Early Childhood Education Subject Guide LRC@TCC

Scope: Information on early childhood, preschool and kindergarten education.

Call number areas to browse:
LB1101-1139 (child study)
LB1140-1489 (preschool education; kindergarten)

Keywords to search:
preschool, kindergarten, curricula, teaching, child study

Subjects to search (Library of Congress):
Early childhood education--activity programs
Early childhood education--curricula
Education, preschool
Education, kindergarten
Preschool teachers
Early childhood teachers

Books in our catalog: 
Gale Virtual Reference Library (r)
Browse the LB1101-1489 call number areas of the library collections.

Library Resources (r): 

Education Search Complete
ERIC

Teacher Resource Center
OmniFile Full Text Select

Videatives: See What Children Know

Internet Resources: 
Baldwin Library of Children's Literature, Digital Collection at the University of Florida includes over 2500 fully digitized children's books, published in the United States and Great Britain between 1850 and 1900.

ECAP Collaborative The Early Childhood and Parenting Collaborative at the University of Illinois is home to more than a dozen projects focused on the education, care, and parenting of young children.

EduHound.com Extensive collection of briefly annotated links for teachers, administrators, and parents, organized into categories, or browse an alphabetical subject/keyword list.

Earlychildhood.com Designed for the early childhood educator, this site features articles and Web links to assist teachers with curriculum planning for children from the infant/toddler ages to the kindergarten/primary grade level.

ERIC Educational Resource Center is a national information system funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide access to education literature and resources.

Exchange (Free Resources) For 27 years, Exchange has promoted the exchange of ideas among leaders in early childhood programs worldwide through its magazine, books, training products, training seminars, and international conferences.

PBS TeacherSource provides over 3000 lesson plans and activities searchable by subject and grade level.

Young Children (Beyond the Journal) is an award winning peer reviewed journal published bi-monthly by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. YC issues are organized around topical clusters that devote special attention to issues in the field of early childhood education.

The Center for Best Practices in Early Childhood Education 

Based at Western Illinois University, this center provides links/information on workshops, projects. conference handouts, training materials that will enable one to develop and promote practices to improve the educational opportunities for young children. 

http://www.wiu.edu/thecenter/  Based at Western Illinois University, this center provides links/information on workshops, projects. conference handouts, training materials that will enable one to develop and promote practices to improve the educational opportunities for young children.