Infant and Toddler Development and Responsive Program Planning: A Relationship-Based Approach (4th Edition), Paperback, 4 Edition by Wittmer, Donna S.

Paperback: 4 Edition
9780134450094
0134450094

Publication Date: 2017-01-13
Publisher: Pearson
Paperback : 576 pages
Edition: 4 Edition
Author: Wittmer, Donna S.
ISBN-10: 0134450094
ISBN-13: 9780134450094

Product description This book shows minimal signs of wear. Some pages may include limited notes and highlighting. About the Author Donna Wittmer has a PhD in Child, Family, and Community Studies from Syracuse University. She taught Behavioral Pediatrics at SUNY in Syracuse and developed a family ­centered Early Intervention program on the Onondaga Indian Nation. Beginning in 1990 she taught ECE/ECSE at the University of Colorado Denver for 17 years. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters for early childhood education journals and newsletters. She has given many presentations for NAEYC and ZERO to THREE. She is the coauthor of Infant and Toddler Development and Responsive Program Planning, 4th Edition, Endless Opportunities, and The Young Child. She is also the author of a ZERO to THREE book on infant/toddler peer interactions and relationships. For ten years she served on the leadership team of the Expanding Quality in Infant/Toddler Care in the state of Colorado. This group wrote and delivered training of trainer materials for infant/toddler specialists who then delivered the curriculum to over 1000 infant/toddler caregivers in Colorado. Sandra Petersen has a rich background in many facets of the early childhood field. Beginning with teaching preschool, then directing an on­site hospital child care center, providing early intervention services, providing infant­parent psychotherapy, directing Colorado’s early childhood professional development system, teaching numerous college courses, and working for ZERO TO THREE in the Early Head Start National Resource Center and the National Infant Toddler Child Care Initiative. Ms. Petersen was a Zero to Three Fellow. She is co­author of three college textbooks on infancy and early childhood published by Pearson; The Young Child: Prenatal through Age Eight, Endless Opportunities for Infant Toddler Curriculum: A Relationship-­Based Approach, and Infant and Toddler Development and Responsive Program Planning: A Relationship­-Based Approach. She is the author of Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups by ZERO TO THREE. She created and has taught the Special Needs session for the Program for Infant Toddler Care for over 20 years. She has a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology and completed doctoral coursework in Early Childhood Special Education at the University of California-Berkeley.