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September 2007Table of Contents, July 2007

Vol. 62, No. 4

Early Childhood Educators as Learners: Engaging Approaches for Professional Development

10 Introduction
12

 Energize Your Professional Development by Connecting with a Purpose: Building Communities of Practice/Judy Harris Helm

                                     
18

Viewpoint. Moving Away from a Quick-Fix Mentality to Systematic Professional Development/Kay M. Albrecht and Bev Engel

                          
26

Engaging Professional Development Strategies

 
 
26

Time to Circle Up: Using Morning Meeting in Professional Development/Jodi Bornstein and Jennifer Bradley

28 Making Our Thinking Visible: Using Documentation for Professional Development/Amethyst Peaslee, Ilana Snyder, and Patricia B. Casey
30

What’s It Like? Making Meaning with Metaphors/Laurie R. Noe

32

Viewpoint. New Ways of Preparing High-quality Teachers/Tess Bennett

 
34

Early Childhood Educators as eLearners: Engaging Approaches to Teaching and Learning Online/Chip Donohue, Selena Fox, and Debra Torrence

 
42

Inclusion and Disability Awareness Training for Educators in the Kids Like You, Kids Like Me Program/Julie Mickel and Jayne Griffin

 
46

Challenges and Rewards: Developing an Entry-level Early Childhood Training Program/Joanna K. Hansen and Sara Gable

 
54

Resources for Early Childhood Educators as Learners

 

58

Of Primary Interest. Centering Your Classroom: Setting the Stage for Engaged Learners/Gayle M. Stuber

72

 The Reading Chair/Isabel Baker and Miriam Baker Schiffer

78

Augmentative and Alternative Communication in the Early Childhood Years/Mary Frances Hanline, Débora Nunes, and M. Brandy Worthy

83

First Grade Study Groups Deepen Math Learning/Marie W. Sloane

90

Promises to Practice: Learning a PROactive Approach to Ethical Dilemmas/Mary Elizabeth Ambery and Ruth K. Steinbrunner

97 “Teacher, Teacher, Tell Us about the Brain!” Sharing Decision Making about Curriculum in Preschool/Susan K. Verwys
101 Think Aloud! Increase Your Teaching Power/Jennifer Dorl
106 Teachers on Teaching. Reading the Pictures: A Missing Piece of the Literacy Puzzle/Chad Teachout and April Bright
108 Dinosaurios and Aventuras: Books in Spanish for the Young/Isabel Schon


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From our President.Developing Our Profession/Anne Mitchell

60

NAEYC Annual Conference & Expo

74

Professional Development. Revisiting the NAEYC Position Statement on Developmentally Appropriate Practice: Update/Carol Copple, Jerlean Daniel, and Heather Biggar Tomlinson

75

In Memoriam. Magda Gerber

75

NAEYC Business

75

Index of Advertisers

76

Observations and Reflections/Mark R. Ginsberg

112 New Books/Gail Perry


 

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