User's Guide to the Early Language & Literacy Classroom Observation - Softcover

Christopher E. Smith, M.A., is a research project coordinator at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He has conducted numerous staff trainings and workshops as a consultant to schools and agencies across the U.S. He is presently working on research that explores the relationships between biological setting events and problem behavior.

Louisa Anastasopoulos, M.P.P., has extensive experience conducting classroom observations, child assessments, and interviews with teachers and parents. Her work has dealt with examinations of classroom quality as well as with early language and literacy. She has been instrumental in the design of teacher and parent interview protocols and has spent a great deal of time interacting with preschool teachers and staff. Her bilingual expertise has contributed to her ability to work with a wide variety of teachers and parents. Ms. Anastasopoulos holds a master of public policy, with a focus on education policy, from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute.

The perfect tool . . . for those of us who seek to close the opportunity-to-learn gap during the early learning years. --Maurice Sykes, Executive Director, Early Childhood Leadership Institute

An organizing and validating instrument that helps classrooms to transform into zones of inquiry and conscious communication. --Cynthia P Gehrie, Ph.D., Ethnographer, Consultant for Documentation and Professional Development, Early Reading First grant, Northeastern Illinois University

This exemplary resource is a must have . . . I use it all the time and find the data it provides to be valid and reliable indices of the early childhood classroom environment. --Laura Justice, Ph.D., Professor, College of Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University