Creating Environments for Learning + Video-enhanced Pearson Etext Access Card: Birth to Age Eight

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Julie Bullard is a professor and director of the Early Childhood Education program at the University of Montana Western. During her 35 years in the early childhood field, she has been a preschool and elementary teacher, childcare director, and Head Start administrator. For over 25 years, she has taught adults both online and face-to-face who were receiving CDAs, associate degrees, and bachelor’s degrees in early childhood, as well as students receiving master’s degrees in curriculum and instruction. Julie has had a passion for the importance of the early learning environment since completing coursework in architecture more than 30 years ago, and also has a special interest in curricular standards, serving on several state and national committees that are working on developing and implementing standards using play-based curriculum. She has been on the National Education Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Professional Development Panel, a national reviewer of early childhood higher education programs, and on an oversight committee for NAEYC/NCATE accreditation. Julie has served on an NAEYC committee to revise the national early childhood higher education standards, and is currently on the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education Board of Examiners (NCATE BOE), and on the editorial board for the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education.  She has been involved in the development of the Montana early childhood knowledge base, infant-toddler guidelines, preschool guidelines, kindergarten standards, and early childhood and elementary higher education standards. Julie was recently named the 2011 Carnegie Professor of the Year for Montana. 

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The Second Edition of Julie Bullard s Creating Environments for Learning: Birth to Age Eight is a powerful resource for today s early childhood professionals that helps students learn the basic information on environments and curriculum, and see environmental and curricular possibilities in practice -developmental and learning theories, current research, curriculum standards and outcomes, children s interests and their motivation to play, children s diversity, assessment of learning, and evaluation of the environment.  It also contains a wealth of practical ideas and tips, lists of materials, and engaging vignettes and examples from the author s vast classroom experience. This new edition enhances students understanding of curriculum by improving upon how curriculum is developed, and by teaching how to advocate and/or design a play-based curriculum, preparing them to use the latest research knowledge as they do so. Still organized by chapters on centers, this text helps pre-service and practicing teachers learn to create, maintain, and enrich indoor and outdoor learning environments to support children s development from birth to age 8.  This is a must-have book for any college course or program that wants its teachers to know how to intentionally set up engaging and appropriately challenging early childhood learning environments and to understand the evidence and reasons for why they re doing it. 

Pearson congratulates Dr. Julie Bullard on being awarded the 2011 Carnegie Professor of the Year for Montana. 

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