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Eight Keys to Quality Infant Care
May 2, 2016
I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude, and grace.
-Brene Brown
-Brene Brown
In Prime Times: A Handbook for Excellence in Infant and Toddler Programs, Anne Stonehouse, Gigi Schweikert, and the late Jim Greenman identified eight key concepts of quality programs for infants and toddlers:
- High expectations for every child
- Prime times — the importance of adult-child interactions
- Planned child-choice learning environments
- Emergent curriculum
- Developmentally appropriate instruction
- Making learning visible through documentation and display
- Full partnerships with parents
- Twenty-first century technology
Prime Times:
A Handbook for Excellence in Infant and Toddler Programs
Achieve quality care and education in your infant or toddler program with this practical guide—a sourcebook for establishing, organizing, and maintaining a quality program. This second edition includes topics such as developmental issues; infants and toddlers with special needs; staffing and staff training; creating learning and nurturing environments; establishing routines; discipline; health, nutrition, and safety policies; curriculum; partnering with parents; assessment; and program evaluation. Charts, tables, and illustrations enhance the text, and a CD-ROM offers reproducible forms, policy statements, and training handouts.
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