Early Childhood Field Experience: Learning to Teach Well

About Ann GordonKathryn Browne

Kathryn Williams Browne is an Early Childhood Specialist who has been working in the early care and education field for more than 30 years. She graduated with honors from Stanford University earning a BA in Psychology/Child Development and later received an MA degree in Early Childhood Education from the University of Michigan. Her teaching experiences include: preschool parent-cooperative full-day childcare kindergarten first grade bilingual nursery school and 15 years at Stanfords Bing Nursery School. At the college-level she has taught a wide-range of Early Childhood Education and Psychology courses at Stanford University De Anza and Canada Colleges and is currently a tenured professor leading the Early Childhood Education Department at Skyline College in San Bruno CA.   Together with Ann Gordon she has co-authored four additional textbooks: Beginnings and Beyond: Foundations in ECE Eighth Edition (Cengage) and Early Childhood Learning Experience: Learning to Teach Well 2e (Pearson) and Beginning Essentials Second Edition (Wadsworth 2011) and Guiding Young children in a Diverse Society (Allyn & Bacon). Wearing many hats Browne is currently involved in a myriad of Early Childhood Education related roles. Currently she is the Coordinator of the Early Childhood Education Department at Skyline College and the San Mateo Region ECE Mentor Program; serves as the State Secretary of the California Community College Early Childhood Education Faculty Association (CCCECE); and is on the Steering Committee of CA Department of Educations Competencies Integration Project (CIP).   Ann Miles Gordon has been an early childhood professional for more than 40 years teaching young children parents and college students. She has taught in laboratory schools church-related centers private and public preschool and kindergarten  programs. She taught at the Bing Nursery School the laboratory school for Stanford Universitys Department of Psychology where she was a head teacher and lecturer in the Psychology Department. Gordon also served as an adjunct faculty member at several community colleges teaching the full gamut of early childhood courses. For 14 years she was the Executive Director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools where more than 1100 early childhood programs were a part of her network. Semi-retired Gordon is a hands-on grandmother of two.