1st Edition
Nurturing Young Thinkers Across the Standards K–2
Nurturing Young Thinkers Across the Standards: K–2 provides multiple practical resources to assist teachers in working with standards across subject areas in ways that bring critical thinking into the everyday process of learning content and skills. The authors provide suggestions for engaging and sustaining children’s interest and illustrate the use of teaching language that actively nurtures the habits of lifelong learning. The book is rich with opportunities for developing tools for design, implementation, and assessment of vibrant integrated curricula for K–2 students that support the development of cognitive skills and increase confidence in their abilities to think and learn.
Chapter 1: The Standards: A Vehicle to Actively Engage Young Learners
Chapter 2: Key Learning Processes Standards and How we Teach
Chapter 3: Nurturing Learning Through Authentic Interactions
Chapter 4: Assessment
Chapter 5: Embedding Process into Instructional Plan Targeting Content: Grade PreK-K
Chapter 6: Embedding Process into Instructional Plan Targeting Content: Grade 1-2
Chapter 7: The Challenges Ahead
Biography
Wynne A. Shilling is Professor Emerita at York College, City University of New York, USA, and Co-Director of the CUNY Literacy Enhancement Project.
Sydney L. Schwartz is Professor Emerita at Queens College, City University of New York, USA, and Co-Director of the CUNY Literacy Enhancement Project.
Teachers and administrators who want to develop classroom-tested techniques and questioning strategies that are meaningful, sensitive to children’s sense of confidence, and capable of sprouting independent thinkers will find this book useful. Inside you will find specific resources, templates, and action-oriented related lessons across grades 1 and 2 in literacy, mathematics, science, and social studies. Justifiably differentiated means and formative assessments round out the fulfilled promise of "meeting" standards—and perhaps exceeding them.—Dr. Doris Pronin Fromberg, Professor Emerita, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
What a relief to discover a book that does not equate using standards with teaching to the test! Nurturing Young Thinkers Across the Standards: K–2 empowers early childhood teachers to interpret standards in ways that enable the creative thinking that is and will continue to be needed in a rapidly changing world. Drawing on their long experience as teachers and teacher educators, Shilling and Schwartz get at the complexity of teaching itself, and they do it in ways that make me think that if I were a new teacher or a teacher newly charged with working with standards, I would be so glad for this book that provides realistic pathways to engaging young learners.
— Frances Rust, Ed.D., New York University-Metro Center
