Rigorous Dap in the Early Years: 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:

• Reaching all children
• Integrating content areas
• Growing as a community
• Offering choices
• Revisiting new content
• Offering challenges
• Understanding each learner
• Seeing the whole child

• Differentiating instruction
• Assessing constantly
• Pushing 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.

Author: Christopher Pierce Brown, Beth Smith Feger, Brian Nelson Mowry
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Published: 12/04/2018
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781605545585
ISBN10: 1605545589
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
- Education | Decision Making & Problem Solving
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials | General

About the Author
Brian Nelson Mowry is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin. He has 25 years of service as a teacher and teacher educator in the Austin Independent School District. He currently serves as a district-level instructional specialist developing curriculum as well as supporting and providing professional development for 700 preschool and kindergarten classroom teachers. Before this, he worked as a district-level mathematics specialist for grades K through 5 and spent 11 years as a bilingual preschool and kindergarten teacher in the Austin public schools.