Deb J Curtis

Reflecting Children's Lives: A Handbook for Planning Child-Centered Curriculum

The Art of Awareness: How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching

Training Teachers: A Harvest of Theory and Practice

Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments

Learning Together With Young Children: A Curriculum Framework for Reflective Teachers

Reflecting Children's Lives: A Handbook for Planning Child-Centered Curriculum

Noted early childhood educators and authors of Training Teachers: A Harvest of Theory and Practice, Deb Curtis and Margie Carter present practical ideas in this thoughtful and beautiful handbook which makes the complex task of planning a child-centered curriculum easier. Learn how to make theme plan...

The Art of Awareness, Second Edition: How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching

The art of observing children is more than merely the act of watching themit is also using what you see and hear to craft new opportunities in your classroom. This resource provides a wealth of inspiration and practice. It will help you learn to observe in new ways. You’ll witness children’s remarka...

Reflecting in Communities of Practice: A Workbook for Early Childhood Educators

Enhance the quality of your teaching with collaborative, critical, and reflective thinkingTeaching young children is complex work. While you manage the day-to-day events that unfold in your classroom you also have to keep up with the demands of assessment and documentation. With all these challenges...

Reflecting Children's Lives: A Handbook for Planning Your Child-Centered Curriculum

Make the complex task of creating a child-centered curriculum easier with the practical guidelines and ideas in this updated and expanded handbook. Learn how to sharpen your observation and documentation skills, set up your space, and transform your teaching to reflect children’s interests and needs...

Learning Together with Young Children by Deb Curtis/Margie Carter (Nov 1 2007)

The Visionary Director, Second Edition: A Handbook for Dreaming, Organizing, and Improvising in Your Center

An inspiring and practical guide to creating a larger vision in early child care, this popular professional development tool has been thoroughly revised and offers a concrete framework for organizing an early childhood center director's ideas and work. Updated and expanded, it reflects new requireme...

The Art of Awareness: How Observation Can Transform Your Teaching

Observing children closely provides a new way of thinking about learning and teaching, a way of making children visible as they are, not just as we want them to be. Featuring nine Observation Study Sessions, this book offers ideas, activities, and experiences, as opposed to just a set of checklists ...

Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments

Give children wondrous places to learn and grow! Drawing inspiration from a variety of approaches—from Waldorf to Montessori to Reggio to Greenman, Prescott, and Olds—the authors outline hundreds of ways to create healthy and inviting physical, social, and emotional environments for children in chil...