Exploring Your Role An Introduction to Early Childhood Education

9780131727991

0131727990

"Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education" Third Edition Mary Renck Jalongo & Joan Packer Isenberg "Exploring Your Role" offers an integrated and innovative introduction to early childhood education, organized around NAEYC' s twelve essential teaching roles. Its content and pedagogy help students to make connections among teacher roles, theory, research, and practice. "Exploring Your Role "is an interactive text that encourages students to function as reflective practitioners in response to case study material. Features such as " Did You Know?" " Meet the Teachers, " " Ask the Experts, " and " One Child, Three Perspectives, " lead students in building personal connections with practice as they develop professional knowledge in working with families and educators. To underscore students' growing understanding of diverse learners, diversity icons alert readers to relevant sections. Key changes to this edition: Margin notes direct students to the Teacher Prep Website to analyze high-quality video clips, artifacts, and other resources (an access code card is included, providing full access to the site) A new Chapter 3 on diversity and equity issues, written by Beatrice S. Fennimore Each chapter' s learning outcomes are now linked to professional standards, including those from NAEYC, INTASC, and ACEI New and updated " Collaborating with Families" feature in each chapter Expanded content on ECE program types New standards-based lesson and unit plans Companion Website for students features practiceassessments written in PRAXIS-like format to prepare students for their licensure exams and professional practica Resources include an online" Instructor' s Manual "and "Test Bank," an electronic test management system, WebCT and Blackboard, Power Point slides for instructors and note-taking slides for students, and a Companion Website. To view the website that accompanies this text, please go to http: //www.prenhall.com/jalongo.