Part 1: Early Childhood Education and Professional Development
1 You and Early Childhood Education
2 Current Issues and Public Policy
3 Observing and Assessing Young Children
Part 2: Foundations: History and Theories
4 The Past and the Present
5 Theories Applied to Teaching and Learning
Part 3: Programs and Services for Children and Families
6 Early Childhood Programs
Part 4: Teaching Today’s Young Children: Linking Development and Learning
9 Infants and Toddlers
10 The Preschool Years
11 Kindergarten Education
12 The Primary Grades
13 Technology and Young Children
Part 5: Meeting the Special Needs of Young Children
14 Guiding Children
15 Multiculturalism
17 Parent, Family, and Community Involvement