Student Study Guide to Accompany Exploring Your Role: A Practitioner's Introduction to Early Childhood Education [Paperback]

Mary Renck Jalongo (Author), Joan P. Isenberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2003

This book frames content in a way that defines the “what, why, and how” of becoming an early childhood educator. It prepares readers for the variety of roles (advocate, facilitator, planner, mediator, etc.) they must assume in working with children, parents, colleagues, principals, administrators, and the community at large. Its innovative coverage focuses on helping readers fulfill these roles in a caring, competent, knowledgeable manner, through case studies and numerous opportunities for reflection. Organized around the twelve essential roles and responsibilities of effective early childhood educators as delineated by the NAEYC Guidelines for Preparation of Early Childhood Professionals (2000), coverage includes demographic changes in families, advances in psychology, political influences, cultural diversity, and issues of inclusion. For future teachers of children from birth to age 8.

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Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education

Third Edition

Mary Renck Jalongo & Joan Packer Isenberg

 

Exploring Your Role offers 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 Role is 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. Fennimore
• Each chapter’s learning outcomes are now linked to professional standards, including those from NAEYC, INTASC, and ACEI
• New and updated “Collaborating with Families” feature in each chapter
• Expanded content on ECE program types
• New standards-based lesson and unit plans
• Companion Website for students features practice assessments written in PRAXIS-like format to prepare students for their licensure exams and professional practica

Resources include an online Instructor’s Manual and Test 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. 

 

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Product Details

• Paperback: 194 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Merrill Prentice Hall; 2nd edition (June 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131138081
• ISBN-13: 978-0131138087
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,843,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not a fun textbook, October 1, 2011

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This review is from: Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

Maybe it was the class? Maybe it was the reading? But I did not really enjoy this textbook. Nevertheless if it's a required reading, get it here and sell it back! This book came in perfect condition and got me through my requried class, what more could you want? :)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great!, January 7, 2010

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This review is from: Exploring Your Role: An Introduction to Early Childhood Education (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

Out of all my books in college this is the easiest to reference. Nothing is too detailed, yet I get the right amount of information I need to plan my lesson or to do more research somewhere else.