Effective Early Childhood Programs: Turning Knowledge Into Action

Reprinted here are 2 chapters of a 10-chapter 104-page booklet published in 2005 by Susan Landry titled Effective Early Childhood Programs: Turning Knowledge into Action. Dr. Landry is Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Developmental Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. The booklet is based on a review and synthesis of 320 scientific publications and on Dr. Landry’s extensive research and personal experiences in early childhood classrooms and research settings as observer, teacher, early childhood developmentalist, and program evaluator. The booklet is intended to be a simply stated, nontechnical, practical guide for preschool teaching based on practices that have been shown by research to be effective. The entire Landry booklet can be downloaded free of charge in color from Dr. Landry’s website http://www.uth.tmc.edu/circle/or from the website of the Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition, http://www.tecec.org.

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