The Learning-Centered Kindergarten: 10 Keys to Success for Standards-Based Classrooms [Hardcover]

This innovative book helps kindergarten teachers align learning-centered practices with state standards and offers classroom vignettes, practical strategies, lesson plans, and other essential resources.This innovative book helps kindergarten teachers align learning-centered practices with state standards and offers classroom vignettes, practical strategies, lesson plans, and other essential resources.Ehlys book is vital for any novice early childhood teacher. Her straightforward writing style helps teachers understand developmentally appropriate practices, and the book?gives concrete examples on how to implement them in todays accountability-driven educational climate.The book brings home the important point that the kindergarten year, when designed appropriately and taught by effective and well-trained teachers, is the foundation for success in later years. The classroom snapshots transform theory into practice and make implementation of these outstanding guidelines like childs play! Provides concrete, usable examples for todays kindergarten teacher to reconcile the standards-based classroom with the learner-centered classroom.Foreword by Lisa S. Goldstein
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction: The Importance of Learning-Centered Kindergarten in Today's Standards-Centered World
No Child Left Behind, Standards, and Changes in Kindergarten
The Need for Learning-Centered Kindergarten
What Is a Learning-Centered Kindergarten?
Making Your Kindergarten a Learning-Centered Classroom
Key One: Embrace Kindergarten's Multiple Purposes
The Challenges of Teaching Kindergarten Today
Learning-Centered Kindergarten: A Bridge Between Two Worlds
Classroom Snapshot--Ms. Carlos Lesson: Sensory Awareness and Vocabulary Development
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