Young Children
Intentional Teacher: Choosing the Best Strategies for Young Children’s Learning
As educators we must act with knowledge and purpose to make sure young children acquire the skills and understanding they need to succeed. Planful, intentional teachers keep in mind the key goals for children’s learning and development in all domains by creating supportive environments, planning curriculum, and selecting from a variety of teaching strategies those that best promote each child’s thinking and skills. This book considers how and when each type of learning (child-guided, adult-guided, or a combination) is most effective and what teachers can do to support it. Eight chapters comprise this book: (1) Introducing Intentional Teaching; (2) Best Practices to Support Intentional Teaching; (3) Language and Literacy; (4) Mathematics and Scientific Literacy; (5) Social Skills and Understandings; (6) Physical Movement; (7) The Visual Arts; and (8) Reflections on Intentional Teaching. The book also includes acknowledgments, resources, references, and an index.
Intentional Teacher: Choosing the Best Strategies for Young Children’s Learning
Creative Learning Activities for Young Children (Creative Learning Actitivies for Young Children)
PERFECT FOR NEW AND SEASONED EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS, CAREGIVERS, AND GRADUATING STUDENTS, this comprehensive activity book provides hundreds of developmentally appropriate activities for young children. The book focuses on the growth of the whole child and includes developmental norms for all areas. Activities are designed to support, enhance, and promote the child’s development in all areas. Students are taught how to assess and plan appropriate activities. Criteria are provided for selecting children’s books and toys to ensure that they are developmentally appropriate as well as suggestions for introducing activities. Activities include art, cooking, dramatic play, finger plays, large muscle activities, math, science, and music.
Creative Learning Activities for Young Children (Creative Learning Actitivies for Young Children)
Beginning Literacy With Language: Young Children Learning at Home and School
In this exciting new book, you’ll travel into the homes and schools of over 70 young children from diverse backgrounds and observe parent-child and teacher-child interactions. Through research gathered in the Home School Study of Language and Literacy Development, the authors share with you the relationship they’ve found between these critical, early interactions and children’s kindergarten language and literacy skills.
You’ll explore both the home and school environments of these children at ages 3, 4, and 5. You’ll see how families talk to their young children during everyday activities like book reading, toy play, and mealtimes. You’ll also examine children’s conversations throughout the classroom day and consider how teachers strive to support children’s development. In each chapter, you’ll see how the data was collected,read actual transcripts of parent-child and teacher- child interactions,recognize how these interactions relate to later development,get suggestions for supporting children’s language and literacy development, andlearn how these findings play out in the lives of four of the children in the study. Read the rest of this entry »