Early Childhood Education Today

by George S. Morrison

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 appropriateenvironments 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Textbooks, Education

572 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

School books can be sooooo boring. This one really irritated me.

I'm reading along and it says watch this video to see blah, blah, blah, and the word video is blue like there's a link to click. What the feathers?!?!?!? How can you watch a video in a physical book?

Textbook bonfire still scheduled for May 2019!

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was the Redundant Book of Redundancies.

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a lot of very good information presented in this book that is applicable to early childhood classrooms and into early elementary grades. I know I will take a lot of what I read with me when I enter the world of teaching. Unfortunately, when I am reading a textbook, I prefer that the text be free from author bias. On several occasions (but not consistently) the author actually said phrases like "I believe..." and "My opinion...". I was not reading this book to receive the author's opinions on the subject of Early Childhood Education, but rather to gain information and insight to the dynamics and ever changing structure of the profession. If I had wanted to read how an author felt about Montessori schools, I would have found an opinion piece on the subject. While I know bias and opinions cannot be totally erased, I would prefer the tone of my textbooks to be without personal opinions clearly stated.

[Becky Everhart · Rating 3 out of 5]

Once again, I could not find my exact edition, as it was put out by my college to make a quick buck, so I've chosen what seems to be a comparable edition. This book is meant to education blossoming early childhood education professionals about current issues and some back history of the early childhood educational field and what it means to be a part of the field. The inside cover has a helpful chart referring readers to which NAEYC Standards for Early Childhood Professional Preparation Programs are addressed in which chapters. Some of the information, such as how to perform assessments, was very helpful, but I feel they could have been explained more thoroughly. There is regular emphasis on dealing with children who may need differentiated instruction, such as those with disabilities or language issues.

[Brionne · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the book I use for the course I am teaching.

[Amber]

1 copy available

[Chelsea · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great read for college and learned a lot.