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Friday, July 29, 2011

Early Childhood Studies Resources

Early Childhood Studies (Resources)

  • Video Program: “The Resources for Early Childhood”
    Five early childhood professionals discuss their preferred and trusted resources.

Note: Read the documents listed in Parts 1 and 2 in preparation for this week’s Discussion.

Part 1: Position Statements and Influential Practices


Part 2: Global Support for Children’s Rights and Well-Being


Note: Explore the resources in Parts 3 and 4 in preparation for this week’s Application assignment.

Part 3: Selected Early Childhood Organizations


Part 4: Selected Professional Journals Available in the Walden Library

Tip: Use the A-to-Z e-journal list to search for specific journal titles. (Go to “How Do I...?”, select “Tips for Specific Formats and Resources,” and then “e-journals” to find this search interface.)

  • YC Young Children
  • Childhood
  • Journal of Child & Family Studies
  • Child Study Journal
  • Multicultural Education
  • Early Childhood Education Journal
  • Journal of Early Childhood Research
  • International Journal of Early Childhood
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Studies
  • Maternal & Child Health Journal
  • International Journal of Early Years Education


Early Childhood Article Archive

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PBS Teachers | PBS Teachers . Early Childhood . Article Archive

www.pbs.org/teachers/earlychildhood/articles/archive.html -room Best Practices - General Instruction Strategies


Integrated Teaching Units
Find out how and why to incorporate thematic teaching units and long-term projects into your classroom curriculum.
The Importance of Dramatic Play
Learn more about the research behind dramatic play and how to set up effective sociodramatic play boxes in your classroom.
Teaching with the Brain in Mind
Gain an essential understanding of how the brain is structured and ways educators can approach learning objectives to best convey information to students in a brain-friendly manner.
The Internet and the Early Childhood Classroom
Integrate the Internet into your classroom with information on evaluating Web sites for classroom use, Internet safety, and teacher mediation and training.
Learning and Teaching in Preschool
Learn more about the preschool learning environment and what curriculum should be covered, including emergent literacy, math, and science.
Center Time in the Early Childhood Classroom: Basic Set-up
Explore portable or permanent learning centers in your classroom, including basic set-up, theme and subject based centers, and group dynamics.
Showcasing Strengths: Students with Learning Disabilities
Discover the hidden talents in your learning disabled students by focusing on what they can do instead of what they can't do.
Adapting the Curriculum to Meet the Needs of Diverse Learners
Learn more about differentiated instruction that provides learners with a variety of ways to process information and demonstrate what they have learned, in order to "match" the way in which each learner learns most effectively.
Behavioral Concerns within Inclusive Classrooms
Find effective strategies that can support teachers and their students who exhibit challenging behavior in the classroom.
Behavioral Concerns
Learn more about the Positive Behavior Support approach to helping children develop social and communication skills, while creating a positive environment for learning and growth.
Assessing Young Children
Implement student portfolios in your classroom to help assess children's growth on an ongoing basis, record authentic work samples, and use as a center piece for parent conferences.
Learning Modalities
Learn the difference between learning modalities and multiple intelligences, and how can you determine what the strongest learning styles are for each child in your classroom.
Antisocial Behavior in LD and ADHD students
Play a critical preventative role in your classroom by helping a child understand the cause of disruptive behaviors, establishing positive collaborations with the family and by knowing when to help the parent seek further professional help.

Classroom Best Practices - Subject Area Strategies

Arts & Literature

Emergent Writing: Developing emergent writing skills in the early childhood classroom
Find out why emergent writing is important to a child's cognitive development, and learn how to include meaningful emergent writing experiences in your curriculum.
Using Sign Language and Fingerspelling to Facilitate Early Literacy Skills
Use sign language and fingerspelling to offer a "hands on" beginning to literacy. Discover more about these fun and productive ways to actively engage young learners.
Language Immersion Programs: The Benefits of Learning in Two Languages
Learn more about the research behind Language Immersion programs in elementary schools, and what the benefits and drawbacks of these programs are for your students.
A Recipe for Motivating Creative Writers
Create an enthusiasm for writing in your first or second graders by offering meaningful opportunities to explore topics of interest to them.
Library Time
Maximize effective use of the library for your young learners from the first visit to the library to involved research projects.
International Literacy Day
Start the school year right by celebrating reading, writing, and literacy through fun ideas for your classroom.

Health & Fitness

Physically Active for Life
Find out why it's important for children to be physically active, and learn what parents look for in a physical education program when selecting a preschool for their children.
The Importance of Developing Fundamental Motor Skills: Learning How to Catch a Ball
Encourage physical activity and motor skill development in your students. Try one approach that starts with several steps in learning how to catch a ball, a beanbag, or a balloon.
Children and Physical Activity
Browse fun lessons that can be integrated throughout the curriculum to provide students with the movement and physical activity they need.

Science

Science in the Preschool Classroom
Read how one preschool science program is developing young scientists and how you can incorporate science into your early childhood classroom.

Social Studies

Happy Holidays: Tips for Choosing Celebrations in School
Read suggestions and references that may help you reflect on your own approach to holidays in the classroom and implement some new ideas in your learning environment.

Research and Standards

Guiding Young Children Toward Kindergarten: A Primer on Early Learning Standards
Focus on how parents and children view school readiness and how shared goals and common expectations can benefit young children as they enter school as eager, confident, and curious learners.
What Student Teachers Want: For Future Student Teachers
Follow the advice of former student teachers on what to know before you start your student teaching experience and what you should find out during the process.
What Student Teachers Want: For Supervising Teachers
Read advice from former student teachers on what your new student teacher needs to know and learn under your guidance.

Teaching with PBS Kids On-Air and Online resources

Arthur: The World's Favorite Aardvark
Discover the extensive resources for educators available from Arthur, including lesson plans, online games, and more than 100 episode-specific activities.
Between the Lions: Learn to read, watch TV!
Find out more about the research behind Between the Lions and find inventive ways to implement the program and Web site into your classroom.
Clifford: Taking Learning to New Heights
Learn more about the extensive resources available to help educators use the Clifford on-air program and companion Web site to enhance literacy, social, and emotional skills in the early childhood classroom.
Fly off on a learning adventure with Dragon Tales!
Find information on the learning goals of Dragon Tales and how you can use the on-air episodes and online companion content to engage early learners in your classroom.
Celebrate Language and Cultural Diversity with Maya & Miguel
Find out how to incorporate Maya & Miguel into your classroom with suggested viewing tips, lesson plans, offline activities, and exciting online games.
Postcards from Buster: Hit the Road with Buster!
Learn how to make the most of the Postcards from Buster series in your classroom to help your students appreciate cultural and geographic diversity and develop language skills.
Reading Rainbow: TV Good Enough to Read!
Discover the history and educational goals behind Reading Rainbow, plus get tips for using the on-air episodes and companion Web site in your classroom.
Bring the Learning Fun of Sesame Street into your Classroom
Learn more about the educational goals behind this multigenerational series and get ideas for viewing and using the program and Web site in your classroom to enhance your curriculum goals.

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Early Childhood and Parenting


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    Saturday, July 23, 2011

    Words of Inspiration and Motivation

    Bill Clinton Quotes
    “If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.”
    Bill Clinton quotes (American 42nd US President (1993-2001), b.1946)
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    “We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.”
    Bill Clinton quotes (American 42nd US President (1993-2001), b.1946)
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    “Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and per”
    Bill Clinton quotes (American 42nd US President (1993-2001), b.1946)

       "Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.”
    Bill Clinton quotes (American 42nd US President (1993-2001), b.1946)
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    Marcy Whitebook-Quote

    "We know that teachers are the key to good child care - and as long as teachers are undervalued, American children, too, will keep getting less than they deserve"(Whitebook).

    Article from Marcy Whitebook

    Marcy Whitebook. (1992, May 19). Child-Care Workers Deserve A Raise Well-Trained Employees Are Leaving The Field In Droves :[5* Edition]. St. Louis Post - Dispatch (pre-1997 Fulltext),p. 3B. Retrieved October 1, 2010, from ProQuest Central. (Document ID: 53059478).

    Passion Quotes from the Foundation of Early Childhood Studies:  Louise Derma-Sparks (Professor Emertius, Pacific  Oak College, CA)
    "I always wanted to be a teacher".  "My mother always told me, that  instead of wanting to play house, I would play school..."(Professor Emertius).
    "As I grew up, I continued to want to be a teacher, because I had a built in passion that was important to make a real contribution in the world"(Professor Emertius).                               

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    Tuesday, July 12, 2011

    Personal Childhood Web

         My name is Troyleena Ikea Pate, and I would like to take the time to give credit to a few of the many individuals who took the time love me, train me and raise me to the person that I am today. 
                                                      
                                                         Something Special to Talk About
    Kathleen Pate, who was my mom's mother loved me unconditional everyday of my life.  She was my heart, and I was granny's girl.  She helped my mom finish her education, by providing us with dependable loving care in my mom's absence.  She could cook like no other, and we never went hungary.  My grandma would sing to me, read to me, and she would share stories about her pass that only she knew.  My grandma died in January of 2010 and it was hard.  She was dropped at a nursing home and broke up and so she could not heal.  As, I think of her and all that she did to direct me, it brings both tears and smiles at the same time because her love was apparent.  Anyone who knew her, knew she was difficult, but they also knew she strived to be the best she could be.  I am proud to have had such a great grandma who put others before self.  Life has been hard, but I know that she gave me the tools to survive and that she would be proud that I have not given up.   Though she is not here, I feel her presence everyday, and I call out to her for help when I need it , and somehow God always answers.  There are days that I feel so alone, because when she was alive we had the greatest family gatherings. We would eat at everyone elses home, and by 8:00 p.m or so everyone would gather at her house for the feast of a lifetime.  Priceless memories that I have because she cared enough to lean a hand. 

    A Song that she use to sing to me was:  I'm my grandma's girl, I'm my grandma's girl, I am Troyleena Ikea Pate, from out of state, and......I'm.....my. g r a n d m a's...Girl.

    A favorite scripture that she use to resite is 23 Psalms

    The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
    The Psalms
    23

    The LORD Is My Shepherd
    A Psalm of David.
    1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
    2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
    he leadeth me beside the still waters. Rev. 7.17
    3 He restoreth my soul:
    he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
    4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
    I will fear no evil: for thou art with me;
    thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
    5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:
    thou anointest my head with oil;
    my cup runneth over.
    6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:
    and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.

    To Grandma:
    Grandma Kathleen you were remarkable, and though your time was up, your legacy lives on in your grands, great grands and great great grands.  I am proud of what you did for me, and I know that without Christ and you, I would not have made it.
     This is my grandmother Kathleen Pate, at my sister's college graduation in Texas.  She got on a plane for the first time and though she was not well, she flew the whole way there, and made the other passsengers laugh the whole time. I love her so much and she is greatly missed.
        

          Merle Edward Casey, my step-father (now remarried), was a great part of my life and my siblings.  Merle came into our life when I was five or six, and he treated us like his own flesh and blood.  He feed us, he watched us and he trained us.  He was always polite, even when we were disrespectful, and he never mistreated us.  He would get up early help us get dressed and take us to our bus stop. On thursday'' Merle would take us out and treat us to something special, and he would always manage to take us on vacation every summer, sometimes even twice.  Merle and my mother had a son and even after my brother was born, he still loved us all the same.  I remember when they split up, he told my sister and I "that since I am not here, you all need to be their for little Merle, because he needs you".   Merle to this day, offers and lends a hand to us, and he tells us that he loves us.  It is hard not having him around, but I feel blessed that eventhough he has moved on, that he has not forgotten us. I honor him on Father's Day because someone does not have to be biological, to be worthy or constant. He was as good to me as my father and in someways better.  His impact on my life reminds me that, love is forever and that people choose to separate but a select few still have the ability to still love children even from a distance.  Merle E. Casey was and is a wonderful father, and his connection with Christ, made my life worth living and meaningful. 
    Merle Casey
    To Merle Edward Casey, a great father, leader, and encourager.  You trained me up, and though I struggle, you still pray for me, and support as time permits and for that I am truly grateful and I Love You.


         Danette Lovejoy Casey, my mother, was a great influence on my life.  My mother was a young mother, and she was the first to graduate in her family, though my grandmother came from a very afluent family.  Determined to get off the system and make a way for us, she did so at the age of 22.  My mother brought her first car, that she called "betsy" and she sought out to get an apartment for my sister and I.  Sleeping on the floor, but content, we were so excited to be on our own with her, and it brought us closer.  We ate together, we went on a family outtings once a week together and she took the time to ask us how our day was and what we learned.  My mother never let us miss school and she always took us to our appointments.  We never had cavities, we always brushed and we were rarely sick thank God.  My mother went to work everyday, and she took us to church regular.  Though we did not have a perfect family, it was still a great example of life.  My mother loved us for who we were and not based on each others abilities.  My mother was my bestfriend, and though we have grown apart to some extent, one thing that I can say is that though she is far, her prays are near; and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt, that she prays for my family each and everyday.  Due to the loss of my baby brother, the late Merle Edward Casey II (8/2009) her son, and the death of Kathleen Pate(1/2010) her mother,  it has been hard on her and painful, but I understand and I try to do my share to show her that I am appreciative to whatever she can do, and when she can't I understand that too. 

    Danette CaseyTo Momma:  the late Merle E. Casey II, Love F.Pate and I all love you, and though we are going through and one has passed on, know that you are not a failure, but rather a success; for it is because of you that we learned never to give up, and to lean on the Lord, and you taught us through faith, he never fails. 

    A favorite scripture:  "No weapon formed against me shall prospere"(Book of Isaiah)

    Love  F. Pate(sister)
    Love Pate
    The late Merle E.Casey II (R.I.P) my brother 6'4 who died at the age of 22, from a blood clot.
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    Saturday, July 2, 2011

    I am single mom of four, and I am up at all hours of the night, whether it be potty breaks for the children, the children wake up hungry, scared, or the house needs cleaning, and I wonder is a mother's job ever done?  LOL
    I would love to hear from others who also like me hear the words MOMMY in their sleep. Don't get me wrong, I love being mother, but I think that father's sometimes forget that mother's single or not do deserve a break. I am blessed if I get four hours one day a week and that is rare.
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