Early Childhood Curriculum: A Creative Play Model

by Jan Allen and Carol E. Catron

Book Overview

"Ages birth to 5. "This comprehensive guide provides information on planning programs with a play-based, developmental curriculum for children from birth to five years of age and covers basic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0130968544
• ISBN13: 9780130968548
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent For The Developmentally Focused Teacher

The key to play-based curriclums is to realize that you teach children developmentally, not acadmically like with direction instruction/teacher-directed teaching. It's a different, more liberating approach that most veteran teachers and principals may find disorienting. Catron tackles early childhood curriculum from the get-go from a play perspective. the concepts of orchestrating play, realizing it occurs on a continuum, and realizing that play is the hallway to seeing a child's Zone of Proximal development appear in every chapter. I would highly suggest it as an alternative book if you cannot get PLAY AT THE CENTER OF THE CURRICULUM.