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Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale By Thelma HarmsRichard M. CliffordDebby Cryer ( Teachers College Press )
Release Date: 1998-01
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List Price: $12.95
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Product Description
The ECERS -- R has been expanded to 43 items and includes many improvements that will make this widely used resource even more valuable to early educators. Examples of new items include: Interaction items, such as staff-child interactions, interactions among children, and discipline -- Curriculum items, such as nature/science and math/number -- Health and Safety items -- More inclusive and culturally sensitive indicators for many items -- More items focusing on staff needs -- and much more. The scale is conveniently organized under seven categories: Space and Furnishings, Personal Care Routines, Language-Reasoning, Activities, Interactions, Program Structure, Parents and Staff.
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 Preschool Rating Scales
Quick delivery. This item is used to measure the quality of our preschool early education programs.
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Ask first
I got this book for Intro to Early Ed class. After I got it the instructor said we can share a book. Find out if you can share it first. We have not used it yet but we are only in our 4th week of a 16 week class. The book is not that expensive.
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 A Flawed, But Useful Instrument ( jamal5000 )
I underwent ECERS-R evaluation using this same instrument when I worked in a poor, predominantly Black elementary school. I have concluded that this instrument, though thorough and insightful, somewhat downwardly grades poverty-stricken classrooms by pointing out what they don't have (and often can't get due to financial constraints). On the other hand, it rewards more affluent school districts due to their ability to supply more materials, resources, and equipment.
Even though I find it easy to follow, it allows way too much subjectivity for the assessing agent. How you rate my DISCIPLINE and STAFF-CHILD INTERACTIONS would depend on your experiences as a teacher in a certain cultural context. An assessor who mastered his classroom managing skills under the guise of a school district in a community devoted to authoritative discpline may misinterpret the cues in an authoritarian-dominated classroom as "inappropriate". In reality, appropriateness and inappropriateness depend on one's cultural context even with buttressing empircal research. For some people, authoritative classroom management allows children to "run wild", "control the classroom", and "do what they want to do too much".
To ensure the proper use of the instrument, administrators should:
1. Ensure that his teachers possess a copy of the ALL ABOUT THE ECERS-R companion book which details step-by-step how to put together an ECERS-R classroom.
2. BEFORE the official assessment, direct teachers to do an ACCURATE, well-guided, appropriately-paced self-study of their classroom.
3. BEFORE the official assessment, support the teacher's suggestions and requests to pull their classrooms up to ECERS-R standards.
4. BEFORE the official assessment, stay mindful of the things that a teacher can control and which things the principal can only control.
5. AFTER the official assessment, support the teacher's need to fix deficiencies.
6. AFTER the official assessment, make a concerted effort to fix the deficiencies that stand out of the teacher's hands.
In the end, all early childhood professionals should realize that a developmentally appropriate classroom doesn't begin and end with the ECERS-R despite its well-earned reputation.
Please use proper, realistic discernment.
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A must have for any preschool environment
This book helps truly look at your program and how it meets the needs of the children in your program. It gives a standard that we should all hold to when caring for young children.
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