Preschool Kindergarten category: 2281 books
Crayons and iPads
Learning and Teaching of Young Children in the Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Crayons and iPads examines the use of digital technology in the early stages of child development, and the way in which learning techniques have evolved in classrooms across the world.
Harwood explores how tablets can be used to provoke, ignite and excite children’s interest in the world...
Tend the Olive, Water the Vine
Globalization and the Negotiation of Early Childhood in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
Current international development wisdom promotes the inclusion of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in nationallevel policy making, in the interest of strengthening statecivil society relationships; supporting locally driven, culturallysensitive development; and contributing to program and policy...
by Damien Fitzgerald, Janet Kay
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Previously known as Baldock: Understanding Early Years Policy is in its Fourth Edition. This best-selling textbook continues to provide fully updated coverage of all the latest developments in early years policy such as the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), SEND Code of Practice 0-25 years...
Working with Children, Young People and Families
A course book for Foundation Degrees
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This book is essential reading for anyone studying and working in the new integrated children's services. The Children's Workforce Development Strategy sets out the basic skills and knowledge needed by people whose work brings them into regular contact with children, young people and their families....
The Building Blocks of Early Maths
Bringing key concepts to life for 3-6 year olds
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Young children need to develop and understand the core basic concepts in mathematics before they can move forward in their mathematical learning. Without these solid foundations, they are more likely to have gaps in their knowledge and require intervention in their primary years. This new book provides...
Making a Difference
10 Essential Steps to Building a PreK-3 System
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Focused on increasing achievement for all young learners, this 10-step guide helps educators develop a PreK–3 system that links early childhood education standards to a K–3 system.
Classroom Observer
Developing Observation Skills in Early Childhood Settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Systematic observation is essential for educators to evaluate properly the effectiveness of curricula and to address the problems of individual students. This new third edition emphasizes early childhood, and focuses on those skills that will enable the observer to make appropriate, valid inferences...
by Clarissa Willis, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Easy-to-implement strategies for teaching infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs. Placing children with special needs in environments that include typically developing peers has become commonplace as continuing research confirms that all children benefit and learn from each other as well as...
Getting to the Heart of Learning
Social-Emotional Skills across the Early Childhood Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The best learning emerges in a classroom community where children feel accepted and appreciated for their ideas and actions. Through the activities in Getting to the Heart of Learning, Ellen Booth Church shows teachers and caregivers how easy it is to foster children’s sense of curiosity through...
Techwise Infant and Toddler Teachers
Making Sense of Screen Media for Children Under 3
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Infants and toddlers—the so?called “touchscreen generation” — are living in a screen mediasaturated world. They are the target market for ever?growing numbers of apps, TV shows, electronic toys, and e?books. Making sense of the complex issues associated with screen media in the lives of children...
by Karl Aubrey, Alison Riley
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Some of the most important developments in educational thought have been put forward by theorists who have challenged existing notions about the aims of education and its role in society. But how do these ideas relate to today’s classrooms and how can you use them to improve your own teaching practice?
This...
Children's Drawing and Writing
The Remarkable in the Unremarkable
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Children’s everyday drawing and writing are paradoxical: charmingly engaging, yet seemingly unremarkable in their ordinariness. This book takes a very close look at what passes by largely unnoticed at home and in school: copying, texts fleetingly present then gone, a picture drawn after the valued...
Groups to Facilitate Motor, Sensory and Language Skills 2
Teachers Resource Series, #2
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
MORE! 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
Integrates the use of a puppet & classroom materials
Provides specific greeting protocol for group start and end to promote eye...
Early Intervention Play for the Developmental Therapist and Teacher:
Teachers Resource Series, #5
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
Designed for early intervention aged students or clients, these activities are designed to facilitate sensory experiences at a basic and introductory level.
These tasks can be adapted for various age groups if needs depending on skill level
Includes discussion on Common Core Standards
The books...