"With the right approach, a plain white hat and a plate full of yarn spaghetti can contribute to a young child's cognitive development"(Elena Bodrova,2003).
"In a comprehensive review of numerous studies on play, researchers found evidence that play contributes to advances in 'verbalization, vocabulary, language comprehension, attention span, imagination, concentration, impulse control, curiosity, problem-solving strategies, cooperation, empathy, and group participation'"(Smilansky&Shefatya,1990, Elena Bodrova,2003).
Research provides additional evidence of the strong connections between quality of play in preschool years and children's readiness for school instruction(Bowman, 2000),Elena Bodrova).
"The name Head Start was chosen by academics who understood that achievement gap and that middle slass students get ahead of their lower class peers"(Kagan,2002).http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.bell//background_history
"Berkiner's metaphor that poverty is the 600 pound gorilla in the classroom, I believe sums up how much of a stressor being financially trapped can be"http://sitemaker.umich.edu/356.bell//background_history
Quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write it in the books of law."http://americanhistory.about.com/cs/lyndonbjohnson/a/quotelbj.htm
"Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty."http://equotes.wetpaint.com/page/Lyndon+B.+Johnson+Quotes
"Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
- Dr. Hiam Ginnot http://www.successdegrees.com/inspirationalquotesaboutearlychildhoodeducationandteaching.
"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand."
- Chinese proverb http://www.successdegrees.com/inspirationalquotesaboutearlychildhoodeducationandteaching.
"Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten."
- Robert. L. Ehrlich http://www.successdegrees.com/inspirationalquotesaboutearlychildhoodeducationandteaching.
"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read."
- Marilyn Jager Adams
http://www.successdegrees.com/inspirationalquotesaboutearlychildhoodeducationandteaching.
Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education
As the only text of its kind, this book provides in-depth information about Vygotsky's theories, neo-Vygotskians' findings, and concrete explanations and strategies that instruct teachers how to influence student learning and development. Key changes to this edition include a new chapter on dynamic assessment, separate and expanded chapters on developmental accomplishments of infants and toddlers, preschool/kindergarten, and primary grades and on supporting those accomplishments, and elaborations of Vygotsky's ideas from neo-Vygotskians from Russia. FEATURES <LI>Written for the beginning student, the book provides a clear discussion of Vygotskian principles including...a historical overview and a complete chapter on the "Zone of Proximal Development," (ZPD). <LI>Each section of the book builds on the other...framework, strategies, and applications of the Vygotskian approach. <LI>The work of Vygotsky is compared in a fair and balanced way with the work of Piaget. <LI>Examples and activities have been class-tested in a variety of classroom environments including a Head Start program, private preschool, and in the Denver Public Schools.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617888.Tools_of_the_Mind
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/617888.Tools_of_the_Mind
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