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The text goes into great depth about each of the target age groups needs for physical, social/emotional, and cognitive/language environments.
The play section is well developed and provides excellent examples and theory
Gestwicki?s DAP is an excellent early childhood text. I think it is better than the text I currently use. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
The play section is well developed and provides excellent examples and theory
Gestwicki?s DAP is an excellent early childhood text. I think it is better than the text I currently use. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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Thoughtful and comprehensive, DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE: CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY EDUCATION, 4/E, is designed to meet the needs of new early childhood students as well as experienced teachers, professionals, and parents. It provides an overview of the concepts and theoretical foundations of developmental practices and discusses the practical implications for teachers and caregivers. This edition, thoroughly revised to reflect the new NAEYC position statement on Developmentally Appropriate Practice (third edition, 2009), also includes new content on aligning early childhood teaching practices with national education standards, in addition to many new student-oriented features and applications. Section I explores developmentally appropriate practice, including an in-depth section on the theory and research of play as well as discussion of early learning standards in curriculum development. Students also learn how well-known curriculum approaches fit into the principles of developmentally appropriate practice. Subsequent comprehensive sections, which discuss the physical, social/emotional, and cognitive/language domains, individually address appropriate practice for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and primary-aged children. Section V, available on the text website, discusses how teachers can make changes that result in more developmentally appropriate practices and how to gain support for those changes with families and communities.
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A Near-Perfect Supplement To Bredekamp/Copple's Jewel,
By Reginald Williams - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Curriculum and Development in Early Education (Paperback)
For many early childhood professionals, Bredekamp and Copple's DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE (DAP) is the bible for those who teach young children. For others, their breakdown of the concept remains convuluted, complex, and difficult to implement in many school settings. This is the gap that this book heroically attempts to fill...and succeeds on many levels.As a scholar on homeless young families, I was first familiar with Carol Gestwicki's excellent HOME-SCHOOL RELATIONS. It comes to my delightful surprise to find her having penned this gem. The arrange of the book from the beginning is right on target: by developmental domains. After a well written first section beginning with defining DAP, connecting it from the start with play, and closing with how both determine curriculum, Gestwicki goes to the all important physical domain taking the reader into the familiar theories and child developmental ideas yet keeping DAP as the underlying context through which to understand each concept. In fact, each section's chapters are arranged developmentally (from infancy to early elementary children). She continues this same approach through the social/emotional section and language cognitive section. What you ultimately get in this book is a combination of a close examination of DAP, a child development overview, and a curriculum text. Its an amalgamation that truly captures the essence of DAP: teaching from a developmentally perspective, not from a standards-based educational (SBE) perspective. I would be eager to see how this book works in an early childhood curriculum course. It does not necessarily cover early childhood approaches to the traditional areas (Math, Science, Literacy, etc.), only has a scant one chapter on the familiar curriculum models (Montessori, High Scope, etc.), and does not really cover the conventions of a traditional early childhood classroom (small group, large group, etc.). Still, DAP is much more than these conventions; this book offers what DAP truly tries to capture: nuturing children developmentally based on their strengths, weaknesses, and cultural background. This can take on many many forms. It begins and ends there that idea. Not bad....
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I am very happy with the book. The only problem with it was the mail person just shoved it in the mailbox ripping the package and damaging the top right corner of the book. The book was otherwise in perfect condition and has been getting me through my class very well so far.
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The Bible for child care professionals. A must read!,
By Bridgette H. "bridgetokindergarten" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Developmentally Appropriate Practice (Paperback)
A terrific reference. Anyone who wants to be the best child care teacher they can be should own this book. It's my Bible for developing and maintaining my developmentally appropriate teaching style.
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