Culturally Responsive Teaching for Infants and Toddlers: Strategies to Strengthen Development and Learning - Couverture rigide

Masterson, Marie L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807787612 ISBN 13 : 9780807787618

Editeur : Teachers' College Press, 2025

Synopsis

Use these teaching tips and activities to create high-quality settings and interactions that empower infants and toddlers.

This book presents an expanded view of infant and toddler development to equip educators with the knowledge dispositions and skills to create high-quality settings and interactions so that every child can have the best start in life.

Readers are encouraged to consider the perspective of the child. What does this classroom this teacher and this experience look like and feel like to each child? How do teachers develop deeper understanding of development and learning in the context of children's families cultures and lives and apply this knowledge to teaching decisions? Each chapter offers resources research teaching tips activities to empower children and questions for reflection and discussion.

Culturally Responsive Teaching for Infants and Toddlers addresses the need for cultural safety and coherence between families and programs the need for rich language and learning opportunities throughout the day strategies for observing children and using this information to design curriculum individualized interactions to facilitate play-based learning and teaching strategies that strengthen each child's emerging skills and capabilities.

Book Features:

• Shows how cultural beliefs child-rearing practices and language are active prime-movers in infant and toddler teaching decisions and must be made visible through reflective practice.
• Illustrates insightful and caring strategies for building authentic relationships with families to guide planning and decision-making.
• Applies NAEYC's developmentally appropriate practice position statement (2020) to the complex challenges encountered by teachers working with infants and toddlers and their families.
• Reimagines teaching through the lens of collaboration and creative thinking anchoring these as essential foundations of active play outdoor and nature play and health and well-being.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marie L. Masterson is the manager of early childhood education competence and practice for the Council for Professional Recognition. She is a licensed teacher, a national speaker, an award-winning author, and a former higher education faculty teacher trainer, director of quality assessment for Illinois ExceleRate, and early childhood specialist for the Virginia Department of Education.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Teachers' College Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807787612
• ISBN 13: 9780807787618
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Max & Lily; https://maxandlily.com/; ; 525 West 120th Street; New York; NY; 10027; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible