Engaging Children's Minds
eBook - ePub

Engaging Children's Minds

The Project Approach

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Engaging Children's Minds

The Project Approach

About this book

Now in its third edition, this book shows teachers how to incorporate the Project Approach into early childhood curricula, engaging children intellectually and heightening their capacities for thinking, hypothesizing, reasoning, and expressing their natural curiosity. Why has the Project Approach proven to be so successful for engaging young children intellectually and supporting their capacities to think, predict, hypothesize, reason, and express their natural curiosity? Simply put, because project work provides meaningful contexts in which young learners can readily apply and grasp the usefulness of their growing academic skills. This book provides a brief history and overview of the Project Approach and a thorough explanation of how to implement this method for best effect in a wide range of educational contexts. Intended for those who work with young children as well as caregivers and students in training to do so, readers will understand how to apply this approach in order to gain the interest of children and facilitate their mental growth. The book's chapters articulate the process and benefits of the project approach, identify and detail the three typical phases of project work, and provide specific suggestions for implementing each stage. The importance of documentation of the children's work to record the story of their investigation and findings is also discussed.

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Yes, you can access Engaging Children's Minds by Lilian G. Katz,Sylvia C. Chard,Yvonne Kogan in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education Teaching Methods. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781440828430
eBook ISBN
9798216079774

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. ONE: Introduction to the Project Approach
  9. TWO: Phases and Features of a Project and Teacher Planning
  10. THREE: Issues in Selecting Topics for Projects
  11. FOUR: Phase I: Getting Projects Started
  12. FIVE: Phase II: Projects in Progress
  13. SIX: Phase III: Concluding Projects
  14. SEVEN: Drawing in the Context of a Project
  15. EIGHT: Projects with Younger Children
  16. NINE: Projects in the Elementary School Years
  17. TEN: Documentation and the Project Approach
  18. ELEVEN: The Project Approach in Perspective
  19. References
  20. Subject Index
  21. Author Index
  22. About the Authors