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Projects That Power Young Minds Judy Harris Helm from Educational Leadership, September 2004 | Volume 62 | Number 1, special issue on Teaching for Meaning This article can be purchased online from the journal for $3. Click here to go to the ASCD journal site for this issue to purchase and download.
 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   New book for Parents!!!
"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.  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 Young Investigators is available in Chinese, Korean, Greek, and Polish. Click here to request information on how to obtain these translations  A Children's Journey:
The Fire Truck Project (video)
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  The Power of Projects: Meeting Contemporary Challenges in Early Childhood Classrooms-- Strategies and Solutions
Judy Harris Helm and Sallee Beneke (Editors) This book shows how good project work can provide solutions to 5 key challenges in schools and centers today:overcoming the ill effects of poverty, moving young children towards literacy, responding to children’s special needs, helping children learn a second language, and meeting standards effectively.Teachers share projects that demonstrate how the project approach provides a structure for classrooms which focuses teachers on children’s learning.Includes practical strategies with examples to maximize the benefits of project work in classrooms where teachers face these challenges.  Windows on Learning: Documenting Young Children's Work
Judy Harris Helm, Sallee Beneke, and Kathy Steinmeimer At the end of this book is the Mail Project, complete documentation of one project in an urban prekindergarten program. The book decribes the documentation process. 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. Windows on Learning is also available in Chinese and Korean. Click here to request information on how to obtain these translations  Engaging Children's Minds:
The Project Approach, Second Edition
Lilian G. Katz and Sylvia C. Chard This is the classic book on the project approach revised since the the popular first edition was published in 1989. Katz and Chard discuss in great detail the philosophical, theoretical, and research bases of project work. The three typical phases of project work are presented and detailed suggestions for implementing each one are described. Using specific examples, this book clarifies and articulates the process and benefits of the project approach. a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567505015/bestpractic03-20">Click here to order this book.  Rearview Mirror: Reflections on a Preschool Car Project
Sallee BenekeThis inexpensive publication is an excellent example of indepth documentation of a project in the US. Ms. Beneke documents the work of a master preschool teacher, her co-teachers, student teachers, and very young children as they explore the automotive laboratory adjacent to their classroom at the Illinois Valley Community College in Oglesby, Illinois. It provides not only wonderful documentation of a complex project but also how the teacher confronts her own questions about helping student teachers learn the Project Approach, about when and how to guide the children, and about when to give help and when to withhold it. Especially helpful is a description of one child's growth in the course of investigating the cars in the automotive laboratory. Click to view table of contents of Rearview Mirror Call (800) 583-4135 or email ecap@uiuc.edu to order Rearview Mirror  The Project Catalogs
The Project Approach Catalogs are available on the website of the Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or may be ordered by phone 217/333-1386 or 877/275-3227 Fax: 217/244-7732 Click here to view Catalog 1 Click here to view Catalog 2 Click here to view Catalog 3 Click here to see excerpts or order Catalog 4 which is still available in print. Some sample articles from the catalogs: Documenting Projects: For Beginners Incorporating the Project Approach into a Traditional Curriculum Notes from a Brainstorming Session of Teachers Beginning Project Projects, Engaged Learning, and Standards This survey of project teachers from Catalog 3 can be accessed here: Implementing the Project Approach: What Teachers Say  Online Journal Early Childhood Research and Practice ECRP
This online journal often includes excellent articles on project work which can be downloaded and shared with colleagues. It is published twice a year You can reach the ECRP site by clicking here. You can view an online project article about a combine project in a dual language kindergarten. The article includes, photos, children's work and video clips written by Rebecca Wilson, Best Practices Associate in Practice, by following this direct link: The Combine Project: An Experience in a Dual-Language Classroom by Rebecca A. Wilson This project is also available in Spanish: El proyecto de la cosechadora: una experiencia en una clase bilingüe  Observation Drawing With Children: A Framework For Teachers
Nancy R. Smith and the Drawing Study Group, comprised of: Laraine Cicchetti, Margaret C. Clark, Carolee Fucigna, Barbara Gordon O"Connor, Barbara Halley, and Maragaret KennedyThis book offers teachers guidance in helping children develop the mental and physical abilities used in the discovery and creation of meaning through drawing by: Giving students extensive experience with materials,keeping in mind developmental guidelines,planning lessons with clearly defined objectives and in carefully crafted sequence, choosing objects suitable for the given age group and appropriate to lesson objectives, fostering aesthetic qualities, and motivating and responding to children as they draw. These little books were orignially published by Dr.Chard as two practical guides. These guides are especially helpful for teachers of children who are old enough to independently use reading and writing as learning tools. The guides present many classroom ideas to support and integrate curriculum activities into project work. The three phases of project work are described fully with teacher roles and student roles. The Project Approach: Making Curriculum Come Alive (Book 1) The Project Approach: Managing Successful Projects (Book 2) The ERIC Clearinghouse maintained a variety of online resources on project work. These have been moved to the Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois. There are a number of digests that relate to project work that can be downloaded and there are articles on project work. Sylvia Chard maintains a project approach website. This is a direct link to a Bibliography of Citations on the Project Approach There are a number of excellent ERIC digests related to project work. These two page summaries of research are very helpful for inservice training and to give to parents and others interested in project work. These are links to some favorite ones. ERIC Digest: The Project Approach, Lilian G. Katz ERIC Digest: El Método Llamado Proyecto (The Project Approach in Spanish), Lilian G. Katz ERIC Digest: the Project Approach in Chinese , Lilian G. Katz ERIC Digest: Issues in Selecting Topics, Lilian G. Katz and Sylvia C. Chard | Documentation in Projects | Incorporating Project | New to Project Work | Projects Standards | What Teachers Say | Family Project Book | Teaching Parents | | 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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