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Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood *Great*Links*
Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood *Great*Links*
Colleges and Universities for Early Childhood Education: University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, has an Early Childhood Education Program that leads to teacher licensure for birth (pre-kindergarten) through grade three. The program has approximately 120 majors and operates the Campus Children's Center. It is nationally ranked by the U.S. Department of Education as one of a handful of "exemplary" early childhood teacher education programs in the United States. East Tennesee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee, is developing a program of national significance. Their Center for Early Childhood Learning and Development is Reggio-inspired. Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, has a child development laboratory school in the Department of Human Development. They did the Great Duck Pond Project. Dr. Victoria Fu. Helen Gordon Child Development Center at Portland State University in Oregon makes attending here a rich experience. A glance at their courses shows they work at documentation and REALLY listening to the children. s University of New Hampshire Child Study and Development Center in Durham, NH, models project learning/emergent curriculum. National-Louis University's Early Childhood Department provides educational experiences that prepare individuals to become early childhood professionals who support and improve the quality of programs and services for young children, their families, and the communities in which they live. The Center for Early Childhood Leadership is there. They offer on line courses. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh PA has a Reggio -inspired program also and a beautiful facility in the Cyert Center for Early Education which serves as the child care center for the university. |
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| Links of Interest to Early Educators | |
| The Hanen Centre in Toronto, Canada, specializes in materials to help children with language delays and autism spectrum disorder. Their book It Takes Two to Talk applies to teaching and parenting all young children. Highly recommended. | |
| Washington Association for the Education of Young Children is the center of operations for our state. | |
| Reggio Children USA Office for Publications lists what you can get that is directly from the source; 1-800-424-4310. | |
| Early Childhood Research and Practice is the on-line journal of early childhood education. This is the first place to go for great articles to appear on your own computer screen, like the one below. | |
| You have to check out The Hairy Head Project by Barbara Gallick at the ECRP site above! | |
| A Sage, Elder, and Wise person, Sydney Gurewitz Clemens has a site worth visiting if you want to learn. | |
| Sylvia Chard's Projects Approach page at the University of Alberta, Canada, where you can see an examples of projects, take a class, or join the dialog with other teachers. | |
The
Merrill-Palmer Institute
has a comprehensive listing of print and video resources on Reggio Emilia
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| sodaplay ® delightful computer play for young children to explore. "We don't show children how to use it .... just go to the next play page and leave them to it ... they discover everything else and show each other ... their vocalising (.ie., non verbal ... just sounds... accompaniments are sometimes brilliant, and moving ...original ... expressing feelings of the thingy they are working with .... " | |
| The National Child Care Information Center is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance center that links parents, providers, policy-makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information. If you want to find out something about early education, this is the place to start. | |
| Five Reasons to Stop Saying Good Job is right here to reinforce what you already know about how fakey it is to praise, by Alfie Kohn. | |