Preschool category: 2281 books
Young Children and Families in the Information Age
Applications of Technology in Early Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This edited book presents the most recent theory, research and practice on information and technology literacy as it relates to the education of young children. Because computers have made it so easy to disseminate information, the amount of available information has grown at an exponential rate,...
by Nancy L. Cappelloni
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Put children on a path to success!
Filled with photos and tools for practice, this is one of the rare resources to combine the latest research with immediately useable ideas and professional development support to help you equip our youngest students for formal schooling. This ready guidebook...
Hands On, Minds On
How Executive Function, Motor, and Spatial Skills Foster School Readiness
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A growing body of research indicates that three foundational cognitive skills—executive function, motor skills, and spatial skills—form the basis for children to make a strong academic, behavioral, and social transition to formal school. Given inequitable early learning environments or “opportunity...
by Ros Bayley, Sally Featherstone
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Developing children as independent learners starts in the early years. Scientific evidence as well as the experience of experts confirms that children between three and six learn most effectively by doing. This work looks at the theory of independent learning and describes how practitioners can plan and resource the early years.
by Karen Constable
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
This easy-to-read series provides an introduction to some of the most important early years philosophies and shows how they can be incorporated into your setting. Each book provides:
an outline of the background to the approach
clear explanations of the relevance to contemporary thinking
suggestions...
Every Child Can Learn
Using learning tools and play to help children with Developmental Delay
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2008
Includes CD-Rom
Based on the authors' own clinical practice and extensive experience in the field, this book is a creative and flexible aid to helping children with learning difficulties.
Their accessible and positive approach, 'Functional Learning', focuses on helping...
by Miriam Beloglovsky, Lisa Daly
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Go beyond reading about early learning theories and see what they look like in action in modern programs and teacher practices. With classroom vignettes and colorful photographs, this book makes the works of Jean Piaget, Erik Erikson, Lev Vygotsky, Abraham Maslow, John Dewey, Howard Gardner, and Louise...
The Child Care Director's Complete Guide
What You Need to Manage and Lead
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Use this step-by-step guide to becoming an effective and successful child care director or administrator in today’s early childhood education environment. With interviews gathered from program thirty-two directors across the country, this book is a comprehensive guide to becoming the best director...
Helping Children Who Yearn for Someone They Love
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This is a guidebook to help children who: "are missing someone too much or suffer from separation anxiety"; are obsessed with their absent parent "yearn for a parent who: has died; seems unreachable, although she is right there; or is loving one minute and indifferent, cold or abusive the next". They yearn because they have been taken into care, fostered or adopted.
Journeys
Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Practices through Pedagogical Narration
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Inspired by the idea of documentation as a valuable tool for making learning visible, pedagogical narration offers an opportunity to move beyond checklists and quick answers to a more complex understanding of how children learn, and how teachers might facilitate and support that learning in innovative...
Think About It!
Thinking Skills Activities for Years 3 and 4
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Engage pupils' interest and imagination with these thirty-six stand-alone lesson plans. These thought-provoking activities are suitable for pupils of all abilities and will also help improve their literacy skills. Includes:
differentiation and extension activities
time-saving photocopiable resources
easy-to-use flexible lesson plans.
Implementing the Every Child Matters Strategy
The Essential Guide for School Leaders and Managers
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Implementing the Every Child Matters Strategy is a comprehensive resource for senior leaders, managers of Every Child Matters (ECM) and teachers responsible for leading the government’s ECM strategy in primary and secondary schools and other education settings such as Academies, Sixth Form Colleges,...
Parental Involvement on Children’s Education
What Works in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
This book is based on the empirical work of a large-scale project to investigate the possible impacts of diversified forms of parental involvement on children and school by first exploring through a series of ethnographic case studies how principals, teachers and parents perceive and act on parental...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
'[T]his book has been well planned and provides information which is relevant for students and teachers alike in supporting teaching and learning. In particular, the practical aspects of group tasks and discussion points enable the reader to develop their reflective skills through the knowledge gained'...