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Early Childhood Education
Early Childhood Education
Introduction to Early Childhood Education
Author(s): Gayle Julian, Brenda Boyd Brown, Ph.D., Angela Blums, Ph.D., Christine Moon, M.S., Jennifer Karshna, Ph.D., Ardene Niemer, M.Ed., Ninderjit Kaur Gill, Holly Lanoue, M.Ed.
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2025
Description: Introduction to Early Childhood Education is designed for ECED 105, one of the initial courses in the ECE Initial Certificate program in Washington State. This book serves as an essential guide, exploring the principles, practices, and foundational knowledge of early childhood education.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Communication Skills in Early Childhood Education
Author(s): Lisa Palmer
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2024
Description: This open textbook supports the learning outcomes of SAIT’s COMN200 curriculum as they relate to communications for academic and professional purposes for early childhood educators.
Formats: Presbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML
Early Childhood Education: Nature and Outdoor Play
Author(s): Taylor Hansen
Editor(s): Randi Cummings
Licence: CC BY-NC
Year: 2024
Description: This resource is intended to be an interactive support for the Mount Saint Vincent University course Early Childhood Education: Nature and Outdoor Play. It aims to support a deeper understanding of the nuances among human’s relationships with nature and the outdoors and how this impacts pedagogy and practice in early childhood. It provides content specific to Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia), with consideration of decolonization and Indigenous informed perspectives of outdoor learning in early childhood environments.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: 8 H5P activities
Fanshawe College Early Childhood Education Field Practicum HUB
Author(s): Kim Woods
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2024
Description: Welcome to the ECE Field Practicum Hub. We have created this Open Education Resource to support Students, Community Partners, and ECE Faculty through the ECE Field Practicum Experience.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, EPUB
Includes: 1 H5P activities
Fundamentals of Early Childhood Education in Nova Scotia
Author(s): Mathew Sampson, Moashella Shortte
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2024
Description: This NSCC created open textbook provides an overview of the historical, societal, and theoretical origins of early childhood education with Nova Scotia specific content.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Health, Safety, and Nutrition in Early Childhood Education
Author(s): Erin Vasishtah, Isabella Sebastiani
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2024
Description: This book reviews health, safety, and nutrition practices for early learning educators in licensed childcare centers, family home environments, ECEAP, and Head Start programs. These practices are informed by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families and follows the laws of the Washington Administrative Code Chapter 110-300.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Safety, Health and Nutrition in Early Childhood Education
Author(s): Jennifer Paris
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2025
Description: Early childhood is a critical time in development. Many outcomes, both positive and negative, have their beginnings in these years. It is vital that children’s health and safety be protected. High-quality early care and education programs can play a valuable role in improving outcomesfor children.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Includes: 32 H5P activities
Building and Supporting Professional Relationships in Early Childhood Education
Author(s): Jennifer Paris, Kristin Beeve, Clint Springer
Editor(s): Alexa Johnson
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2022
Description: Welcome to learning about how to effectively plan curriculum for young children. This textbook will address:
- Developing curriculum through the planning cycle
- Theories that inform what we know about how children learn and the best ways for teachers to support learning
- The three components of developmentally appropriate practice
- Importance and value of play and intentional teaching
- Different models of curriculum
- Process of lesson planning (documenting planned experiences for children)
- Physical, temporal, and social environments that set the stage for children’s learning
- Appropriate guidance techniques to support children’s behaviors as the self-regulation abilities mature.
- Planning for preschool-aged children in specific domains including
- Physical development
- Language and literacy
- Math
- Science
- Creative (the visual and performing arts)
- Diversity (social science and history)
- Health and safety
- How curriculum planning for infants and toddlers is different from planning for older children
- Supporting school-aged children’s learning and development in out-of-school time through curriculum planning
- Making children’s learning visible through documentation and assessment
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB. PDF
Safety, Health and Nutrition in Early Childhood Education
Author(s): Kelly McKown
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2022
Description: As source content for this book was compiled from hundreds of sources, terminology doesn’t always match up, even after efforts were made to provide consistency across the text.
You may notice there are several ways programs that provide care and education for young children are referred to in this book. In general, these all refer to programs in which children are cared for in groups by non-family members and are used interchangeably.
- Early care and education programs
- Early childhood education programs
- Child care centers or child care programs
- Out-of-home care
- And at times, just programs or centers
The adults that care for children in these programs may be referred to as:
- Early childhood educators or professionals
- Teachers
- Caregivers
- Staff (although this term is often used when including other employees that may work in an early childhood education program outside of the classroom).
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: 35 H5P activities
INTRODUCTION TO CAREERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Author(s): Gloria San Jose Daims
Editor(s): Gloria San Jose Daims
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2021
Description: This book focuses on the exploration of educational and career paths in the field of child development and early childhood care and education.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Leadership in Early Care and Education
Author(s): Dr. Tammy Marino, Dr. Maidie Rosengarden, Dr. Sally Gunyon, Taya Noland
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description: Welcome to Leadership in Early Care and Education! We hope you find this text helpful, thought provoking, and affirming. We created this text to support learning in a couple of different. This text can be used from start to finish, or as modules that you (the instructor or the student) select based on your learning outcomes.
We created this text with these principles in mind:
- Anyone can be a leader at any time. Leadership is not title specific and the field of Early Care and Education needs leaders from diverse background, experiences, and expertise.
- Leadership has an inherent set of responsibilities and leaders need to understand what those are and how to navigate them.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important topics and leadership should be grounded in them.
- Reflection is a key part of professional practice and should be encouraged and supported at all levels.
- It is important to represent a variety of contexts, individuals and scenarios.
- White space is important. How we interact with learning materials is important. We hope you will find our design effective.
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
These modules were designed to empower leaders at all levels and in any educational context. We realize that is a lofty goal and we felt it was important to aspire to ensure that all leaders could see themselves in the scenarios and strategies we share. We have been in leadership roles and know how challenging and complex leadership in education can be.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links), Common Cartridge (LTI Links)
Leadership in Early Care and Education
Author(s): Tammy Marino, Maidie Rosengarden, Sally Gunyon, Taya Noland
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description: Welcome to Leadership in Early Care and Education! We hope you find this text helpful, thought provoking, and affirming. We created this text to support learning in a couple of different. This text can be used from start to finish, or as modules that you (the instructor or the student) select based on your learning outcomes.
We created this text with these principles in mind:
- Anyone can be a leader at any time. Leadership is not title specific and the field of Early Care and Education needs leaders from diverse background, experiences, and expertise.
- Leadership has an inherent set of responsibilities and leaders need to understand what those are and how to navigate them.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important topics and leadership should be grounded in them.
- Reflection is a key part of professional practice and should be encouraged and supported at all levels.
- It is important to represent a variety of contexts, individuals and scenarios.
- White space is important. How we interact with learning materials is important. We hope you will find our design effective.
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
These modules were designed to empower leaders at all levels and in any educational context. We realize that is a lofty goal and we felt it was important to aspire to ensure that all leaders could see themselves in the scenarios and strategies we share. We have been in leadership roles and know how challenging and complex leadership in education can be.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Comparing Early Education and Care Programs and Policies Globally
Author(s): Margaret Boyd, Susan Eliason
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2018
Description: This book is used in a cross referenced social work and childhood studies course that The course increases awareness that Early Childhood Education and Care is locally and globally is in crisis and critical for the health and well-being of children and society. The course provides opportunities to learn from international researchers, scholars, and practitioners for the purpose of comparing practices observed in MA. Topics include but are not limited to: Methods for effective advocacy; Critical examination of local policies and practices that may negatively affecting children and the early childhood workforce; Participation in data collection or analysis from the ECEC workforce in MA; and Opportunities to advocate for changes.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
ECE Outdoor Play Resource Guide
Author(s): Erin Cameron, Dawn Danko, NSCC
Licence: CC BY-SA
Year: 2023
Description: This resource is a compilation of current literature that captures the importance and benefits of outdoor, nature-based play in early childhood education programming, and highlights the role of risky play in children’s development.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Includes: 5 H5P activities
Holistic Care and Wellness in Early Years Settings
Author(s): Barbara Jackson, Sheryl Third
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description: Holistic Care and Wellness in Early Years Settings provides emerging early years educators with an opportunity to examine local legislation and recommendations regarding health, nutrition, and safety for early years settings while considering ways to promote wellness and reduce barriers for children, families, colleagues, and communities. Emerging educators are introduced to resources to support holistic wellness and care for self and others.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 20 H5P activities
Methods of Teaching Early Literacy
Author(s): Nandita Gurjar, Sohyun Meacham, Constance Beecher
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2023
Description: Theories, teaching strategies, and instructional materials pertinent to teaching reading and writing in grades PK-3, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as integration across content areas while addressing diversity and inclusion.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links), Common Cartridge (LTI Links)
Includes: 40 H5P activities
Music and the Child
Author(s): Natalie Sarrazin
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2016
Description: Children are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children’s identity and heritage, teaches them to belong to a culture, and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors, childcare workers, or students looking forward to a career working with children, we should continuously search for ways to tap into children’s natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing, moving and experimenting with instruments. But how, you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I’m working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps, how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts?
This book explores a holistic, artistic, and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music, harnessing the processes that underlie music learning, and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children’s lives through play, games, creativity, and movement. Additionally, the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child, i.e., socially, emotionally, physically, cognitively, and linguistically.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, Pressbooks XML
Reflective Practice in Early Years Education
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description: This resource will provide a context that will allow the reader to consider their obligation to reflect from their own perspective and will explore how to create a practice that best suits their professional setting. This book will bring together in one place the history, the values, the skills and disposition required to be a reflective practitioner. It is a textbook with elements of a workbook, embedded are opportunities to watch, to think, to write, and to listen allowing the reader to become a purposeful and intentional reflective practitioner.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 16 H5P activities
The ELC: An Early Childhood Learning Community at Work
Author(s): Heather Bridge, Lorraine Melita, Patricia Roiger
Licence: CC BY-NC
Year: 2020
Description:
The ELC professional development model was designed to improve the quality of teacher candidates’ Practicum field placements and align teaching in field placements with Learning Standards used in the teacher education program.
Teams of four educators from varied settings worked in a Practicum placement setting for one semester to improve their teaching and align it with Learning Standards. An action research approach improved teaching challenges teams faced. Research articles were read to improve teams’ teaching challenges by implementing one agreed strategy. Teams video-recorded, assessed, and reflected on the impact of the strategy on their teaching, on teacher candidates’ learning and on children’s learning.
This text compiles six case studies from this model to illustrate how teaching challenges were improved. Appropriate for practiced educators as well as educators in training, this text provides a real world look into applying Learning Standards in early childhood classrooms.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, Pressbooks XML
The Whole Child: Development in the Early Years
Author(s): Deirdre Budzyna, Doris Buckley
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description: The Whole Child is a textbook for Child Psychology or Child Growth and Development that is both comprehensive and concise. Students do not need a lengthy volume to digest, but they do need a strong understanding of how a young child develops. Only with this understanding can developmentally appropriate practice emerge in the classroom and in other places that are loving and caring spaces for young children. With the rising cost of textbooks, this textbook is a resource for instructors looking to find quality, accessible materials for our students.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, XHTML
Includes: 2 H5P activities
Why play works
Author(s): Marilyn Fleer, Kelly-Ann Allen, Anne Clerc-Georgy, Leigh Disney, Liang Li, Lara McKinley, Gloria Quinones, Prabhat Rai, Janet Scull, Anne Suryani
Licence: CC BY-NC
Year: 2024
Description: This textbook focuses on play and learning through Fleer’s Conceptual PlayWorld. This evidence informed model helps teachers to plan innovative practices relevant for a range of discipline concepts. The teachers and children after reading/hearing a children’s book or nursery rhyme or fairytale jump into the story as characters from the book/story, go on adventures, meet challenges that they solve and return to the real world enriched, and excited to go back in for another adventure (potentially bringing with them things they have learned to enrich their play).
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, WordPress XML
Care and Development of Infants and Toddlers
Author(s): May MacKenzie, Barbie McCuaig, Jackie Lee
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description:
The Care and Development of Infants and Toddlers is a new open textbook created by remixing and adapting chapters from multiple open textbooks and adding new resources specific to early childhood work in Nova Scotia. It is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license.
- See the Versioning History chapter for a complete mapping plan for the creation of this new open textbook.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Includes: 1 H5P activities
ECE 142: Health, Safety and Nutrition. Second Edition
Author(s): Carrie Flegel
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2024
Description: Early childhood is a critical time in development. Many outcomes, both positive and negative, have their beginnings in these years. It is vital that children’s health and safety be protected. High-quality early care and education programs can play a valuable role in improving outcomesfor children.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 43 H5P activities
ECE Nature and Outdoor Play
Author(s): Taylor Hansen, NSCC
Editor(s): Randi Cummings
Licence: CC BY-NC
Description: This resource aims to support a deeper understanding of the nuances among human’s relationships with nature and the outdoors and how this impacts pedagogy and practice in early childhood. It provides content specific to Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia), with consideration of decolonization and Indigenous informed perspectives of outdoor learning in early childhood environments.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, WordPress XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Includes: 10 H5P activities
ECE: Diverse and Inclusive Practices in Nova Scotia
Author(s): Justin West, Matthew Sampson, Moashella Shortte
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2022
Description: Diverse and inclusive practices is an ongoing process of recognizing and valuing the perspective of individual learners in all learning environments. Diverse and inclusive practices are not a set of ways to fix what or who doesn’t fit. It is not a reaction to different types of people. It is instead a conscious effort, making the space we share accessible to and representative of all. We cannot know what everyone will need to feel they belong, but we can share our diversity with pride and make space for conversations and actions to expand further. This open textbook is a guide to understanding how to support meaningful participation, make space for people and create engaging and welcoming learning environments.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, WordPress XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Includes: 6 H5P activities
Fanshawe College Child Development Practitioner Practicum HUB
Author(s): Sheryl Third
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2024
Description: This Open resource is where you will find everything you need to complete the six placements required along with some additional resource material that will support you in your journey to completing your apprenticeship training.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Fanshawe College ECL Field Experience Learning Community Resource
Author(s): Mary Mitches
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2024
Description: Welcome to the ECL Field Experience Learning Community Resource! This OER is a field practicum hub for students, Agency Mentors, Early Years Agencies, and Fanshawe College Faculty.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 3 H5P activities
Play-based teaching approaches
Author(s): Professor Andrea Nolan, Dr Natalie Robertson, Naomi David, Kat Cain, Professor Louise Paatch, Associate Professor Liz Rouse, Dr Virginia Kinnear, Associate Professor Anne-Marie Morrissey, Dr Deb Moore
Editor(s): Naomi David, Kat Cain, Professor Andrea Nolan, Dr Natalie Robertson, Sarah Fennelly, Christian Bass, Jeshmine Bajracharya
Licence: CC BY-NC
Description: This interactive textbook offers a grounding in play-based learning and shares authentic assessment potentials in play. The text encourages the implementation of play-based approaches in early childhood settings and primary school. This media-rich learning resource is designed to guide educators in their play-based teaching journey by linking theory to practice.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML
Includes: 15 H5P activities
Preschool Methods
Author(s): Tanya Dalton
Licence: CC BY-SA
Year: 2022
Description: Preschool Methods was put together to enhance students knowledge around developmental domains for children 3-5 years of age while highlighting Capable, Confident, and Curious: Nova Scotia’s Early Learning Curriculum Framework.
We as early childhood educators are children’s guides while they develop, explore and make sense of the world around them. Through play preschoolers develop life skills that will transfer and scaffold their learning in all aspects of development for the rest of their lives.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Children’s Thinking and Learning
Author(s): Kathleen Peets
Licence: CC BY-NC
Year: 2024
Description:
The text is separated into eight chapters on the following topics: Introduction, Theory, Attention, Conceptual, Memory, Problem-Solving, Social Cognition and Models of Early Learning.
Each chapter covers one week’s worth of content but is supplemented by an additional reading. That way, my voice as an author is not always dominant, and you, as students, can engage with other voices from scholars’ writings and verbal teachings. More details on how the book works in conjunction with other pieces of the course are below.
Each chapter is structured the same way so that you can acclimate to what learning activities are expected each week. This structure will also help you complete tasks embedded into your readings, or done in preparation for class or seminar.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: 22 H5P activities
Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) for the Preschool Environment
Author(s): Joan Hayden, Laura Hutton, Nova Scotia Community College
Licence: CC BY-NC
Year: 2023
Description:
What are Developmentally Appropriate Practices (DAP) and how do they pertain to me, my classroom and the students under my care? The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the premier professional organization of early childhood educators. Its position statement on developmentally appropriate practice (DAP) provides the following definition:
NAEYC defines “developmentally appropriate practice” as methods that promote each child’s optimal development and learning through a strengths-based, play-based approach to joyful, engaged learning. Educators implement developmentally appropriate practice by recognizing the multiple assets all young children bring to the early learning program as unique individuals and as members of families and communities. Building on each child’s strengths—and taking care to not harm any aspect of each child’s physical, cognitive, social, or emotional wellbeing—educators design and implement learning environments to help all children achieve their full potential across all domains of development and across all content areas. Developmentally appropriate practice recognizes and supports each individual as a valued member of the learning community. As a result, to be developmentally appropriate, practices must also be culturally, linguistically, and ability appropriate for each child. (NAEYC, 2020a, p. 5)
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Early Childhood Literacy
Author(s): Christine Pegorraro Schull, Leslie La Croix, Sara E. Miller, Kimberly Sanders Austin, Julie K. Kidd
Editor(s): Melanie Medina
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2021
Description: This textbook, Early Childhood Literacy: Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers Birth-Age 5, outlines the connection between different areas of language and literacy and describes strategies for supporting development and promoting instruction. Early literacy includes reading, writing, and language development. Writing includes any early writing attempts and pre-writing behaviors just as reading includes any early reading attempts and recognition of symbols and sounds. Language also includes listening and speaking (oral language) and the use of gestures and signs to communicate. The term oral language is commonly used to describe early language development separately from reading and writing. This text assumes oral language is a component of language and embraces the broader term to underscore the communication practices outside of listening and speaking. For example, some children use sign language or a picture board. For these reasons, the textbook will focus on language development in its totality, including oral language. This textbook is focused on birth to age 5 because early literacy development is crucial for future learning and development.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
ECE Advocacy
Author(s): Sally Gunyon
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description: Welcome to Leadership in Early Care and Education – Advocacy Module! We hope you find this text helpful, thought provoking, and affirming. We created this text to support learning in a couple of different. This text can be used from start to finish, or as modules that you (the instructor or the student) select based on your learning outcomes.
We created this text with these principles in mind:
- Anyone can be a leader at any time. Leadership is not title specific and the field of Early Care and Education needs leaders from diverse background, experiences, and expertise.
- Leadership has an inherent set of responsibilities and leaders need to understand what those are and how to navigate them.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important topics and leadership should be grounded in them.
- Reflection is a key part of professional practice and should be encouraged and supported at all levels.
- It is important to represent a variety of contexts, individuals and scenarios.
- White space is important. How we interact with learning materials is important. We hope you will find our design effective.
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
These modules were designed to empower leaders at all levels and in any educational context. We realize that is a lofty goal and we felt it was important to aspire to ensure that all leaders could see themselves in the scenarios and strategies we share. We have been in leadership roles and know how challenging and complex leadership in education can be.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, WordPress XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links), Common Cartridge (LTI Links)
ECE Communication
Author(s): Dr. Tammy Marino
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description:
Welcome to Leadership in Early Care and Education! We hope you find this text helpful, thought provoking, and affirming. We created this text to support learning in a couple of different. This text can be used from start to finish, or as modules that you (the instructor or the student) select based on your learning outcomes.
We created this text with these principles in mind:
- Anyone can be a leader at any time. Leadership is not title specific and the field of Early Care and Education needs leaders from diverse background, experiences, and expertise.
- Leadership has an inherent set of responsibilities and leaders need to understand what those are and how to navigate them.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important topics and leadership should be grounded in them.
- Reflection is a key part of professional practice and should be encouraged and supported at all levels.
- It is important to represent a variety of contexts, individuals and scenarios.
- White space is important. How we interact with learning materials is important. We hope you will find our design effective.
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
These modules were designed to empower leaders at all levels and in any educational context. We realize that is a lofty goal and we felt it was important to aspire to ensure that all leaders could see themselves in the scenarios and strategies we share. We have been in leadership roles and know how challenging and complex leadership in education can be.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, WordPress XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links), Common Cartridge (LTI Links)
ECE Current Issues
Author(s): Taya Noland
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description:
Welcome to Leadership in Early Care and Education! We hope you find this text helpful, thought provoking, and affirming. We created this text to support learning in a couple of different. This text can be used from start to finish, or as modules that you (the instructor or the student) select based on your learning outcomes.
We created this text with these principles in mind:
- Anyone can be a leader at any time. Leadership is not title specific and the field of Early Care and Education needs leaders from diverse background, experiences, and expertise.
- Leadership has an inherent set of responsibilities and leaders need to understand what those are and how to navigate them.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important topics and leadership should be grounded in them.
- Reflection is a key part of professional practice and should be encouraged and supported at all levels.
- It is important to represent a variety of contexts, individuals and scenarios.
- White space is important. How we interact with learning materials is important. We hope you will find our design effective.
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
These modules were designed to empower leaders at all levels and in any educational context. We realize that is a lofty goal and we felt it was important to aspire to ensure that all leaders could see themselves in the scenarios and strategies we share. We have been in leadership roles and know how challenging and complex leadership in education can be.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, WordPress XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links), Common Cartridge (LTI Links)
ECE Educator Development
Author(s): Dr. Tammy Marino
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description:
Welcome to Leadership in Early Care and Education! We hope you find this text helpful, thought provoking, and affirming. We created this text to support learning in a couple of different. This text can be used from start to finish, or as modules that you (the instructor or the student) select based on your learning outcomes.
We created this text with these principles in mind:
- Anyone can be a leader at any time. Leadership is not title specific and the field of Early Care and Education needs leaders from diverse background, experiences, and expertise.
- Leadership has an inherent set of responsibilities and leaders need to understand what those are and how to navigate them.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important topics and leadership should be grounded in them.
- Reflection is a key part of professional practice and should be encouraged and supported at all levels.
- It is important to represent a variety of contexts, individuals and scenarios.
- White space is important. How we interact with learning materials is important. We hope you will find our design effective.
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
These modules were designed to empower leaders at all levels and in any educational context. We realize that is a lofty goal and we felt it was important to aspire to ensure that all leaders could see themselves in the scenarios and strategies we share. We have been in leadership roles and know how challenging and complex leadership in education can be.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, WordPress XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links), Common Cartridge (LTI Links)
ECE Ethical Leadership
Author(s): Dr. Tammy Marino
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description:
Welcome to Leadership in Early Care and Education! We hope you find this text helpful, thought provoking, and affirming. We created this text to support learning in a couple of different. This text can be used from start to finish, or as modules that you (the instructor or the student) select based on your learning outcomes.
We created this text with these principles in mind:
- Anyone can be a leader at any time. Leadership is not title specific and the field of Early Care and Education needs leaders from diverse background, experiences, and expertise.
- Leadership has an inherent set of responsibilities and leaders need to understand what those are and how to navigate them.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important topics and leadership should be grounded in them.
- Reflection is a key part of professional practice and should be encouraged and supported at all levels.
- It is important to represent a variety of contexts, individuals and scenarios.
- White space is important. How we interact with learning materials is important. We hope you will find our design effective.
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
These modules were designed to empower leaders at all levels and in any educational context. We realize that is a lofty goal and we felt it was important to aspire to ensure that all leaders could see themselves in the scenarios and strategies we share. We have been in leadership roles and know how challenging and complex leadership in education can be.
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ECE Leadership Skills
Author(s): Dr. Maidie Rosengarden
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description:
Welcome to Leadership in Early Care and Education! We hope you find this text helpful, thought provoking, and affirming. We created this text to support learning in a couple of different. This text can be used from start to finish, or as modules that you (the instructor or the student) select based on your learning outcomes.
We created this text with these principles in mind:
- Anyone can be a leader at any time. Leadership is not title specific and the field of Early Care and Education needs leaders from diverse background, experiences, and expertise.
- Leadership has an inherent set of responsibilities and leaders need to understand what those are and how to navigate them.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important topics and leadership should be grounded in them.
- Reflection is a key part of professional practice and should be encouraged and supported at all levels.
- It is important to represent a variety of contexts, individuals and scenarios.
- White space is important. How we interact with learning materials is important. We hope you will find our design effective.
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
These modules were designed to empower leaders at all levels and in any educational context. We realize that is a lofty goal and we felt it was important to aspire to ensure that all leaders could see themselves in the scenarios and strategies we share. We have been in leadership roles and know how challenging and complex leadership in education can be.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, WordPress XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links), Common Cartridge (LTI Links)
ECE Motivation and Teamwork
Author(s): Dr. Tammy Marino
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description:
Welcome to Leadership in Early Care and Education! We hope you find this text helpful, thought provoking, and affirming. We created this text to support learning in a couple of different. This text can be used from start to finish, or as modules that you (the instructor or the student) select based on your learning outcomes.
We created this text with these principles in mind:
- Anyone can be a leader at any time. Leadership is not title specific and the field of Early Care and Education needs leaders from diverse background, experiences, and expertise.
- Leadership has an inherent set of responsibilities and leaders need to understand what those are and how to navigate them.
- Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important topics and leadership should be grounded in them.
- Reflection is a key part of professional practice and should be encouraged and supported at all levels.
- It is important to represent a variety of contexts, individuals and scenarios.
- White space is important. How we interact with learning materials is important. We hope you will find our design effective.
Leaders in Early Childhood Education and K-12 Education exist at levels and take many different paths to leadership. Some receive formal education and while many find themselves in leadership roles because they have the most tenure. Most become leaders through a combination of education and experience – and all are woefully underprepared for what they experience.
These modules were designed to empower leaders at all levels and in any educational context. We realize that is a lofty goal and we felt it was important to aspire to ensure that all leaders could see themselves in the scenarios and strategies we share. We have been in leadership roles and know how challenging and complex leadership in education can be.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, WordPress XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links), Common Cartridge (LTI Links)
ECE Principles and Practices Prek-4
Author(s): Alison Angelaccio
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2024
Description: Welcome to Bucks County Community College’s Early Childhood Education program. We are so excited you have decided to join us on your journey into the wonderful world of young children!
If you are reading this, you’re likely interested in learning more about becoming an early childhood professional. Perhaps you’re just curious and want to know a little bit more about young children. Maybe you want to make up your mind after finding out a little bit more about what is involved. In either case, your interest and curiosity are two key characteristics that will make this a positive growth experience for you.
You probably had other options but made coming to this class a priority. You care about children. You have an audacity of kindness and passion for teaching. Adhering to these qualities is the launching pad for successful early childhood professionals.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 3 H5P activities
Gems and nuggets
Author(s): Anita Accendere, Bayleigh Mantell, Cathy Cody, Claudia Aston, Deirdre Byrne, Stefanie Kennedy, Shauna Hart, Delena Kendall, Sarah Kallman, Lauren Matthews, Rebecca Dooley, Natalie Loosemore, Jacynta Hunt, Indiah Sinclair, Megan Higgs, Georgia Butler, Selena Dyer
Editor(s): Karen Hawkins, Eseta Tualaulelei
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND – Note, this is not strictly an open text (no adaptations allowed)
Year: 2020
Description:
Early childhood educators understand the importance of respecting, valuing and celebrating Reconciliation and Intercultural Education. The problem is How do we actually and specifically do this in our particular contexts? How can our pedagogy reflect this?
Gems and Nuggets arose from the above concerns (more specifically highlighted throughout this book) put forward by early childhood educators who attended a professional development workshop on the topics of Reconciliation and Intercultural Education at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) in November, 2019. To answer the educators’ concerns pre-service Educators from USQ researched the topics of Reconciliation and Intercultural Education in Australia (particularly in Queensland). These students had been studying Intercultural Communication in Early Learning Contexts as part of their education degree and were inspired by the educators’ concerns and well equipped to undertake research to address their questions.
This book is divided into two parts. Part 1: Reconciliation offers pedagogical strategies to support Reconciliation in the early childhood classroom and provides links to resources that will offer specific information on Reconciliation in Australia. Part 2: Intercultural Education suggests pedagogical strategies to support intercultural and multicultural education in the early childhood classroom and includes links to resources that also offer information on the topics. Each chapter highlights the importance of respecting, valuing and celebrating cultural diversity for the Culturally Competent Educator.
Resulting from the educators’ concerns, the pre-service educators’ research offers gems of wisdom and gold nuggets of explicit resources to support and promote Reconciliation and Intercultural Education in the early childhood context. We hope that this book inspires you!
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Mathematics Methods for Early Childhood
Author(s): Janet Stramel
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2021
Description:
Most people agree that early childhood includes the period from infancy until eight years of age, characterized by rapid and complex growth in physical, cognitive, and social domains. Math skills must be taught in early childhood. Children should be provided a foundation to succeed in elementary school and beyond. Teachers should focus lessons in early childhood around the basic skills that will help to advance future mathematics. From preschool to the end of elementary school, children are setting the foundation for future life skills.
Learning mathematics is “a ‘natural’ and developmentally appropriate activity for young children” (Ginsberg, Lee, and Boyd, 2008). Through their everyday interactions with the world, many children develop informal concepts about space, quantity, size, patterns, and operations. Unfortunately, not all children have the same opportunities to build these informal and foundational concepts of mathematics in their day-to-day lives (Sherman-LeVos, 2010).
Young children are naturally curious, and the best time to begin mathematics is at a time while the young child’s brain is rapidly developing. Mathematics in early childhood helps children develop critical thinking and reasoning skills early on and it’s the key to the foundation for success in their formal schooling years.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, MOBI
Observing Early Learning Canadian Edition
Author(s): Danielle Prevost
Editor(s): Janice Quade
Licence: CC BY-NC
Year: 2024
Description:
We are pleased to share the first Canadian edition of Observing Early Learning. This textbook is being published as an open educational resource for students who are studying early childhood development.
The Canadian context has been added to align with the College of ECEs Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice as well as the Ministry of Education the Child and Early Years Act and finally speaks to the Calls to Action published by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Outdoor Play Resource Guide: ECE
Author(s): Erin Cameron, Dawn Danko
Licence: CC BY-SA
Year: 2019
Description: The following resource is a compilation of current literature that captures the importance and benefits of outdoor, nature-based play in early childhood education programming, and highlights the role of risky play in children’s development. Outdoor play in natural settings provides opportunities for both healthy development and is a potential means to address childcare shortages. Scotland is one example of a society using outdoor nature play as a means to increase the health of its people while increasing access to quality childcare. In February 2018, a pan-Canadian group toured the Glasgow area of Scotland to engage in dialogue about outdoor play philosophy, policies, and the influence of culture. Pictures featured throughout this publication reflect experiences from Scotland and the variety of ways in which children are engaged in outdoor play. The programs toured varied from childcare and public playgrounds redeveloped to include more natural materials, to half-day community centre programs spent at nearby Forest Service Sites and wooded public parks. All locations toured are within walking distance to a childcare program or community centre as increasing the public’s use of and safety in local green spaces is important to long-term community health in Scotland. At all locations, staff to child ratios are doubled in outdoor environments; this is achieved by using Play Rangers, Forestry Staff, parents, and volunteers. To meet the growing demand for educators with outdoor experience, Clyde College in Glasgow provides outdoor education to the students enrolled in its Early Childhood Education program one-day per week in a Flags act as a trail marker to a wooded classroom.
wooded area of a nearby park. Programs and strategies observed in Scotland are the inspiration for the following resource.
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Includes: 4 H5P activities
Understanding the Whole Child
Author(s): Jennifer Paris, Antoinette Ricardo, Dawn Rymond, Alexa Johnson
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2022
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Childcare Programming, Administration, and Supervision, Birth-PreK
Author(s): Dr. Susan K. Eliason
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2017
Description:
This electronic textbook supports a required course at Bridgewater State University in the program of study for the Early Education and Care Birth-K major. The course, ECPK 480 Childcare Programming, Administration, and Supervision, Birth-PreK, is taken concurrently with supervised field placements. Student are teaching in a licensed childcare facility and have access to program documents.
ECPK 480 focuses on the information and skills necessary for operating, managing, and supervising high quality early childhood programs. Topics include: Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) licensing regulations, QRIS and NAEYC standards, establishing program policies, administrative responsibilities, fiscal management, staff supervision and development, program evaluation, family involvement and rights, hiring procedures, health and safety, environments, selection of materials, and community resources.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Pedagogical Leadership for Early Learning Educators
Author(s): Claudia Sasse
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2023
Description:
Welcome to Pedagogical Leadership for Early Childhood Educators. This book supplements content for the ECEL 3008 course, which is part of the ELCC Leadership Certificate Program taught at Red Deer Polytechnic.
The aim of this book is to present current and significant content that will bring forward the Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) developed for the ECEL 3008 course. The ECEL 3008 course has ten CLOs intended to be achieved within the classroom and workplace settings.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Growing Calm: Nurturing Self-Regulation in Young Children
Author(s): Marie Poss, Lorraine Purgret
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2024
Description: Growing Calm is a comprehensive book dedicated to empower educators, parents, and caregivers in nurturing self-regulation in young children. This book explores the critical role of self-regulation in early childhood development and provides practical strategies for nurturing and supporting self-regulation in everyday settings.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPIB, PDF
Includes: 11 H5P activities
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