Core Conditions, Conflict, and Challenges in Early Childhood Teaming

Abstract

It's a sunny fall day at a child care center on the North Side of Chicago A teacher of 4-year-olds helps some of the children sort by shape the colored leaves they have just collected The children carefully brace as he pulls himself up at the water table to examine, with Caitlin and Jonah, the properties of In a dramatic play area, Molly pulls on a long ruffled silk slip while Ronald, compare the leaves with those in a large picture book An assistant teacher adjusts Desmond's full-body warm water and bubbles a baby cap perched on his head, curls up on a doll bed with his feet hanging over the end “Hurry up,” shouts Martina, who is wearing a football helmet, “we'll be late” Both teachers seem well aware of the events within the classroom as other children build with blocks or paint at the double easel.