Childhood Education articles from December 1998

Childhood Education archives from December 1998

Inquiry as key to early childhood teacher education.
December 22, 1998... By recognizing that understanding is a personal experience, teachers can advance their involvement in the growth process. One of the values that most early childhood teacher educators attempt to nurture is that of professional and personal...

Home literacy bags promote family involvement.
December 22, 1998... Programs and initiatives aimed at encouraging families' participation in children's learning are varied, widespread, and increasing in number. The importance of involving families in children's learning and school experiences is widely...

Engaging primary students: learning resource centers.
December 22, 1998... Instead of simply pushing groups of children through a set curriculum, many teachers are now looking to use developmentally appropriate techniques. Imagine a kindergartner planning and constructing a model airplane and then working hard to...

Creating a caring community in classrooms: advice from an intervention specialist.
December 22, 1998... We assure ourselves that home is home and school is school, yet children bring home to school as easily as they tote their backpacks and lunches. For nine years, I worked with elementary school children as an intervention specialist. This...

Parent involvement: more power in the portfolio process.
December 22, 1998... Assessment is at the cornerstone of education in the 1990s, resulting in an explosion of interest in alternative forms of assessment. Advocates for alternative assessment believe that classroom tasks should be redesigned to more closely...

Reflections on milestones: impetus for our future.(Association for Childhood Education International's 1998 Open House)
December 22, 1998... Milestones, such as the birth of a child/grandchild, wedding, anniversary, graduation, and other important days, provide wonderful opportunities for enriching our lives. These events are special opportunities for us to think of the past, savor...

Mommy, I'm hungry.(UNICEF report on the plight of the world's children)
December 22, 1998... As non-governmental organization (NGO) in consultative status with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and being associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information, ACEI receives a good deal of material in the mail...

Knowledge around the world.(People to People Ambassador Programs)
December 22, 1998... Knowledge is all around us - whether you are a teacher in Des Moines, Iowa, a tribal member in Nairobi, Africa, or a baker in Paris, France. Knowledge is the tool that allows people to teach a child to read a book, build a hut, or bake a loaf...

Making cultural connections through ethnic toys in the classroom.
December 22, 1998... Early childhood teachers and educators in the state of Virginia have realized that multicultural education must be more than incorporating a week-long theme on Mexico or China. They have realized that multicultural awareness for young children...

The special children in between: claiming their future.
December 22, 1998... Do you know this girl? She is a young 5th-grader who is qualified for the gifted program. She has been accepted as a member of the honors choir. She plays city-league soccer, and - without prompting - practices her piano. She sings solos in...

First-day jitters.(story of a student teacher)
December 22, 1998... September 2, 1998, brings with it the first day of school for students in Schaumburg, Illinois. It also rings the bell for this nervous student teacher. Over the summer, my friends and family members have asked if I was nervous about the...

Brain research and implications for early childhood education.
December 22, 1998... In this article, Gail Lindsey discusses new scientific research on brain development in very young children. The latest neurological findings are providing hard, quantifiable evidence of the significance of the early years in the development of...

Constructing a framework for linking course content and the learning process for teacher education students.
December 22, 1998... The purpose of this, our first article as the new editors of the Teaching Strategies column, is to help college and university teacher educators think about and plan for linking course content and the learning process. We want to encourage...

"Do I belong here?" Understanding the adopted, language-minority child.(teaching adopted, non-English speaking children)
December 22, 1998... As the United States becomes increasingly culturally diverse, schools will have to address how to meet the needs of growing numbers of non-native English-speaking children. Educators must be knowledgeable about the best ways to provide...

Teaching your toddler to drive: it's never too early.(raising safe drivers)
December 22, 1998... It was the moment they had been dreading for several years. Patrick had studied harder for his driving test than for any other test in his life. He had gotten his learner's permit and pleaded to go out driving so that he could practice. On the...

The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating Schools that Work.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Linda Darling-Hammond. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 352 pp. $25. Darling-Hammond presents 10 thoughtful and well-grounded chapters that speak to education reform in the United States. In part, this book appears to be a culmination of her...

Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Michael Lewis. New York: Guilford 226 pp. $22.95. Throughout a long and prolific career in child development research, Lewis has approached each project with passion. Altering Fate is no exception. Lewis suggests a view of development that...

Multiple Perspectives on Play in Early Childhood Education.(Review)
December 22, 1998... Olivia N. Saracho & Bernard Spodek, Editors. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. $74.50 hardcover, $24.95 paper. Saracho and Spodek, who are frequent collaborators, have compiled various play topics in their latest text. The...