From Handprints to Hypotheses - Using the Project Approach with Toddlers and Twos

Todd Wanerman

Summary

This book is for educators and caregivers of children ages 1 to 3. It can also be used as projects approach curriculum. This book can be course adopted in early childhood teaching methods classes.The project approach has been written about extensively for preschool-aged children, but there is very little, if anything, written about using the project approach with toddlers and twos. This book fills that hole.In early education, there is growing emphasis on the importance of creativity in children’s lives, and educators are more aware of the importance that classrooms support children’s initiative and the unique ways they express it. This book investigates how early childhood professionals can develop projects that help scaffold very young children’s well-rounded learning.An index is included.The author has  deep knowledge of working with toddlers and twos—he has been teaching them for 20 years at a school where families and faculties have a passion for partnering with children in creative pursuits.

Available since: 01/18/2013.

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