~ GREAT EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION COURSE RESOURCES ~

Listed below are some great resources to use daily. Hope you find everything helpful.

~ Position Statements and Influential Practices~

~NAEYC. (2009). Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8.Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/dap

~NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on child abuse prevention.Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/ChildAbuseStand.pdf

~ NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on school readiness.Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/Readiness.pdf

~ NAEYC. (2009). Where we stand on responding to linguistic and cultural diversity. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/diversity.pdf

~ NAEYC. (2003). Early childhood curriculum, assessment, and program evaluation: Building an effective, accountable system in programs for children birth through age 8. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/pscape.pdf

~ NAEYC. (2009, April). Early childhood inclusion: A summary.Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.naeyc.org/files/naeyc/file/positions/DEC_NAEYC_ECSummary_A.pdf

~ Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010). Infant-toddler policy agenda.Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_pub_infanttodller

~ FPG Child Development Institute. (2006, September). Evidence-based practice empowers early childhood professionals and families. (FPG Snapshot, No. 33). Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~snapshots/snap33.pdf

~ Global Support for Children's Rights and Well-Being ~

~ Article: UNICEF (n.d.). Fact sheet: A summary of the rights under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Retrieved May 26, 2010, from http://www.unicef.org/crc/files/Rights_overview.pdf

~ Websites ~

 ~ World Forum Foundationhttp://worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wp/about-us

 ~ World Organization for Early Childhood Educationhttp://www.omep-usnc.org/
 ~ Association for Childhood Education Internationalhttp://acei.org/

~Selected Early Childhood Organizations~

~ National Association for the Education of Young Childrenhttp://www.naeyc.org/

~ The Division for Early Childhoodhttp://www.dec-sped.org/

~ Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Familieshttp://www.zerotothree.org/

~WESTEDhttp://www.wested.org/cs/we/print/docs/we/home.htm

~ Harvard Education Letterhttp://www.hepg.org/hel/topic/85

~ FPG Child Development Institutehttp://www.fpg.unc.edu/main/about.cfm

~ Administration for Children and Families Headstart's National Research Conferencehttp://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/hsrc/

~ HighScopehttp://www.highscope.org/

~ Children's Defense Fundhttp://www.childrensdefense.org/

~ Center for Child Care Workforcehttp://www.ccw.org/

~ Council for Exceptional Childrenhttp://www.cec.sped.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home

~ Institute for Women's Policy Researchhttp://www.iwpr.org/

~ National Center for Research on Early Childhood Educationhttp://www.ncrece.org/wordpress/

~ National Child Care Associationhttp://www.nccanet.org/

~ National Institute for Early Education Researchhttp://nieer.org/

~ Pre[K]Nowhttp://www.preknow.org/

~ Voices for America's Childrenhttp://www.voices.org/

~The Erikson Institutehttp://www.erikson.edu/

~ Professional Journals Available in the Walden Library ~

Tip: Use the A-to-Z e-journal list to search for specific journal titles. (Go to "How Do I...?", select "Tips for Specific Formats and Resources," and then "e-journals" to find this search interface.)

· YC Young Children

· Childhood

· Journal of Child & Family Studies

· Child Study Journal

· Multicultural Education

· Early Childhood Education Journal

· Journal of Early Childhood Research

· International Journal of Early Childhood

· Early Childhood Research Quarterly

· Developmental Psychology

· Social Studies

· Maternal & Child Health Journal

· International Journal of Early Years Education

WAIT ! THERE'S MORE, MORE, MORE !!!!!!

~ Books ~

~ The Children's Literature Lover's Book of List by: Joanna Sullivan, Ed. D.

~ Engaging young writers by: Matt Glover

~ Alternatives to Worksheets

~ Creative Resources for the Early Childhood Classroom by: Judy Herr and Yvonne Libby Larson

~ Effective Practices for Early Childhood Education by: Sue Bredkamp

~ INFLUENCIAL PEOPLE ~

~ Johann Pestalozzi                                              ~ Lyndon Johnson

~ Friedrich Froebel                                              ~ William Clinton

~ Maria Montessori                                             ~ Edward Zigler

~ Margaret McMillarn                                         ~ Sam Meisels

~ Jean Piaget                                                         ~ Virginia Buysee

~ Susan Bredekamp                                              ~ Marcy Whitebook

~ T. Berry Brazelton                                             ~ Stanley Greenspan

~ Marian Wright                                                   ~ Hillary Clinton

~ Art Rolnick                                                        ~ Lilan Katz

~ Sylvia Chard                                                      ~ Pamela Winton

                                                                                      
                                             ~ Ann Turnbull

~Web Links~

~ http://www.earlychildhoodnews.com

~ http://www.edweek.org

~ http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/instructor

~ http://www.essentiallearningproducts.com/lesson-plans-and-activities

~ http://www.techlearning.com/index

~ Quotes To Live By ~

~ I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." -- Christopher Reeve

~ Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny." -- Frank Outlaw

~If a seed of a lettuce will not grow, we do not blame the lettuce. Instead, the fault lies with us for not having nourished the seed properly." - Buddhist proverb

~The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers rather than to fill it with the accumulation of others." -- Tyron Edwards

~Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answ ers." --Josef Albers

~ Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation." -- John F. Kennedy

~ Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners." --Ken Blanchard

~ If you want to live more, you must master the art of appreciating the little everyday blessings of life. This is not altogether a golden world but there are countless gleams of gold to be discovered in it." --Henry Alfred Porter

~Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve." -- Mary Kay Ash

~Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." -- John Gardner
   
~ I consider a day's teaching wasted if we do not all have one hearty laugh." He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence." -- Gilbert Highet

~ To ensure that your work is also a play, I recommend that you develop a personal mission statement. This will help you find what it is to enjoy so much that you lose track of time when you're doing it." -- Ken Blanchard

~ It is not what is poured into a student that counts but what is planted." -Linda Conway

~ The greatest sign of a success for a teacher...is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist." -- Maria Montessori

~ There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything." --Maria Montessori

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction." -- Malcom Gladwell

~ Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything." -- Mary Hemingway

	~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ YOU CAN MAKE IT !! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~ Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire." --William Butler Yeats

~ No one but us ourselves-no one can and no one way. We ourselves must walk the path, teachers merely show the way." -- Nancy Wilson Ross

~One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child." -- Carl Jung

~Every time you wake up and ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?," remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it takes a part of your life with it."--Indian proverb

~ A hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in the bank...but the world may be a better place because I made a difference in the life of a child." -- Forest Witcraft