Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education (3rd Edition)
Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood EducationThird EditionMary Renck Jalongo & Joan Packer Isenberg Exploring Your Roleoffers an integrated and innovative introduction to early childhood education, organized around NAEYC’s twelve essential teaching roles. Its content and pedagogy help students to make connections among teacher roles, theory, research, and practice.Exploring Your Roleis an interactive text that encourages students to function as reflective practitioners in response to case study material.  Features such as “Did You Know?” “Meet the Teachers,” “Ask the Experts,” and “One Child, Three Perspectives,” lead students in building personal connections with practice as they develop professional knowledge in working with families and educators.  To underscore students’ growing understanding of diverse learners, diversity icons alert readers to relevant sections. Key changes to this edition:Margin notes direct students to the Teacher Prep Website to analyze high-quality video clips, artifacts, and other resources (an access code card is included, providing full access to the site)A new Chapter 3 on diversity and equity issues, written by Beatrice S. FennimoreEach chapter’s learning outcomes are now linked to professional standards, including those from NAEYC, INTASC, and ACEINew and updated “Collaborating with Families” feature in each chapterExpanded content on ECE program typesNew standards-based lesson and unit plansCompanion Website for students features practice assessments written in PRAXIS-like format to prepare students for their licensure exams and professional practicaResources include an onlineInstructor’s ManualandTest Bank, an electronic test management system, WebCT and Blackboard, Power Point slides for instructors and note-taking slides for students, and a Companion Website.  To view the website that accompanies this text, please go to http://www.prenhall.com/jalongo.