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This program explores the thinking and feelings of experienced and well-trained teachers who work with children from diverse populations. The teachers explain what they think about guidance and discipline and the influences on them in determining what they consider as acceptable or challenging behavior.
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You will see concrete examples of how your school can move away from a one-size-fits-all professional development model to create an authentic learning environment that meets the needs of individual teachers. The book features chapters focusing on: implementing an instructional coaching model -- establishing study groups among teachers -- using observation as a means to model effective instruction -- going deeper with discussion through the use of...
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"In Mentoring Early Childhood Educators, Carol Hillman shares an innovative, collaborative supervisory model that gives preservice and novice teachers the opportunity to discover what real classroom look and feel like while they develop the skills and thoughtfulness to work through both everyday issues and the more difficult problems of practice. From your first meeting with a new teacher to end-of-year goodbyes, Hillman's program supports quality...
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"The key to observing children, state authors Deb Curtis and Margie Carter in The Art of Awareness, is using observation as more than just a teaching technique. Observing children closely provides a new way of thinking about learning and teaching, a way of making children visible as they are, not just as we want them to be. Observant teachers will find more than techniques for watching or taking notes about children--they will discover a different...
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"This comprehensive text gives pre-service early childhood educators a balanced, accessible introduction to early childhood education that also covers the content areas. It shows readers how to teach and care for children by identifying and focusing on five essential elements: understanding child development, play, guidance, working with families, and diversity. Each essential element is addressed in its own separate chapter and then explored at a...
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This thoughtful book challenges the standard assessment process that is commonly employed within the context of early years provision. For any practitioners working in early years setting this is a powerful and exciting book that helps to remind us that the child must be placed centrally within the assessment process, not as a recipient but as a proactive contributor to the situation.
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This book provides an insightful reflection on contemporary issues & theories underpinning early childhood education. The essays, penned by an international group of educators, are both critical & transformative, offering new insights on the practices & policies within early childhood education.
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Parent partnerships are an essential factor in every successful early childhood program. Discover communication strategies to engage the family unit with your service, to integrate the principles of early childhood care and education between home and centre.Among the communication tools and strategies covered are: * newsletters * bulletin boards * parent conferences * special events * family-to-family support networks.
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(Producer) "The nation's children are everybody's future, and what happens in those first three years, before school, really, really matters to that future," says child development expert Penelope Leach. In this program, ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer reports on the neurological connections that form in a child's brain during pregnancy and early childhood and the long-term effects of sensory stimulation and deprivation during those formative periods....
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Demonstrates how key learning theories pan out in practice, with the aid of photographs, case studies and activities. Divided into three main sections, MacBlain identifies the key theorists in early childhood, past and present, before linking them to the main issues and developments that face early years practitioners today. An explanation of each key theorist is guided by a clear structure, including: links to other theorists; strengths and weaknesses...
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Fundamentals captures the important changes occurring in early childhood education today and shows how they apply to teaching young children and to collaborating with parents and families. This textbook was designed to develop competent and confident early childhood education professionals, prepared to assume their professional roles in the ever-changing world of early childhood education.
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"Childhood is measured out in rhythms: jump rope chants, counting games, nursery rhymes. Not only are rhythm and rhyme just naturally appealing to children, but they are also great memory aids - making them the perfect teaching tools." "Here is a book of bright new ideas for using rhythm and rhyme in the preschool or early elementary classroom. From language skills to art appreciation, lessons will come alive with the help of verses, songs, and even...
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