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Curriculum & Instruction

EDCI Where Teachers Come to Learn

Josh Thompson PhD

Assistant Professor Early Childhood Education

josh_thompson@tamu-commerce.edu

903-468-8627

An Introduction to the Professor .pps

 Summer 2008 Course Webpages ELED 545 ECE 566 ECE 358 ELED 524
  Textbook List Fall 2008  
http://browsertuneup.pearsoncmg.com/browser_tuneup.html

Previous Course WebPages      Resource Links

What happens when we speak with children? How does language use affect transmission of culture from one generation to the next? Following Naomi Baron's (1990) structure of Five Language Functions (affection, control, information, pedagogy, and social exchange), my research examines the effectiveness of this structure to describe the early language environment(s) of young children.  

Research

Capturing Teacher Talk: ppt, rtf, Outline.rtf

Family Literacy Packs.rtf

Family Literacy Packs

Words at Work

Publications

Thompson & Leeds (2006) Infant Crying: To Soothe or Not to Soothe.doc. Montessori Life: Journal of the American Montessori Society, v18 n1 pp 26-31. 

Leeds & Thompson (2005) Tears as Tools.rtf Early Years: Journal of Texas Association for the Education of Young Children, v27 n1 pp5-6. 

(2003) Hundred Language Zoo.doc Dimensions of Early Childhood v31 n1 pp13-20

Essays

(October 2005) Praying With Jesus.rtf      Traveling with Jesus.rtf

(June 9, 2005) A Birthday Story.rtf 

Poems, Songs, & Nursery Rhymes

Presentations

BMj4 Research Track

Lincoln (2008)Naturalistic Inquiry

Thompson Word@Work

Feb 7, 2008 What language is good for: Looking at how teachers use language to do things. SERA.pdf New Orleans

Nov 7, 2007 Men Teaching NAEYC Chicago

Oct 14, 2007 Words @ Work.ppt American Montessori Society, Irvine, CA

July 26, 2007 Language @ Work and MicroEthnography 25th Annual Nat'l Conference of Christian Montessori Fellowship San Antonio

June 5, 2007 Montessori Primer UNT Denton Doctoral Class on Int'l Education Dr. George Morrison

Feb 8, 2007 MicroEthnography Observation SERA San Antonio

Nov 13, 2006 Singing Your Way Through Current Research Best Practices Symposium for English Language Learners (ELL) Commerce

 

Associations

North Texas Men in Education Fellowship

American Montessori Society 

Men Teach

National Association for the Education of Young Children

American Educational Research Association

Association for Childhood Education International 

Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

 

 

Resource Links                    Books! JT's Current Reading List

Vita 2007.doc

Vita 2007 .pdf

Photographs
JT's Families
 

© 2008 Josh Thompson PhD 
Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education  
Department of Curriculum & Instruction
College of Education and Human Services 
Texas A&M University-Commerce   
e-mail: Josh_Thompson@TAMU-Commerce.edu 
office: Ed South 221
office address: P.O. Box 3011 Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
office: 903-468-8627
mobile: 214-663-6102
home: 972-291-6710

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