Part 1 — Teaching in Early Childhood Programs
Chapter 1 – Ready, Set, Go! : Teaching in Developmentally Appropriate Programs
Chapter 2 — What You Need to Know to Help Children Grow: Preparing to Teach
Chapter 3 – More than a Referee: Effective Child Guidance Strategies
Chapter 4 — Teacher, Teacher, What Do You See: Observing and Documenting Children’s Learning
Chapter 5 – Roadmaps to Success: Lesson Plans as Teaching Tools
Chapter 6 — Up Close and Personal: Teaching Children in Small Groups
Chapter 7 – Centered on Learning: Creating and Maintaining Activity Areas Indoors and Outside
Chapter 8 — All Together: Teaching Children in Whole Groups
Part 2: The Curriculum
Chapter 9 – The Aesthetic Domain: Celebrating the Artist Within
Chapter 10 — The Affective Domain: Exploring the Inner Self
Chapter 11 – The Cognitive Domain Part 1: Nurturing Young Scientists
Chapter 12 — The Cognitive Domain Part 2: Fostering Mathematical Thinking
Chapter 13 – The Language Domain: Enhancing Communication
Chapter 14 — The Physical Domain
Chapter 15 – The Social Domain: Interacting with Others
Part 3: Moving Forward
Chapter 16 - Projects and Themes
Appendix A – Sample Lesson Plans