Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight (with MyEducationLab)
This is a must-have book for any college course or program that wants its teachers to knowhowto intentionally set up engaging and appropriately challenging early childhood learning environments and to understand the evidence and reasons forwhythey’re doing it.  Covering each age group in early childhood-—and enhanced by colorful, unique photos and the online MyEducationLab with videos, accompanying questions, and exercises to deepen understanding—- this text is a powerful resource for today’s early childhood professionals.              Organized by chapters on centers, this text helps pre-service and practicing teachers learn to create, maintain, and enrich indoor and outdoor learning environments to support children’s development from birth to age 8.  A key part of each chapter is the teacher’s role in scaffolding learning in the center.  The book covers foundational information to keep in mind in classroom practice--developmental and learning theories, current research, curriculum standards and outcomes, children’s interests and their motivation to play, children’s diversity, assessment of learning, and evaluation of the environment.  It also contains a wealth of practical ideas and tips, lists of materials, and engaging vignettes and examples from the author’s vast classroom experience. Prepare with the Power of Classroom Practice. Register for MyEducationLab today at www.myeducationlab.com. MyEducationLab is an online solution that provides highly relevant assignments and resources designed to connect your textbook to real teaching situations. It is fully integrated with your textbook; wherever you see the MyEducationLab logo in the margins or elsewhere in the text, follow the simple instructions to access videos, strategies, cases, and artifacts associated with assignments, activities, and learning units on MyEducationLab. MyEducationLab provides you with opportunities to study and thoroughly understand your course content and also to practice the skills needed to become a successful classroom teacher: Prepare with the Power of Classroom Practice.•  Take Practice Tests for each chapter of your text.— Completion of each practice test generates a study plan that is unique to you.—  The study plan links to text excerpts, activities with feedback, and videos and other media that can help you master concepts covered in your text.• Complete Assignments and Activities to apply text content to real classroom situations.•  Authentic classroom video shows real teachers and students interacting, and helps prepare you for the classroom.•  Explore the Building Teaching Skills and Dispositions exercises to practice and strengthen the skills that are essential to teaching.•  Case studies offer real-life perspectives on common issues and challenges faced in the classroom.•  Authentic student and teacher classroom artifacts provide you with the actual types of materials encountered every day by teachers. To order this book WITH MyEducationLab, use either ISBN:ISBN-13: 9780136101031ISBN-10: 0136101038