Sandra Duncan

Rethinking the Classroom Landscape (eBook, ePUB)

Creating Environments That Connect Young Children, Families, and Communities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An early childhood classroom should reinforce and enhance young children'ssense of belonging and connection to their environment, each other, theirfamilies, and their community. Rethinking theClassroom Landscapeinviteseducators and administrators to rethink the traditional classroom, withinspirational examples showing how to weave elementsthatreflecteachcenter'scommunityinto the classroom design and decoration. Colorful photos show what teachers can do to encourage a sense of communityunique to each classroom. Easy-to-implement ideas and strategies are basedon five guideposts that help educators create early childhood environments that vividly connect children, adults, and the surrounding community. Thesecommunity environments include connections to past and present, geography,typography, flora, and fauna.Rethinking the Classroom Landscape has won the Creative Child Magazine, 2017 Book of the Year Award.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gryphon House Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780876595664
• Artikelnr.: 45687095

Autorenporträt

With over 45 years of experience in the early care and education field and a doctorate in education, Dr. Duncan has extensive experience in working with young children and parents, teaching at the university level (doctorate students and early childhood students), PDA specialist for CDA candidates, designing and writing professional development programs for practitioners, and authoring several teacher resource books including Inspiring Spaces for Young Children and Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments (ROSIE). As the former owner of eleven early childhood programs (i.e., well baby clinic, reading diagnostic clinic, park and recreation, programs for special rights children, preschool, and child care) and current owner of eleven before- and after-school programs serving over 1,100 school agers for three public school systems, Dr. Duncan has a wide and varied background in early care and education. Most importantly, she is the proud grandma of Sierra Elizabeth.