Foundations of Early Childhood Education
Education 300
Spring 2015
Never doubt that a small group of concerned teachers can change the world, Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
With deference to Margaret Mead.
Course Topics
What it means to be an Early Childhood Educator Building Classroom Community Through Guidance
Observing and learning from Young Children Play and Learning
Historical and Philosophical Foundations. Special Needs Children and Differentiation
Theoretical and Developmental Foundations Technology and ECE
Developmentally and Culturally Appropriate Practice The Government, NCLB & Current Issues
Practical program applications Student Final Presentations and Resources
Pedagogy of Place, nature, and Ecology  
Supporting Resources

1. Who Are We - What it means to be an Early Childhood Educator
Code of Ethical Conduct - http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/PSETH05.pdf
Early Education Advocates http://earlyeducationadvocates.org/
National Association for the Education of Young Children - http://www.naeyc.org/
ERIC Clearinghouse ECAP Collaborative - http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/index.html
The Future of Children Foundation - http://www.futureofchildren.org/
Alliance for Childhood - http://www.allianceforchildhood.org/
General abuse reporting guidelines - http://teaching.monster.com/benefits/articles/1929-reporting-child-abuse-and-neglect-mandatory-reporting-facts
Student Collaborative Notes - Google Docs

2. Observing and learning from Young Children
Observing Children - http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/nqsplp/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/NQS_PLP_E-Newsletter_No39.pdf
Observation and Early Childhood Teaching - http://www.naeyc.org/files/yc/file/201103/OurProudHeritage_Online0311.pdf
Assessing Young Children Appropriately - http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/earlycld/ea500.htm

3. Historical and Philosophical Foundations
Link to 14 Influential Educators
Student located Sites:
Robert Owen - http://www.newlanark.org/index2.shtml
Pestallozi - http://www.economist.com/images/cities/zur/history/JohannPestalozzi.jpg
Froebel - http://www.froebelfoundation.org/
Froebel - http://www.froebel.com
Peabody House - http://www.concordma.com/magazine/junjuly99/peabody.html
Montessori - http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/montessori/method/method.html
Montessori - http://www.bambini-montessori.com/mon_prin.htm
Dewey - http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-dewey.htm
Piaget - http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/piaget.html

4. Theoretical and Developmental Foundations -
Brain and Learning
Caine & Caine Brain/Mind Learning Principles - http://www.cainelearning.com/RESEARCHFOUNDATIONS/Brain-Mind-Principles.html
How people Learn - http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6160
The Inner Life of Neurons -http://www.hms.harvard.edu/hmni/On_The_Brain/Volume04/Number2/SP95In.html
Practical Classroom Applications of Brain Research - http://www.brains.org/
Selected ERIC Abstracts on Brain-based Learning - http://www.ascd.org/educationnews/eric/brainabs.html
How can research on the brain inform education - http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/v03n02/brain.html

Piaget's Theory
Biography - http://www.unige.ch/piaget/biographies/biog.html
TIP, Piaget - http://tip.psychology.org/piaget.html
Cognitive Development - http://classweb.gmu.edu/awinsler/ordp/cogdev.html
Piaget Links - http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/cogsci.html#piaget

Vygotsky
Profile - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Vygotsky
Social Cultural Theory - http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_cult.html#vygotsky
Social Development Theory - http://tip.psychology.org/vygotsky.html

Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences
GLEF, Video Clips and interviewof Gardner discussing his theory - http://www.edutopia.org/multiple-intelligences-howard-gardner-video
Project Zero - http://www.pzweb.harvard.edu/
GLEF, The Key Learning Community - http://www.edutopia.org/key-learning-community
GLEF, TheKey to Learning - http://www.edutopia.org/key-to-learning-place-for-meaningful-academic-exploration
ERIC, Multiple Intelligences, Gardner's Theory - http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed410226.html
Thomas Armstrong, Theory of MI - http://www.thomasarmstrong.com/multiple_intelligences.htm
Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences Inventory - http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm#Multiple%20Intelligences%20Explained
Walter Mckenzie’s Multiple Intelligence pages - http://surfaquarium.com/MI/
Who Owns Intelligence by Howar Gardner - http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99feb/intel.htm
One Intelligence or Many - http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/paik.html
Indiana, Human Intelligence (see hot topics) - http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eintell/
Intelligence Theory - http://www.edwebproject.org/edref.mi.hist.html

Constructivism
TIP, Bruner and Constructivism - http://tip.psychology.org/bruner.html
Funderstanding, Constructivism - http://www.funderstanding.com/constructivism.cfm
The Courage to be Constructivist - http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_lead/199911/brooks.html
Classroom Compass - http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/v01n03/
Constructivism links - http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/constructivism.html
Constructivist Learning Theory - http://www.exploratorium.edu/IFI/resources/constructivistlearning.html
Constructivism in Teacher Education - http://www.eric.ed.gov:80/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/17/45/cd.pdf
Constructivism and Education - http://www.math.upatras.gr/%7Emboudour/articles/constr.html
Constructivism and Teaching - http://www.grout.demon.co.uk/Barbara/chreods.htm
Essays on Constructivism - http://www.towson.edu/csme/mctp/Essays.asp

Maslow
Abraham Maslow - http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/maslow.html
A Theory of Human Motivation - original paper - http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm
Maslow’s Theory applied to Education - http://web.cortland.edu/andersmd/maslow/homepage.html

5. Developmentally and Culturally Appropriate Practice -
NAEYC Position Statement - DAP: http://www.naeyc.org/about/positions/pdf/PSDAP98.PDF#xml
DAP Key Messages - http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/KeyMessages.pdf


ERIC, DAP What the Research Tells us - http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/1997/dunn97.html
NCREL - http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/instrctn/in5lk5.htm
Developmentally Appropriate and Culturally Responsive Education - http://www.nwrel.org/cfc/publications/DAP2.html
DAP in ECE - http://www.ed.psu.edu/k-12/edpgs/su96/ece/dap1.html
The implications of Culture in Developmental Norms - http://ericec.org/digests/e589.html

Beyond the DAP Guidelines: Emphasizing Culture over Development in a Hawaiian Kindergarten - http://convention.allacademic.com/aera2004/view_paper_info.html?pub_id=4173&part_id1=26205

Critique of DAP - http://www.illinoisloop.org/dap.html
http://www.leaonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15566935eed0202_4?journalCode=eed

6. Practical Program Applications -
ECE Models - Grid of Resource links

7. A Pedagogy of Place, Nature and Ecology -
Place Based Education Evaluation Cooperative - http://www.peecworks.org/index
The Promise of Place - http://www.promiseofplace.org/what_is_pbe
The Center for Place Based Education - http://www.antiochne.edu/anei/cpbe/

8.Building Classroom Community Through Guidance
F
orrest Gathercoal Homepage - http://www.dock.net/gathercoal/judicious_discipline.html
Alfie Kohn Articles - http://www.alfiekohn.org/articles.htm#null

9. Play and Learning
Why Children Need to Play - http://www.allianceforchildhood.org/sites/allianceforchildhood.org/files/file/Kindergarten_8-page_summary.pdf
The Nature of Children's play - http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed307967.html
Culture and Development in Children's Play - http://ruby.fgcu.edu/courses/ehyun/10041/culture_and_development_in.htm
The business of kids - http://www.nncc.org/Curriculum/better.play.html
The Worksheet Dilemma - http://www.earlychildhood.com/Articles/index.cfm?FuseAction=Article&A=134
The Importance of Play - http://www.babybag.com/articles/chldplay.htm
Reserach comparing Constructivist Play Environment vs Direct Instruction - http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/1997/schwei97.html

10. Special Needs Children -
Stages of Play Development in Delayed Chidlren - http://www.braintraining.com/PlayStages.htm
Oregon Dept. of Education: http://www.ode.state.or.us/search/results/?id=40

Don't Laugh At Me - http://www.esrnational.org/sp/or.htm
Don't Laugh at Me Registration:
http://inter.viewcentral.com/events/cust/register.asp?company_login_id=dontlaugh&pid=1&cbClass=1&lid=2

11. Technology and ECE -
Special Class Resources Page
Class WebQuest

12. The Government - NCLB, and Current Issues -
Special Class Resource Page

No Child Left Behind Readings:
US Department of Education - http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml?src=ln
US Gov. Desktop References - http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/account/nclbreference/index.html
NCLB Explained - http://web.wm.edu/ttac/articles/legal/nclb.htm
Changes Brought About by NCLB - http://www.thejournal.com/magazine/vault/articleprintversion.cfm?aid=4416
Promises Made by NCLB - http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=11047998&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6

Crtical Analysis
Rethinking Schools: NCLB - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/bushplan/index.shtml
National Center for Fair and Open Testing - http://www.fairtest.org/nattest/bushtest.html
Let Them Eat Tests - http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/16_04/Eat164.shtml
No Child Left - http://nochildleft.com/

Student Inspiration documents - No Child Left Behind

13. Parent, Family and Community Involvement -
NCREL Resources - http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/pa0cont.htm
NCREL Creating the School Climate - http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/famncomm/pa300.htm
Government Resources - http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FamInvolve/index.html
School-Family-Community Partnership - http://www.cesdp.nmhu.edu/toolkit/index.html
National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education - http://www.ncpie.org/
National Coalition for Parental INvolvement in Education - http://www.ncpie.org/DevelopingPartnerships/
The Impact of School Family Partnership (SFP) on Parents' Attitudes and Children Reading and Writing in First Grade
http://www.eric.ed.gov:80/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED468078&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED468078

Student Notes - Communicating, Meeting the needs

14. Student Presentations and Resources
Previous Presenters:
Stephanie McBride '04- Teaching English as a Second Language
Logan Okita 04- The Whole Language Debate
Katy Anholt 05- http://www.lclark.edu/~anholt/KatyAnholtPoetry/

Extra topic Materials
Preschool, Kindergarten and Primary Grades -

Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life, do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
Karl Kraus (1909)
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