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Main Author: Isbell, Rebecca
Format: Recurso educativo Open Access
Language:en
Published: 1995
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Online Access:https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED400099
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contents The Complete Learning Center Book: An Illustrated Guide for 32 Different Early Childhood Learning Centers. Isbell, Rebecca Active Learning Classroom Techniques Cooperative Learning Discovery Learning Early Childhood Education Experiential Learning Individualized Instruction Instructional Design Learner Controlled Instruction Learning Centers (Classroom) Learning Processes Play Young children are active learners who touch, feel, experiment, and create. Learning centers are designed to relate to their world of active learning and to encourage their involvement, thereby enhancing development of choice making, oral language, creativity, social skills, responsibility, and understanding of symbols. This book includes suggestions to help the busy teacher meet the challenges of developing effective centers, including enrichment of traditional centers and creating new dramatic and literature-based centers. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to planning, designing, and setting up centers, and chapter 6 discusses evaluation of center effectiveness and children's involvement. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 contain detailed plans for centers, including: (1) learning objectives; (2) time frame; (3) letter to parents; (4) illustrated layout; (5) vocabulary enrichment; (6) teacher-collected and child-created props; (7) literacy connections; (8) center activities; and (9) evaluation of the center. Ideas for learning centers include housekeeping, art, sand and water, library, music and sound, writing, science and nature, grocery store, doctor's office, farm, beach, space, environmental awareness, fitness, nighttime, and long ago. (EV)
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spellingShingle The Complete Learning Center Book: An Illustrated Guide for 32 Different Early Childhood Learning Centers.
Isbell, Rebecca
Active Learning
Classroom Techniques
Cooperative Learning
Discovery Learning
Early Childhood Education
Experiential Learning
Individualized Instruction
Instructional Design
Learner Controlled Instruction
Learning Centers (Classroom)
Learning Processes
Play
The Complete Learning Center Book: An Illustrated Guide for 32 Different Early Childhood Learning Centers. Isbell, Rebecca Active Learning Classroom Techniques Cooperative Learning Discovery Learning Early Childhood Education Experiential Learning Individualized Instruction Instructional Design Learner Controlled Instruction Learning Centers (Classroom) Learning Processes Play Young children are active learners who touch, feel, experiment, and create. Learning centers are designed to relate to their world of active learning and to encourage their involvement, thereby enhancing development of choice making, oral language, creativity, social skills, responsibility, and understanding of symbols. This book includes suggestions to help the busy teacher meet the challenges of developing effective centers, including enrichment of traditional centers and creating new dramatic and literature-based centers. Chapter 1 provides an introduction to planning, designing, and setting up centers, and chapter 6 discusses evaluation of center effectiveness and children's involvement. Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 contain detailed plans for centers, including: (1) learning objectives; (2) time frame; (3) letter to parents; (4) illustrated layout; (5) vocabulary enrichment; (6) teacher-collected and child-created props; (7) literacy connections; (8) center activities; and (9) evaluation of the center. Ideas for learning centers include housekeeping, art, sand and water, library, music and sound, writing, science and nature, grocery store, doctor's office, farm, beach, space, environmental awareness, fitness, nighttime, and long ago. (EV)
title The Complete Learning Center Book: An Illustrated Guide for 32 Different Early Childhood Learning Centers.
topic Active Learning
Classroom Techniques
Cooperative Learning
Discovery Learning
Early Childhood Education
Experiential Learning
Individualized Instruction
Instructional Design
Learner Controlled Instruction
Learning Centers (Classroom)
Learning Processes
Play
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED400099