The Learning Center - TLC: Reference Resources

This best-selling standard reference resource offers up-to-date information on fiction and nonfiction picture books for children. Comprehensive and easy to use, it consists of a subject guide, a bibliographic guide, and title and illustrator indexes. A to Zoo is useful for both reader's advisory and collection building. The convenient indexes facilitate searches by title, author, and illustrator, as well as by subject, allowing quick responses to library user needs. With this latest updated volume, A to Zoo continues to provide librarians with a singular source for collection building, program development, and responding to patrons requests for picture books, from the classics to the latest publications.

This newly revised edition covers the basics of early education and care: providing safe, healthy, and appropriately stimulating learning environments; child development and developmentally appropriate practices and curricula in all domains (physical, cognitive, language, social-emotional, and creativity), positive guidance strategies, partnering with families, child assessment and program management, and professionalism.

Now in its tenth edition, this comprehensive and trusted professional resource helps librarians--and patrons and teachers--identify and use the best fiction and nonfiction books published for children in grades pre-K to six.

Presents the theory and research behind curriculums, helps teachers translate them into practice, and explains the five components of teaching preschool children effectively.

Early childhood educators around the world use this best seller to plan daily curriculum and classroom activities. The book contains 76 different themes ranging from Ants to Zoo Animals, presented in alphabetical order. The updated book sections for each theme include hundreds of new children's literature references with a special emphasis on multicultural selections.

This four-volume handbook discusses key historical and contemporary issues, research, theoretical perspectives, national policies, and practices in the field of Early Childhood Education.

All professions have their jargon, but the language of the education world is so impenetrable that it has become the stuff of internet jokes. This book translates and defines the terms and jargon unique to the K-12 world. What do classrooms look like when cooperative learning, experiential education, constructivism, block scheduling, or inclusion are being implemented? The Education Week Guide to K-12 Terminology will be a must-have reference for those new to the field, and will give veteran educators the language they need to explain terms to parents, school boards, and the outside world.

Lists requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels.