An Active Practicum Guide for Early Childhood Educators [Paperback] Marcus, Barbara and Nyisztor, Diane

Product Description An Active Practicum Guide for Early Childhood Educatorsis the first text to address your specific needs for your early childhood practicum. The goal of this text is to support and guide you through a successful practicum experience by focusing on quality involvement and planning for young children. A practical tool, this text contains many suggestions, tools, strategies, and links to resources for you to apply to your practices as well as insights from other practicum students, educators, and directors to help you reflect upon their own experiences. Review “It [the text] is very useful and supplements many of the courses we offer students.”--Andrea Brown, George Brown College “I absolutely LOVE the chapters of this manuscript, and the order in which they appear.…I really like that the last chapter opens the student up to future/advance field experiences, and prepares them for the choices of work available as an early childhood educator.”--—Dale Long, Seneca College About the Author Barbara Marcus has been involved in ECE for over thirty-five years as both a college teacher and fieldwork supervisor. She has previously been involved in numerous conferences and workshops as well as teacher training in China. She is the co-author of Pearson Canada’s Balanced Curriculum for Young Children (2008). Diane Nyisztor is the Coordinator of the Early Childhood Education Department at Vanier College. Her experience in the field includes work as an educator, centre director, teacher, and fieldwork supervisor. She has co-authored several texts in ECE, including Pearson Canada’s Balanced Curriculum for Young Children.