The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms

Autor/in	McNamee, Gillian Dowley
Titel	The High-Performing Preschool: Story Acting in Head Start Classrooms
Quelle	(2015), (200 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-226-26081-5
Schlagwörter	Preschool Education; Educational Quality; Preschool Children; At Risk Students; Story Telling; Childrens Literature; Teaching Methods; Drama; Problem Solving; Ability; Cognitive Development; Curriculum; Imagination; Common Core State Standards; Child Development; Emergent Literacy; Kindergarten; Skill Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschule; 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Schauspiel; Problemlösen; Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit; Kognitive Entwicklung; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Common core curriculum; Curriculum; Kerncurriculum; Kindesentwicklung; Frühleseunterricht; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung
Abstract	"The High-Performing Preschool" takes readers into the lives of three- and four-year-old Head Start students during their first year of school and focuses on the centerpiece of their school day: story acting. In this activity, students act out stories from high-quality children's literature as well as stories dictated by their peers. Drawing on a unique pair of thinkers--Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky and renowned American teacher and educational writer Vivian G. Paley--Gillian Dowley McNamee elucidates the ways, and reasons, this activity is so successful. She shows how story acting offers a larger blueprint for curricula that helps ensure all preschools--not just those for society's well-to-do--are excellent. McNamee outlines how story acting cultivates children's oral and written language skills. She shows how it creates a crucial opportunity for teachers to guide children inside the interior logic and premises of an idea, and how it fosters the creation of a literary community. Starting with Vygotsky and Paley, McNamee paints a detailed portrait of high-quality preschool teaching, showing how educators can deliver on the promise of Head Start and provide a setting for all young children to become articulate, thoughtful, and literate learners. [Foreword by Michael Cole.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01