Gryphon House, Inc. launches Picturing the Project Approach, a guide to creative explorations through projects in early learning. The project approach helps preschool and kindergarten teachers develop their students’ understanding of real-world interests, while sharpening their problem-solving skills.
The book by Sylvia C. Chard, Yvonne Kogan, and Carmen A. Castillo leads teachers through a step-by-step procedure of incorporating the project approach in any toddler, preschool or elementary classroom. Aimed for teachers and caregivers of children ages 2–8, it explains how to involve children in digging deeply into intellectual and social experiences as they connect to and investigate authentic questions about the world around them.
“Analytical thinking and problem-solving skills are crucial to early childhood development and are much more engaging when students can relate to and interact with the problems presented,” said Chard. “Lilian Katz and I developed the project approach in 1989 to help teachers encourage deeper engagements in the classroom through real-world experiences while creating opportunities to stimulate growth and development outside of the classroom. This book enriches and further develops these ideas, with support from colleagues who work daily with children in classrooms.”
Picturing the Project Approach will be widely available September 1, 2017. The book is available for preorder now. To request a free excerpt or e-galley copy, contact ashleigh@ghbooks.com.
ISBN 978-0-87659-572-5; 120 pp.; PB and e-book; $29.95.
About the Authors
Dr. Sylvia C. Chard is professor emeritus of early childhood education at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she served as director of the laboratory school and the child study center and in the Department of Elementary Education. Dr. Chard also taught at various levels in schools from preschool through high school in England. Dr. Chard is coauthor with Lilian G. Katz and Yvonne Kogan of the book Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach 1989, 2000, 2014*. She coauthored From My Side: Being a Child with Yvonne Kogan. Since her retirement from the university in 2003, she has been engaged in consulting work with teachers in many parts of the world.
Yvonne Kogan is cofounder and academic principal of the early childhood and elementary departments of Eton School in Mexico City. She is a consultant on the project approach for several schools in Mexico and abroad. Her published works include From My Side: Being a Child and Engaging Children’s Minds: The Project Approach, Third Edition, 2014.
For more than twenty years, Carmen A. Castillo has held several positions as a teacher and principal. Currently, she is an educational consultant and trainer for schools in Mexico and abroad. She is also a presenter at national and international conferences.
About Gryphon House, Inc.
Gryphon House, Inc., is an award-winning publisher of resource books for parents and teachers of children from birth through age eight. Filled with developmentally appropriate and easy-to-use strategies, Gryphon House books provide parents and teachers with the tools they need to bring the joy of learning to young children.
*Yvonne Kogan co-authored Engaging Children's Minds: The Project Approach, Third Edition, 2014.
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