Christopher Pierce Brown & Beth Smith Feger 
RIGOROUS DAP in the Early Years [EPUB ebook] 
From Theory to Practice

RIGOROUS DAP in the Early Years: From Theory to Practice provides teachers with a roadmap for teaching that helps children meet academic expectations and maintains focus on the appropriate development of the whole child. A construct of eleven practices, RIGOROUS DAP supplies teachers with strategies for 1) making instructional decisions that meet the needs of the individual child; 2) sustaining culturally relevant practices; 3) engaging stakeholders in conversations about educating young children for school success through practices that attend to their individual, sociocultural, and developmental needs; and 4) ensuring all children experience high-level learning and succeed in school.
The eleven practices comprising the construct are:

• R eaching all children


• I ntegrating content areas


• G rowing as a community


• O ffering choices


• R evisiting new content


• O ffering challenges


• U nderstanding each learner


• S eeing the whole child
  


• D ifferentiating instruction


• A ssessing constantly


• P ushing every child forward

An academically rigorous learning environment allows all children to learn at high levels through hands-on learning experiences that address the whole child and connect to the child’s world in and out of school. A developmentally appropriate learning environment considers the children’s developmental, cognitive, social, emotional, linguistic, and physical development, as well as the sociocultural worlds in which they live.

Over de auteur

Christopher Pierce Brown, Ph D—a former preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade teacher—is a professor of curriculum and instruction in early childhood education at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow of the Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professorship in Early Childhood Education. He earned a BA in philosophy from the University of the South, an MA in curriculum and instruction from New Mexico State University, and a Ph D in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin. Among other awards, he was given the Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator Award from NAEYC in 2014 and the Regents’ Outstanding Teacher Award from the University of Texas in 2013.