Charlotte Stetson is a trainer, consultant, and author. She has been active in the field of Early Childhood Education for more than 30 years. She began teaching after receiving a Masters Degree from Lesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1973. Over a span of 25 years, she taught children ranging in age from 18 months to 8 years in varied settings, including Head Start, a college-based child development center, and public schools. Currently, she works with preschool and elementary school teachers in the areas of developmentally appropriate curriculum, instruction, and assessment. She is a senior member of The Work Sampling System's national faculty and The Creative Curriculum’s staff development network. She has been a contributing author of Building the Primary Classroom (Dodge, Jablon, and Bickart; Teaching Strategies Inc.) and Work Sampling in the Classroom (Dichtelmiller, Jablon, Dorfman, Marsden, and Meisels; Pearson Early Learning). She co-authored Winning Ways to Learn, a two-volume set of parenting guides. (Pearson Early Learning) She is the principal author of three children’s literature-based curricula published by the Vermont Center for the Book: You Can Count on Mother Goose, Mother Goose Cares About Math and Science, and Mother Goose Cares About Social Studies. Most recently, she has been the principal author of The Creative Curriculum Study Starters, curricular materials to support Creative Curriculum implementation, and is co-directing the production of a new video/DVD about The Creative Curriculum. |