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 New Tool Kit for Parent Educators has
everything you need to teach parents how to do projects at home!
This exciting new took kit will help you to teach parents and other caregivers how to use the project approach at home. A companion to Teaching Your Child to Love Learning: A Guide to Doing Projects at Home(below) this book with included CD-ROM provides everything needed to conduct a series of parent workshops or for use by home visitors or family literacy teachers. The Tool Kit book provides: • Sample agenda for workshops. • Task sheets for activities. • Handouts for participants. • Notes for Featured PowerPoint Presentations on the CD • Adaptations for specific populations. • Spanish version of handouts • A “Planning Journal” in Spanish & English The CD-ROM can be run on any PC. It is not necessary to have PowerPoint software to use it. The CD contains: • PowerPoint Presentations on the phases of a project • PowerPoint Presentations on how to topics • PowerPoint Presentations of the featured projects in the companion book to enable facilitators to share the projects in greater depth. • PowerPoint Presentations on additional family projects from diverse settings. PowerPoint Presentations may also be printed as transparencies and used on an overhead, or printed and put into notebooks to share informally with parents. Click here to order Teaching Parents to Do Projects at Home    This Book is for Parents and Grandparents!!!
"Teaching Your Child To Love Learning: A Guide to Projects at Home"
The "project approach" has long been a tremendous tool for educators working with young children. This is not an activity book but a book about doing in-depth investigations about topics that interest your child and you. The project approach stimulates your child's curiosity, shows the advantages of learning academic skills such as reading, writing and math and helps you build a strong relationship with your child as you share the adventure of learning together. In this book, we have adapted the approach to show parents, grandparents and other caregivers how to do meaningful and exciting projects at home. Featuring many photos of children doing project work this book thoroughly explains the benefits to both you and your child of doing projects together. Ideas are given for transforming your home into a place to learn including guidance for collecting and storing materials, making time for projects, and documenting your child's work. Seven complete examples of at-home projects are shared. Chapters also show you how to coach your child to build skills for reading and writing, mathematical development, scientific thinking, and more. Direction is also provided for adapting the project approach for use in family child care centers, home schooling, and gifted education. Click here to order Teaching Your Child to Love Learning.  The Power of Projects:
Meeting Contemporary Challenges in Early Childhood Classrooms-Strategies and Solutions
Judy Harris Helm and Sallee Beneke, Editors This book identifies five challenges facing teachers in prekindergarten, kindergarten and primary school: reducing the effects of poverty, moving children towards literacy, supporting second language learners, meeting special needs, and effectively integrating standards. Each challenge has a chapter with an overview of the challenge, specific stategies for using project work to meet that challenge, and a complete description of a project in a classroom where teachers are facing that challenge. The projects are described through pictures and teacher reflections. A chapter on documentation and assessment shows how to plan projects."Those committed to excellence in the teaching of young children will find the specific methods needed in this work. The teacher practices that increase achievement are all here." Martin Haberman, author of Star Teachers of Children in Poverty  Young Investigators:
The Project Approach in the Early Years
Judy Harris Helm and Lilian Katz This book presents student-initiated learning as a starting point for dynamic and responsive teaching. The story of how projects emerge, develop, and culminate is told through a combination of teacher interviews and vivid accounts of classroom practice. The book shows how teachers solve the practical problems of doing projects with young children, including selecting topics, organizing the classroom, setting up field visits, encouraging children to represent what they are learning, and involving parents Chapters are written from practice and include a step-by-step guide for teachers to use in guiding and documenting projects is included."In this beautifully written book, the reader takes a journey, discovering the many answers to the why, what, and how questions about the project approach. In addition to providing the essential how-to guidebook for projects, Helm and Katz address today’s burning issues–standards, evaluation, special populations, and relation to the larger curriculum." –Sue Bredekamp, Council for Professional Recognition This book is available in Chinese, Greek, Korean and Polish translations. Click here to request information on how to obtain these translations  A Children's Journey:
The Fire Truck Project (video)
Featuring Lilian Katz, Judy Harris Helm, and Pam Scranton Beginning with an introduction to young children’s projects by Lilian Katz and Judy Helm, A Children’s Journey: Investigating the Fire Truck brings to life the experiences of a group of young investigators in a community early childhood program serving children of all abilities. Through the eyes of teacher Pam Scranton and the children, as revealed within actual classroom footage, the viewer connects to the children’s wonder and curiosity as they investigate the community fire truck over time.Click here to order this video from Teachers College Press  Windows on Learning:
Documenting Children's Work
Judy Harris Helm, Sallee Beneke, and Kathy Steinmeimer This second edition presents an approach for thinking and communicating about documentation. Documentation was studied in a number of early childhood programs.The result is a framework, collection system, and display method that works in U.S. schools. Methods are applicable to many different curriculum models, including thematic teaching and the project approach. Features extensive examples of children’s and teachers’ work. At the end of the book is the Mail Project, complete documentation of one project in an urban prekindergarten program. This book is also available in Chinese and Korean. Click here to request information on how to obtain these translations  Windows On Learning:
A Framework For Making Decisions
Video
Featuring Judy Harris Helm, Sallee Beneke and classroom teacher Kathy SteinheimerBased on the work described in Windows on Learning, this 20-minute video shows documentation in action in the Valeska Hinton Early Childhood Education in Peoria, Illinois, an urban early childhood program for children ages 6 weeks through first grade. Produced by STARNET, Western Illinois University.Click here to order this video from Teachers College Press | Brain Development Resources | Project Approach Resources | Reggio Emilia Resources | Early Childhood Education | Books by Judy Harris Helm | Families in Crisis Resources | Early Literacy Resources | Resources on Standards Early Childhood | Assessment Materials | Resources Toddlers | Documenting Children's Learning | Windows Translations | Young Investigators Translations | | Workshops Keynotes | Books Resources | Consultation Services | Great Links | | Return Home | Our Philosophy | What's New | Services Resources | Contact Us | Download Page | |
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