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Dodge, Diane Trister – Child Care Information Exchange, 1995
Offers guidelines for childcare providers in working with parents to accomplish mutual goals. Focuses on building a relationship with families; articulating a clear philosophy; setting social, emotional, cognitive, and physical goals for the curriculum; using the environment to communicate the philosophy and goals of the curriculum; and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Download full textDodge, Diane Trister; Colker, Laura J. – 1991
This trainer's guide presents two approaches to working with providers who are implementing The Creative Curriculum for Family Child Care. The first approach involves periodic workshops and sharing sessions for providers. The second approach involves individualized support offered by the trainer in each provider's home. In Chapter I, Planning…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Dodge, Diane Trister; And Others – 1988
This curriculum guide for teachers of young children provides a framework that sets forth the program's philosophy, goals, and objectives for children, as well as guidelines for teaching that address all aspects of a child's development (socio-emotional, cognitive, and physical). It attempts to offer teachers the guidance, support, and freedom to…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Creative Teaching, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education
Dodge, Diane Trister; Colker, Laura J.; Heroman, Cate – 2002
The Creative Curriculum for early childhood education is a teaching framework that addresses children's emotional, cognitive, and physical development. This supplement to the Creative Curriculum is designed to enhance teachers' effectiveness in understanding how content is linked to teaching and learning in a developmentally appropriate curriculum…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Dodge, Diane Trister; Colker, Laura J.; Heroman, Cate – 2000
The Creative Curriculum for early childhood education is a teaching framework that addresses children's emotional, cognitive, and physical development. This supplement to the Creative Curriculum is designed to enhance teachers' effectiveness in understanding how content is linked to teaching and learning in a developmentally appropriate curriculum…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Guides, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Dodge, Diane Trister; Colker, Laura J. – 1991
Designed to provide practical and comprehensive assistance to family child care providers in a range of settings, this curriculum consists of two parts. Part 1, Setting the Stage, helps caregivers formulate a philosophy of child care, understand child development, prepare their homes, and plan their programs. It includes many ideas for making the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Dodge, Diane Trister; Kittredge, Bonnie – 2003
A well-ordered classroom promotes learning, helps build a classroom community, and frees teachers to observe and interact with children in positive ways. This videotape shows how classroom and outdoor environments can convey six positive messages for preschool children: (1) this is a good place to be; (2) you belong here as a valued member of the…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
Jones, Candy; Dodge, Diane Trister – 2004
The Creative Curriculum for Preschool is a comprehensive resource for establishing and sustaining a quality preschool program. The first of two volumes of trainer's guides to The Creative Curriculum for Preschool, this book offers detailed workshops and handouts on the foundation of the curriculum, four of the five components of the curriculum…
Descriptors: Child Development, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Guides, Early Experience
Dodge, Diane Trister; And Others – 1989
A supervised, self-instructional training program for the professional development of child caregivers is offered. Included in this volume, the first of two, are orientation materials and six training modules that are organized around the first six functional areas of the Child Development Associate (CDA) Competency Standards. These areas concern…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Health, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development
Dodge, Diane Trister; And Others – 1991
This text is Volume I of a comprehensive, self-instructional training program designed to address the training needs of child care programs serving children under 3 years of age. The two volumes are divided into modules that correspond to the 13 functional areas of the Child Development Associate competency standards. The modules may be completed…
Descriptors: Caregiver Training, Child Abuse, Child Caregivers, Child Health
Dodge, Diane Trister; And Others – 1994
There is a growing consensus among educators that a major reason why traditional curriculum approaches have failed is that they are not based on knowledge of what is age-appropriate or individually appropriate for young children. This book provides practitioners with a practical framework for making curriculum effective and responsive for children…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Dodge, Diane Trister; Colker, Laura J.; Heroman, Cate – 2002
This teaching guide provides teachers of young children with a philosophy and guidelines for teaching that address childrens social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. The guide describes a curriculum that offers teachers guidance, support, and freedom to be creative and responsive with children, and provides children, including those…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Class Organization
Dodge, Diane Trister; Colker, Laura J. – 1996
This Spanish-language teaching guide provides early childhood teachers with a philosophy and guidelines for teaching that address children's social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development. The guide describes a curriculum that offers teachers guidance, support, and freedom to be creative and responsive with children, and provides children,…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Development, Childhood Needs, Class Organization
Bickart, Toni S.; Jablon, Judy R.; Dodge, Diane Trister – 1999
Addressed primarily to elementary school teachers working with children in grades one through three and grounded in developmentally appropriate practice, this book provides a practical framework for making teaching effective and learning meaningful for children in these early grades. Chapters in Part 1 of the book each present one of six teaching…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Computer Uses in Education
