Prime times : a handbook for excellence in infant and toddler programs /
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| Author / Creator: | Greenman, James T., 1949- |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | St. Paul, MN : Redleaf Press, c2008. |
| Description: | vii, 344 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6657939 |
Table of Contents:
- The context of good care: good organizations for infant and toddler care
- Child care in the real world
- Understanding how child care centers work: the center as an organization
- Foundations of quality: visions, goals, characteristics, and fundamental assumptions
- Organizing the program
- Understanding infants and toddlers
- The first two years of life: what do infants and toddlers need most?
- Grouping infants and toddlers
- Structuring time and space for quality care
- Sharing care with families
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with parents
- Good places for staff
- Quality care and learning
- Good care for infants and toddlers
- Prime times: caring routines
- Safe and healthy environments for infants and toddlers
- Guiding the behavior of infants and toddlers
- Interactions with infants and toddlers: the caregiver as teacher
- Curriculum and learning
- The indoor learning environment
- Infants and toddlers outdoors
- Planning for learning
- Staying good: evaluation and quality control
- Ongoing program evaluation and change.
