Twelve Best Practices for Early Childhood Education: Integrating Reggio and Other Inspired Approaches
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In her new book, popular author Ann Lewin-Benham draws on her intimate knowledge and experience with the Reggio Approach to present 12 “best practices” inspired not only by Reggio, but also by play-based and Montessori approaches to early childhood education. These practices are demonstrated, one per chapter, with scenarios from classrooms, dialogues of children and teachers, and work samples showing the outcome of using each practice.
Used together, the 12 best practices offer a new framework for early education. Written in the accessible style that her readers appreciate, this book expands on Lewin-Benham’s earlier works by showing the foundations for teachers to practice the Reggio Approach in their own settings. It introduces several new techniques: fostering language skills through Meaningful Conversation, designing inspiring environments, switching from a scheduled to an Open Flow day, using materials to build brain networks and stimulate Significant Work, and much more.
This important resource also includes a self-assessment tool, EXCEL, to assist you in examining your practices and those of your school. All chapters include key points and questions to help readers think more deeply about the material presented. Ann Lewin-Benham founded and for 20 years directed the Capital Children’s Museum in Washington, DC, where she also founded and directed the Model Early Learning Center.
She is the author of Infants and Toddlers at Work : Using Reggio-Inspired Materials to Support Brain Development , Possible Schools: The Reggio Approach to Urban Education ,and Powerful Children: Understanding How to Teach and Learn Using the Reggio Approach. “I predict that you’ll place this book alongside those educational readings that you value most; and that, in the manner of a vade mecum, you will draw on it regularly for implementation, insight, and inspiration.
” —From the Foreword by Howard Gardner , Harvard Graduate School of Education “In this highly personal volume, Lewin-Benham offers joyful, grounded, and practical counsel to early childhood teachers. Building on an inspirational code of beliefs, the volume graphically portrays 12 ‘best practices’ that are sure to provoke as much thought as they are to evoke wise and insightful practice.
A totally delightful and thoroughly helpful contribution!” — Sharon Lynn Kagan , Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy and Co-Director, National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University “Once again, Ann Lewin-Benham has demonstrated the depth of her knowledge and understanding of the field of early childhood education and the sharp insights of one who accommodates the intersection of theory and practice; one who has created and supported Reggio-inspired early childhood programs that value children’s time and intelligence; and one who has repeatedly sounded the clarion call for the nation to give our young children the schools they deserve.
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- Höfundur: Ann Lewin-Benham
- Útgáfudagur: 05/2013
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- Format:ePub
- ISBN 13: 9780807771396
- Print ISBN: 9780807752326
- ISBN 10: 0807771392
Efnisyfirlit
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword: Ann Lewin-Benham’s Vade Mecum, by Howard Gardner
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Changing Practices
- The Book’s Content
- Breaching the Reggio/U.S. Divide
- 1. When Belief Drives Practice
- Cultural Context of Reggio Emilia
- Reggio’s Unique Beliefs and Features
- Correlations: Best Practices and the Reggio Approach
- The Structure Supporting Reggio Practices
- Conclusion: Using Reggio and Other Best Practices
- 2. Developing Self-Regulation
- Becoming Self-Regulated
- The Reggio Approach
- Montessori’s “Normalizing” Method
- A Scripted Kindergarten
- Scheduled Early Education
- The Model Early Learning Center’s Techniques
- Conclusion: Self-Regulation—The Basis for Learning
- 3. Using Documentation to Gain Parents’ Trust
- What Is Documentation?
- Documentation as a Magnet for Parents
- A Project Emerges
- Robust Parent Involvement
- Panels as Planning for Curriculum
- Conclusion: Documentation—A System for Listening
- 4. An Open Flow Day
- Essential Features of an Open Flow Day
- How Open Flow Looks
- Moving Toward Open Flow
- Conclusion: Differently Organized Days
- 5. The Environment Is the Curriculum
- When Design Fails to Support Children
- Exemplary Features of Reggio Classrooms
- Thinking About Design
- Developing an Aesthetic Sense
- Designing or Redesigning a Classroom
- Conclusion: A New Take on Environment
- 6. The Art of Meaning-Full Conversation
- Defining Conversation
- Holding Focused Conversations
- Conversation Punctuates a Project
- Techniques in the Conversation Tool Kit
- The Impact of Focused Conversation
- Conclusion: Conversing Toward Literacy
- 7. Intentional Teaching
- What Is Intention?
- Intention in Reggio Teachers
- Conclusion: The Teacher’s Roles in Action
- 8. Materials and Human Development
- The “Languages” of Materials
- Materials and Brain Development
- “Framing” and the Brain’s Attention Systems
- Triggering Visualization and Imagination
- Conclusion: The Romance of Materials
- 9. Materials and Relationships
- Why Materials Matter
- Finding Good Materials
- Asking Families to Help
- Materials and Cognition
- Conclusion: Finding Relationships
- 10. Documentation
- Walls as Curriculum
- Documentation of an Experience
- Walls That Encourage Mindful Activity
- Documentation at Work
- Using Documentation Reflectively
- Conclusion: Walls That Intrigue Parents
- 11. Assessing Children’s Progress
- Evaluation
- Assessment
- Authentic Assessment
- Roadblocks to Authentic Assessment
- Reconciling Authentic Assessment and Standardized Testing
- Effectiveness of Authentic Assessment
- Conclusion: “Proof” Is Not Attainable
- 12. Significant Project Work
- An MELC Story
- A Reggio Story
- The Contrast
- Conclusion: Bucking Cultural Imperatives
- 13. EXCEL
- Understanding the Acronym EXCEL
- Putting EXCEL to Work
- Using EXCEL to Rate Yourself
- Conclusion: Best Practices and Significant Work
- Glossary
- References
- Index
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