Preschool category: 2281 books
After the Crisis
Using Storybooks to Help Children Cope
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Children who experience a traumatic crisis cannot process their feelings without adult support, and it can be hard for teachers to know how to help. After the Crisis provides teachers with tools to help children who have been through a trauma, such as homelessness, a natural disaster, or the death...
Socially Strong, Emotionally Secure
50 Activities to Promote Resilience in Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Now more than ever, adults must help children develop the skills necessary to navigate successfully through life. By focusing on building social and emotional strength, adults increase children's resilience and prepare them to handle the challenges in life. The strategies and activities in Socially...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This book investigates the unique and dynamic approaches to key issues of changing images of child and childhood, by different countries in the Asia-Pacific. Key concepts considered are re-conceptualizing early childhood education and care, re-eaxming early learning standards and redefining professionalism....
The Unscripted Classroom
Emergent Curriculum in Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Inspires early childhood educators to use innovative practices through stories from real teachers who use emergent curriculum in their classrooms.
Lead the Way
24 Lessons in Leadership for After School Program Directors
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Lead the Way provides short, self-guided overviews that both aspiring and practicing after school professionals need to thrive in their roles. The 24 fundamental insights and strategies can be used as professional development topics with after school program staff, laying the foundation for the program to recruit, retain, and grown effective leaders.
Early Childhood Literacy Teachers in High Poverty Schools
A Study of Courage and Caring
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Much has been written about the failure of White American public school teachers to effectively teach low-income children of color to read and write. Scholars have offered numerous explanations for this failure, including the reluctance of teacher preparation programs to address cultural competence...
by Elizabeth Purcell
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Chuck Chirp is afraid to come out of the birdhouse because he is a different color, but the puppets at Buttercup Cottage help him to realize it's not important what color you are, but what kind of person you are.
Early Learning Standards and Staff Development
Best Practices in the Face of Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Early Learning Standards and Staff Development helps directors and trainers guide early childhood staff to fulfill learning standards, often without compromising best practices. Written by respected consultants Gaye Gronlund and Marlyn James, it is one of few books on staff development in the area...
Assisting Young Children Caught in Disasters
Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This volume discusses 14 different types of disasters and their implications on the social, emotional and academic development of young children, from birth through age eight. It focuses on human-related crises and disasters such as community violence exposure; war and terrorism; life in military...
Reflective Playwork
For All Who Work with Children
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In a world where we are ever seeking to protect our children and to encourage their educational progress, it is often overlooked that the need for play is as important as the need for food and sleep. Drawing on playwork methodology, theory and practice, this extensively revised new edition of Reflective...
Teaching Difficult Students
Blue Jays in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2004
Here is an easy-to-read and inspiring text that explores the nature of young people and the effects traditional discipline strategies have on them. The author recommends humanistic approaches that promote personal growth in students rather than the common system of reward and punishment that aggravates...
Fostering Creativity
The Full Day Kindergarten Classroom in Ontario: Learning Through Inquiry and Play and Its Implications for Child Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Dr. Karias development of the EYE (Early Years Education) Model serves to highlight essential elements for quality Full Day Kindergarten learning and through her research and teaching experience she is able to take a closer look at how to build more creativity into the lives of children. By encouraging...
Diversities in Early Childhood Education
Rethinking and Doing
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This collection, edited by leaders in the field of early childhood and multicultural education, is a valuable resource for those studying and working with young children. Chapters emphasize the relationship between theory, research, and practice, and provide illustrations of equitable and inclusive...
Don't Leave the Story in the Book
Using Literature to Guide Inquiry in Early Childhood Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Passion and wonder are in short supply in schools these days. If you want to bring powerful stories into your classroom that inspire curiosity and questions, spark deep thinking and cultivate thoughtful conversations, embrace this book!” —Anne Goudvis, consultant and author“Don’t...