Student Teaching: Early Childhood Practicum Guide [Paperback]

Jeanne M. Machado (Author), Helen Meyer Botnarescue (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1401848532 | ISBN-13: 978-1401848538 | Publication Date: May 19, 2004 | Edition: 5

This is a training guide for early childhood students placed in field training classrooms. It promotes student understanding and student teacher development of teaching competencies. Every effort is made to help the student put learned theory into classroom reality.

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The scenarios are interesting, especially with the emphasis on theories to support and direct the reader’s focus. This is a powerful tool for introducing the chapter and beginning discussion of the topics in the text.

This is an excellent text! The authors exemplify all that is philosophically important for future early childhood teachers.

About the Author

Jeanne M. Machado's experience in the early childhood education field has included full-time assignment as community college instructor and department chairperson. Her duties included supervision of early childhood education students at two on-campus laboratory child development centers at San Jose City College and Evergreen Valley College, as well as child centers in the local community. Her teaching responsibilities encompassed early childhood education, child development, and parenting courses. She received her MA from San Jose State University and her vocational community college life credential with coursework from the University of California at Berkeley. Her experience includes working as a teacher, director, and an early childhood education consultant in public early childhood programs, parent cooperative programs, and private early childhood centers. Ms. Machado is an active participant in several professional organizations that relate to the education and well-being of young children and their families. She is a past president of California Community College Early Childhood Educators and the Peninsula Chapter of the California Association for the Education of Young Children. Her authoring efforts with Dr. Helen Meyer-Botnarescue produced a 2007 text in sixth edition for student teachers entitled STUDENT TEACHING: EARLY CHILDHOOD PRACTICUM GUIDE. An additional text, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN EDUCATION, was co-authored with Romana Reynolds in 2006. Both are published by Thomson Delmar Learning. Ms. Machado consults with teachers and administrators and interacts with young children in classrooms in Cascade, Idaho and San Jose, California.

Helen C. Botnarescue, PhD is a Professor Emeritus at the California State University. She currently chairs the Retired Members Committee for ACEI, and Co-chairs the Retired Members of OMEP. She is a 3-time president of the California ACEI, and has served twice as a Region 10 representative to NAECTE. Helen is a regular contributor to several publications including Childhood Education, journal of the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI), The Activist, newsletter of ACEI, and Retirees Review, newsletter of ACEI.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning; 5 edition (May 19, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401848532
• ISBN-13: 978-1401848538
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An ABC Practicum Guide For Students and Teachers, April 24, 2000

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This review is from: Student Teaching: Early Childhood Practicum Guide (Paperback)

Threw out the chapters there are detailed teaching aspects. I have learned personal values, I planned activities and got to act them out and it taught me to teach and learn but also have fun. How to work with children with disabilities. It talks about the Laws in childhood. It helps us get the parents involved show them how to help there child with home visits. It covers Montessori, and Reggio Emillia and other teachers who have influenced teachers threw out the centuries.

I am a student in early childhood and this book has been a valuable tool. Threw out the chapters there are detailed teaching aspects. Chapter 2 Placement- First Days on the Teaching Team. This chapter helped me when I started my practicum. I knew to go and get familiar with the center and teacher so I good feel more at ease. I learned to take something to do with the children. I have learned personal values, I planned activities and got to act them out and it taught me to teach and learn but also have fun. I can set up a classroom, and put things in order to locality. I learned to plan weekly and monthly activity schedules and to plan them around the seasons and holidays. I learned why Erikson theory works and why we follow his stages of development. You will read about Maslow and Burton White. You will learn to listen to the children and parents and each other. It teaches you how to solve simple and complex problems. How to work with children with disabilities. It shows you how to observe and be observed. It talks about the Laws in childhood. The does and don'ts and passing the Licensing. It talks about quality programs and how to keep them that way. It helps us get the parents involved show them how to help there child with home visits. It covers Montessori, and Reggio Emillia and other teachers who have influenced teachers threw out the centuries. It talks about the teacher shortage and how we need to pull together and work hard to be who we want to be. Over this entire book is a wonderful tool to help you grow and start a wonderful career in Childhood profession. I recommend keeping this book a reference guide for future use.