Child and Adolescent Development in Your Classroom, Topical Approach

This edition is available with MindTap®, the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage students and transform them into classroom-ready, reflective teachers. Video cases invite student reflection on real classroom situations dealing with various stages of development. Scenarios ask students to apply chapter concepts and theories to create an artifact that improves teaching and learning. Quizzes help students identify areas where they misunderstood key topics and link back to the related content in the chapter to improve their understanding.

This textbook covers child development from birth through adolescence, addressing physical, cognitive, social and emotional domains of development, with special emphasis on socio-emotional well-being. A topical approach allows a more effective description of the range of behavior possible in a given domain.

The text applies human development concepts to teaching, providing a strong bridge between current research and practice. Each topic has a section on research-based strategies to use in the classroom, including vignettes describing authentic classroom situations to further assist students in applying the material. In addition, a Reflections on Practice: My Teaching feature encourages teachers to think about how their behavior affects children's development while field observation assignments help them apply the science to children's experiences in the classroom.

A Standards Correlation Grid on the inside front and back covers provide alignment of topics with INTASC (2013) and NAEYC (2020) standards, allowing students to quickly locate standards and licensure exam guidelines throughout the text and connect them with what they are learning.

Group and individual diversity issues concerning gender, socioeconomic status and ethnicity are integrated throughout the text.

Strongly research-based with up-to-date scholarship throughout, the new edition includes the latest insights into such topics as student-teacher relationships, adolescent risk taking, collectivism, spanking, disproportionate punishment of youth of color, effective study strategies, learning disabilities and dyslexia, gender identity, autism spectrum, cyberbullying, epigenetics, LGBTQI students, parents and teachers, obesity, social media, assessing accuracy of internet sources, poverty and income equality, use of electronic devices, use of social media and student mental health.

Resources from the text, such as the Summary of Age Trends in each chapter, are available in MindTap® for students to download and use in their future classrooms. Identified as Professional Resource Downloads, these documents, figures and tables allow students to begin developing or adding to their personal libraries of professional tools for the classroom.