Preschool Kindergarten category: 2281 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Around the world, school districts and institutions are exploring ways to provide quality education to their students. With this, there is a deeper need for multiculturalism in classrooms, as many students are from varying cultures and speak different languages. Early Childhood Education From an Intercultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This international handbook gives a comprehensive overview of findings from longstanding and contemporary research, theory, and practices in early childhood education in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. The first volume of the handbook addresses theory, methodology, and the research activities...
Parents as Partners
Positive Relationships in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
It is a widely acknowledged fact that if parents are involved in their child's early learning there is a positive impact on development and later school achievement. This title looks at how to build a positive relationship with the parents of children in your care, whether you work in a group or home...
Groups to Facilitate Motor and Language Skills with Classroom Materials
Teachers Resource Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Groups for early childhood and elementary classroom (can be adjusted for any age/ability group) to facilitate fine motor, gross motor, language and social skills
Uses classroom materials
Includes discussion on Common Core Standards
The books in this collection are designed to meet the needs...
Diversity and Inclusion in Early Childhood
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Covering a wide range of concepts and taking a broader perspective of what inclusion entail, this book offers an overview of current research, policy and practice in diversity and inclusion in the early years. It is a clear introduction to what inclusive practice means for those working with young...
Understanding Schemas in Young Children
Again! Again!
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
What are schemas and why do they matter? Again! Again! provides an introduction to understanding and supporting schemas and schema play in young children. Practitioners will find an overview of schemas with guidance on where they fit within the EYFS. There are examples of schemas, with illustrations...
Enabling Environments in the Early Years
Making provision for high quality and challenging learning experiences in early years settings
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
This title focuses on how to ensure your setting's physical space and equipment provides the most challenging and interesting environment for children in your care. This book covers: Assessing and improving the learning environment, making the most of your outdoor space and inclusive settings.
by Sandra Brown, Shirley Cleave
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This very practical book offers advice for teachers. The authors pinpoint the particular educational needs of four year olds and give advice on meeting them together with positive examples of good practice. Areas covered include staffing, space, equipment and materials, teaching styles and monitoring progress. This is the essential aid to teaching four year olds.
Special Educational Needs in Practice (Revised Edition)
A step-by-step guide to developing a SEN inclusion policy and delivering the requirements of Early Years Action Plus
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Special Educational Needs in Practice has been revised so as to consider all professionals involved with working with children with special needs. This edition covers the role and responsibility of the SENCO, but also outlines procedures and suggests numerous strategies for everyone working in the field....
Risk, Challenge and Adventure in the Early Years
A practical guide to exploring and extending learning outdoors
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
What is the difference between ‘risk’ and ‘danger’? What can children learn from taking risks? How can you provide key experiences for children and ensure their safety outdoors?
Young children will naturally seek out challenges and take risks and this is crucial to their overall development....
Onwards and Upwards
Supporting the transition to Key Stage One
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
How can teachers ensure that the transition from the Early Years Foundation Stage to Key Stage One is a positive experience for children? What are the issues for children, parents and teachers and how should teachers respond to these? This book introduces the concept of transition and identifies the key problem areas for children and adults fo
Developmental Education for Young Children
Concept, Practice and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Developmental Education is an approach to education in school that aims at promoting children’s cultural development and their abilities to participate autonomously and well-informed in the cultural practices of their community. From the point of view of Cultural-historical Activity theory (CHAT),...
How to Handle Hard-to-Handle Preschoolers
A Guide for Early Childhood Educators
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2009
Discover the key to better management of children’s challenging behaviors!
This book provides educators of children ages 2 to 5 with strategies, tips, and techniques for managing various behavioral challenges and learning disabilities. Packed with hundreds of easy-to-implement ideas, this...
Father Involvement in Young Children’s Lives
A Global Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
This vital addition to Springer’s ‘Educating the Young Child’ series addresses gaps in the literature on father involvement in the lives of young children, a topic with a fast-rising profile in today’s world of female breadwinners and single-parent households. While the significant body of...