Pam Schiller

Start Smart, Revised, offers simple, straightforward information and ideas to boost brain power with active exploration, repetition, sensory discovery, laughter, and more. Reflecting the latest research about how children learn, each chapter describes how and why the brain develops, and explains mostrar más how you can use the activities to give children the best foundation for future learning. Pam Schiller, PhD, is a freelance early childhood author and consultant. She is the former vice president for the Early, Childhood Division at McGraw-Hill Materials/McGraw-Hill Publishers, and is past president of the Southern Early Childhood Association and Texas Association for the Education of Young Children. She served as head of the Early Childhood Department at the University of Houston, where she also directed the Lab School. Pam is a highly sought-after speaker, and has given many presentations for organizations such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Southern Early Childhood Association, Association for Childhood Education International, and the International Reading Association. She has written many articles for early childhood journals, including Child Care Information Exchange and Texas Child Care Quarterly. Pam is the author of five early childhood curriculums, eleven children's books, and more than thirty teacher and parent resource books. She lives in Cypress, Texas. mostrar menos