Reflecting Children's Lives ─ A Handbook for Planning Your Child-Centered Curriculum

Make The Complex Task Of creating a child-centered curriculum easier with the practical guidelines and ideas in this updated and expanded handbook. Learn how to sharpen your observation and documentation skills, set up your space, and transform your teaching to reflect children's interests and needs. Insightful classroom stories, assessment tools, checklists, comparative charts, and activities encourage new approaches and self-reflection as you plan your curriculum and put it into practice. Addressing new standards in early education, two new chapters focus on teaching academics in a meaningful way and guiding children as they play and learn. Reflecting Children's Lives is your work in progressuuse it to record the development of your own thinking and practice.

Deb Curtis has more than thirty years of experience in the early childhood field. She has designed and taught college-level classes, worked side by side with classroom teachers, produced professional development videos, and coauthored seven Redleaf Press books. She is a regular writer for Child Care Information Exchange and contributor to other publications. Deb travels extensively across North America, Australia, and New Zealand to teach and to consult with early childhood programs.
Margie Carter has more than thirty years of experience in the early childhood field. She has designed and taught college-level classes, worked side by side with classroom teachers, produced professional development videos, and coauthored seven Redleaf Press books. She is a regular writer for Child Care Information Exchange and contributor to other publications. Margie travels extensively across North America, Australia, and New Zealand to teach and to consult with early childhood programs.