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Education
Expert Launches E-Book for Parents
to Use in Boosting Child’s Brainpower
FT. LAUDERDALE,
Fla. – May 8, 2006
– Following the premise that the first six years of
a child’s life are the magic years of learning, a new
step-by-step guide for parents drives home the message that
every parent should be their child’s first and most
important teacher. Joseph D. Randazzo, an early childhood
education expert, has developed a step-by-step guide for parents
to create the ideal learning environment for kids in their
own home. The innovative guide, introduced in CD format, includes
more than 200 activities for parents to boost their child’s
brainpower.
“I created
this hands-on program as a way of bringing into the home the
basic precepts of the Montessori learning method because if
every parent becomes a teacher then every child becomes a
successful learner,” said Randazzo, a former superintendent
of schools and university dean. “To reform our schools,
we must start educational initiatives in every American home
as soon as our infants are born.”
The Montessori
method is an approach to learning advocated by Dr. Maria Montessori.
The method, taught at many private preschools and elementary
schools, emphasizes creating a well-planned and structured
environment that addresses the child’s individual and
cultural needs.
Joseph D. Randazzo,
Ed.D., has spent most of his life teaching and researching
the learning styles of young children. The author of “The
Case for Early Learning,” Randazzo was an Associate
Superintendent of Schools
in Hartford, Connecticut, when he was recruited to start the
school center at Nova University in the early 70s. While at
Nova, he founded the University Schools in Davie and
Coral Springs and taught teachers at the graduate level. He
also founded the Randazzo/Montessori School in Coconut Creek,
Florida, where much of the “Smart-Start” lessons
have been practiced and honed.
The Randazzo/Montessori Smart-Start Learning
System, a parenting series for home and school use, is available
at www.smartstartkids.com. The system includes an introductory
book, “Renaissance Child - Nurture the Genius in Your Young Child” and a companion parenting manual, “The
Explore and Learn Years…Birth to Age 3.” Additional
parent teaching/learning kits for various age groups are planned.
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Dr. Joseph D. Randazzo
Author
Randazzo began his lifelong journey
in education as a one-room schoolteacher in 1952. He has studied
the Montessori elementary training in Bergamo, Italy, as well
as the L’ecole Maternelle early learning preschools
of France and the Reggio-Emilia preschools in Italy. Randazzo
earned his doctorate in education from Nova Southeastern University
and his master’s and undergraduate degrees from the
University of Connecticut. He earned a master’s from
the American International College and has taught at the University
of Hartford.
Randazzo, a frequent lecturer on early learning styles, was
the keynote speaker at the Association Montessori Internationale
World Conference in 1988. He retired in 1993 from what is
now Nova Southeastern University and began writing extensively
about early learning methods and developing the “Smart-Start
Early Learning Systems for Home and School.”
“Smart-Start” provides
parents with educational materials in the framework of a specially
designed learning curriculum to assist them in shaping their
children’s education at home during the critical years
of their young lives, from birth to age six.
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