISBN 13: 9781412950107
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
• Herausgeber: Chen Jie-Qi, McNamee Dr. Gillian Dowley
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