Product Description: Students save money when purchasing bundled products. This bundle contains DEVELOPMENTALLY APPROPRIATE PRACTICE: CURRICULUM AND DEVELOPMENT IN EARLY EDUCATION, 6th Edition and 6 month access to MindTap Education. With a single login for MindTap, you can connect with your instructor, organize coursework, and have access to a range of study tools, including e-book and apps all in one place! Manage your time and workload without the hassle of heavy books: the MindTap Reader keeps all your notes together, lets you print the material, and will even read text out loud...read more

This practical book is an indispensable guide for home-school-community collaborations. It meets the needs of current and practicing teachers, as well as administrators, who are trying to create effective partnerships with families. An overview of modern families and their complex roles sensitizes teachers to the diversity and needs of families they will encounter. The book also fully discusses both the benefits of creating productive partnerships and the barriers that teachers must overcome. Abundant examples clarify the book's practical and effective communication strategies. Current developments in the field of early childhood education are emphasized, including legislative mandates in education, professional standards of the field, and strategies for working with families of students with diverse learning needs.

Product Description: Home, School and Community Relations Package (Professional Enhancement)

Product Description: Home, School, and Community Relations PET

Product Description: Book by Gestwicki, Carol

Product Description: New fourth edition! Here's updated coverage of this best-selling comprehensive guide for working with families in early childhood education. Early childhood teachers will appreciate this combination of theory and practice. Case studies and actual program descriptions help you put the book's guidance to use in any teaching situation and with diverse family groups...read more

Product Description: Home, School, Community Relations supports pre-service and in-service teacher development of skills, techniques and attitudes needed to form successful collaboration with families. The text recognizes and addresses issues of diversity of contemporary families and of settings in which teachers work...read more

Product Description: "Authentic Childhood: Experiencing Reggio Emilia in the Classroom" introduces readers to the principles of the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education. Developed at the preschools and infant-toddlers center in Reggio Emilia, Italy, this program has received international attention...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is designed to be the ideal motivational tool for beginning teachers entering the field of early childhood education. The most comprehensive and challenging text available, Essentials of Early Education encourages students to be active participants in the decision making process of becoming early childhood teachers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This updated edition promotes the philosophy that teachers work as partners with parents, and introduces a variety of techniques for establishing effective communication and parent involvement. It addresses the complex diversity of families and teaching situations that exist, sensitizing readers to the pressing needs of today's families and to the importance of involving them in the educational institution that cares for their children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)