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Title: From Basketball to the Beatles: In Search of Compelling Early Childhood Curriculum by Ben Mardell ISBN: 0-325-00194-4 Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group Pub. Date: 12 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Teach what you love
Comment: I am a early childhood major so I decided to read this book to come up with new ideas on how to make teaching interesting to young students. Ben Mardell does a great job in writing this book and letting us experience the type of curriculum he, along with his students, discovered. Before reading this book, I was not sure on how to go about teaching young children lessons in life that will stick with them for a long time. I was also afraid seeming boring to them and not getting their attention. Mardell showed me that by incorporating in my curriculum the subjects that I love and the things they love at that age, the school year will benefit them not only at school, but at home. He also has them doing activities that relate to that part of the subject. He not only has them reading and listening, he has them role-playing, singing, dancing, and doing project both in school and on fieldtrips. He seems not only to be their teacher but most importantly, their friend.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this before your kids can!
Comment: Though this book is about creating meaningful pre-school curricula, readers should not think its creativity and thoughtfulness is limited to classroom prescriptions. It's a carefully crafted philosophy on how children learn and interact with each other and adults. I often think about the chapter on teaching kids about the Beatles, or about preparing kids for group activity as I interact with my child outside of a daycare setting. I gave copies of this book to my child's daycare center, and will evaluate future early childhood education efforts against the standard set by Mardell.
Rating: 5
Summary: Having fun with ideas
Comment: I thought this was a great book from the beginning to the ending. I like the way the author/teacher takes the reader through the year, with an introduction to the children and some of the problems they may be having at home. As a reader you become closely aquainted with each child and the themes he uses throughout the year. Getting to the main purpose of his book, Ben Mardell goes into detail with each of his themes. He dedicated an entire chapter for each theme and what kind of activities he uses with his children. As he goes through these themes and activities, he also remembers to incorporate the children with problems at home to the theme at hand, and what sort of reactions they have to their new environments. The themes he uses are so original and fun. He makes sure to use themes that not only the children will enjoy, but that he himself will enjoy presenting and working with. There are some things that he decides to do that some of the parents as well as some of the teachers disagree with(the dissecting of a frozen dead squirrel)that he does anyway, and in which the children learn a lot from. I personally enjoyed this book a lot, and found all of his ideas wonderful and so original!
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Title: Creative Experiences for Young Children by Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld ISBN: 032500367X Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Beginning Reading and Writing by Dorothy S. Strickland, Lesley Mandel Morrow ISBN: 0807739766 Publisher: Teachers College Pr Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Girl With the Brown Crayon by Vivian Gussin Paley ISBN: 0674354427 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Thinking Like a Teacher: Using Observational Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning by Samuel J. Meisels, Helen L. Harrington, Patricia McMahon, Margo L. Dichtelmiller, Judy R. Jablon ISBN: 0205331750 Publisher: Pearson Allyn & Bacon Pub. Date: 28 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $43.80 |
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Title: The Power of Portfolios: What Children Can Teach Us About Learning and Assessment by Elizabeth A. Hebert ISBN: 0787958719 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 14 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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