Endless Opportunities for Infant and Toddler Curriculum : A Relationship-Based Approach

by Petersen, Sandra H.; Wittmer, Donna S.

• ISBN13: 9780132434447
• ISBN10: 013243444X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This new text helps parents, caregivers, and early interventionists prepare curriculum for our youngest learners. To encourage learning, the authors use a three-step approach -Respect, Reflect, and Relate. This book will help all those who care for infants and toddlers to translate their knowledge of child development into effective, individualized curriculum; it will not tell them what to do on Monday, but rather will help them to ask: "What decisions can I make on Monday that truly derives from the child's interest?" Through observation, they will choose a response that supports learning and the relationship and therefore achieve the primary goal of an infant/toddler care teacher- that is to support the parent-child relationship.

Table of Contents

Relationships As the Basis for Curriculum

Endless Opportunities for Engaging Families

Responsive, Safe, and Healthy Caregiving Routines

A Responsive Relationship-Based Environment

Endless Opportunities for Guidance and Relationship Realignments

Using Observation and Documentation for Responsive Planning and Ongoing Assessment

Endless Opportunities for Attachment and Emotional Development

Endless Opportunities for Social Development

Endless Opportunities for Learning and Thinking

Endless Opportunities for Language, Literacy, and Music Development

Endless Opportunities for Movement and Motor Development

Endless Opportunities for Fine Motor Development

Endless Opportunities for Creative, Sensory, and Symbolic/Dramatic Play Development

Endless Opportunities for Learning About the Outdoors

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