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Focusing on developmentally appropriate practices for young children ages 3-8, this text provides aspiring classroom teachers with in-depth knowledge of content area curriculum and assessment for Pre-K through third grade. Young children deserve the best teachers possible, and this text is focused on helping aspiring teachers become skillful in planning, implementing, and assessing appropriate activities. Each chapter is grounded in the most recent research and ill… More >>
Introduction to Early Childhood Education: Preschool Through Primary Grades, MyLabSchool Edition
This is a great book for anyone who is looking to get into the early education field but also for parents. It explores how kids learn and how early education shapes them. This book helped me pass the Praxis
Rating: 5 / 5
…with the renewed emphasis on infant and toddler caregiving, this text might become obsolete.
It remains relatively unchanged since the fourth edition. That’s good and bad.
It’s good because an instructor picking this new edition will not need to re-orient himself with the text’s format, organization, and layout. Chapter 6 is still about play while Chapters 9-10 cover langauge and literacy. Even the text itself has not changed that much with the exception of an updated idea or two.
It’s bad because, again, an instructor familiar with the text (like me) can’t help but think “Hey! Is Dr. Brewer doing anything to update this book?”. Don’t get me wrong: it’s the best book in the field for preschool to primary education, in my opinion. Babies and 2’s, though, are the latest focus on a many state early childhood agendas (or would-be agendas). I hope Dr. Brewer updates her book on this topic.
I’m quite curious to see how the next version will turn out.
Rating: 5 / 5