Making Links: A Collaborative Approach to Planning and Practice in Early Childhood Programs

This book is about creating an environment, experiences, interactions, and relationships that allow children (birth-age 5) in center-based and family childcare programs to have authentic experiences that will promote their development and learning. To address planning and practice the authors zero in on knowing and respecting the individual child, the group, and working in partnership with the families. Rather than focussing on individual activities per se, the emphasis is on paying attention to the child's whole experience in the program. The authors examine what you need to know about children and their families, how to translate that information, how to translate that information into plans and experiences, and how to include parents in the process.… (more)