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Designed to help students understand how to work with children as they grow.Child Development: Early Stages Through Age 12
explores the many stages of growth and development that children
experience from the prenatal stage through the school-age years. Through
an in-depth, comprehensive study of children's physical, intellectual,
social, and emotional development, students will learn positive ways to
care for children and meet their needs during these formative early
years.
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Child Development: Early Stages Through Age 12
explores the many stages of growth and development that children
experience from the prenatal stage through the school-age years. Through
an in-depth, comprehensive study of children's physical, intellectual,
social, and emotional development, students will learn positive ways to
care for children and meet their needs during these formative early
years.
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- The works of major child development theorists, such as
Erikson, Piaget, Vygotsky, Gardner, and Kohlberg are featured throughout
the text. These examples of renowned work provide important information
needed when working with young children.
- Career information is
presented about various child-related occupations, identifying the
necessary skills, on-the-job duties, and education requirements needed
for achieving success in a child-related career.
- Brain studies,
21st Century learning, and mental health risk factors are explored in
depth to present current research findings in child development.
- Mental Health Advisories
provide information about risk factors, such as toxic stress, to raise
awareness of understanding about factors that can contribute to mental
health problems throughout life.
- Developmental Milestone and
Developmental Delay charts explain the different milestones children
accomplish by certain ages to reinforce what to expect developmentally
at each stage of the child's life.
- Each chapter is broken into
lessons, making it easy to assign manageable chunks and create lessons
that introduce and reinforce content for maximum understanding.
Workbook: Designed to help students review content, apply
knowledge, and develop critical-thinking skills. A wide variety of
activities help students review child development principles and
theories and apply chapter concepts. This supplement is a consumable
resource, designed with perforated pages so that a given chapter can be
removed and turned in for grading or checking.
Teachers Edition: Presents a variety of instructional strategies in thepage margins to review and reinforce chapter content. Answer keys appear next
to review questions. Also includes assessment techniques and correlations to
the National Family & Consumer Sciences Standards.
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