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Experiences In Nature: Pathways To Standards, Jennifer Leeper Miller, Jennifer Benson Gerdes Jul 2008

Experiences In Nature: Pathways To Standards, Jennifer Leeper Miller, Jennifer Benson Gerdes

Department of Child, Youth, and Family Studies: Faculty Publications

Experiences in nature provide an easily accessible pathway to addressing standards. If teachers provide time in the natural world children are using this environment to learn. The outdoor environment gives teachers a perfect location and the tools to teach and meet standards in the early childhood classroom.


Some Thoughts On Health Department Accreditation, F. Douglas Scutchfield Md Jun 2008

Some Thoughts On Health Department Accreditation, F. Douglas Scutchfield Md

Preventive Medicine and Environmental Health Presentations

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Documentation And The Use Of Technology In The Study Of Early Childhood Learning, Nancy Barrick Gaumer Jan 2008

Documentation And The Use Of Technology In The Study Of Early Childhood Learning, Nancy Barrick Gaumer

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Documentation is the process of record-keeping and collection of children's work at different stages of development and of making children's thinking and learning visible. Documentation is done for a variety of purposes such as guiding instruction, assessment of development, studying pedagogy, and communicating with others. Documentation (sometimes called "pedagogical documentation") guides instruction by focusing teachers on what children know, what they are interested in, and providing clues as to the best ways to reach and teach individuals and groups of children. Assessing the development of individual children is probably one of the most common uses of documentation. Documentation gives us …