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The New Voices = Nuevas Voces Guide to Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Early Childhood/The New Voices = Nuevas Voces Facilitator's Guide to Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Early Childhood
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Castro, Dina C.; Ayankoya, Betsy; Kasprzak, Christina – Brookes Publishing Company, 2011
As early childhood programs and schools become more culturally and linguistically diverse, professionals need to create settings that welcome "new voices" and help all children succeed. This comprehensive professional development course gives them the in-depth practical guidance they need. Developed by respected scholar Dina Castro and her expert…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Cultural Pluralism, Program Effectiveness
The Paraprofessional's Guide to Assisting Classroom Instruction. Video and Workbook.
Wallace, Teri – 2003
This videotape and accompanying workbook are intended to help paraprofessional school personnel learn necessary skills to assist in classroom instruction. The workbook provides supplementary information and each section includes suggested activities for putting knowledge and skills into practice and suggestions for reflection. Individual sections…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Classroom Techniques, Definitions, Elementary Education
Enhancing Skills of Paraeducators: A Video-Assisted Training Program. [Multimedia Kit].
Salzberg, Charles L.; Morgan, Robert L.; Gassman, Gregory W.; Pickett, Anna Lou; Merrill, Zan – 1993
This kit for training paraeducators working with students who have disabilities includes a facilitator's manual, a paraeducator workbook, and six videotapes, one for each unit of instruction, and an instructor training videotape. The materials are to be used with small groups during training sessions totaling 14-20 hours. The facilitator's manual…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Communication Skills, Disabilities, Educational Principles
Innovations in Detroit Head Start. [Videotape].
Merrill-Palmer Inst., Detroit, MI. – 1997
The Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood teaching is based on curriculum and teaching practices developed in the preschools of Reggio Emilia, Italy. This video highlights an ongoing Detroit, Michigan Head Start staff development project, inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach. The staff development program was launched in consultation with…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Classroom Environment, Educational Change, Parent School Relationship
Successful Science: Technology and Support for Students with Disabilities. NCIP Profiles Series. [Videotape].
Education Development Center, Newton, MA. National Center to Improve Practice. – 1998
This videotape recording (20 minutes) and print profile illustrate how educators are using technology to help students with disabilities succeed in science. In the first segment of the video, several elementary classrooms in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are visited where students with and without disabilities carry out inquiry-based science with the…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Computer Uses in Education, Disabilities
Tools for Teaching Developmentally Appropriate Practice: The Leading Edge in Early Childhood Education. [Videotape Series].
National Association for the Education of Young Children, Washington, DC. – 1998
This set of training videotapes teaches the key points of the "Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs--Revised Edition." The videos present more than 3 hours of programming produced in short stand- alone programs ranging in length from 3 to 20 minutes. The videos are designed to be used in a variety of ways to stimulate…
Descriptors: Child Development, Context Effect, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education