Addressing Challenging Behaviors and Mental Health Issues in Early Childhood
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Now in a fully updated second edition, this essential volume provides research-based strategies to help educators address challenging behaviors in early childhood and elementary years. Drawing on research and approaches from the fields of neuroscience, child development, child psychiatry, counseling, and applied behavior analysis, this text offers teachers simple strategies to manage behaviors and promote mental health and resilience in young children. Thoroughly updated to reflect new developments in neuroscience, trauma, and physical and mental health, this second edition also features an entirely new chapter on classroom approaches in child mental health, including the interaction of technology with challenging behaviors and mental health issues. Comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and culturally responsive, this critical resource provides new and experienced educators and coaches with educational and intervention approaches that are appropriate for all children, with and without disabilities.
Child and Youth Development
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Child And Youth Development provides an overview of human lifespan development from infancy through adolescence using a student-friendly writing style that makes moving theory into application easier to understand. Written for early childhood care providers, teachers, and other childcare service providers, the chapters in this textbook provide content in a manageable format for the student. Each chapter has multiple points to stop to reflect on learning and respond to application questions to help students gauge their understanding of the material. Real-world subject matter focuses on practical global topics as well as issues relating to diversity, inclusion, and equity to enhance student interest and involvement. An abundance of study aids include learning outcomes matched to key chapter summary content and application and assessment opportunities increase students' ability to succeed in this rewarding course. Practical examples from educational settings provide special significance to professional caregivers and educators and each chapter includes opportunities to apply knowledge in practical ways to current issues and to expand global and cultural perspectives. Relevant and timely topics include global perspectives, food and product trends, brain research, and important diversity, inclusion, and equity issues are integrated throughout the text with content that supports constructive dialogue about complex issues such as anti-bias education and does so with intellectual humility and compassion.
Creating Curriculum in Early Childhood: enhanced learning through backward design
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Creating Curriculum in Early Childhoodexplores the backward design model of curriculum development, equipping readers with the tools and methods they need to effectively apply backward design in the early childhood classroom. Clear yet comprehensive chapters walk new and veteran educators through an effective method for curriculum design that promotes meeting standards through intentional teaching while engaging children in developmentally appropriate, interest-based education focused on big ideas and conceptual understanding. Featuring desired results, assessment methods, and teaching techniques specific to birth to age eight, this critical guide also includes practical tips for educators new to the method. Designed to help students and practitioners alike, this powerful textbook combines early childhood philosophy and developmental research with highly practical descriptions, rationales, and examples for developing curricular units using backward design.
Inclusion Includes Us: Building Bridges and Removing Barriers in Early Childhood
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Foster a sense of belonging for everyone in your classroom community For early childhood educators, creating an inclusive early childhood environment is more than adapting interactions and the learning environment to help specific children. Every person views the world based on their needs, culture, and life experience, and identifying our personal culture can empower us to find ways to work with the needs and culture of the children we care for, instead of using strategies to help children adapt to the classroom culture. Replace binary thinking (typical vs. atypical, acceptable vs. challenging, the norm vs. the other) with constellation thinking, considering each person based on their own unique combination of strengths. Inclusion Includes Us seeks to replace barriers between early childhood educators and their students with an understanding that every person in the classroom has a unique combination of needs, strengths, and preferences. This book will help early childhood educators reflect on how they view themselves and others in terms of both culture and abilities, offering concrete ideas for connecting with children of all cultures and abilities and creating a sense of belonging for everyone.
STEM in Early Childhood Education: how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics strengthen learning
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Bringing together a diverse cohort of experts, STEM in Early Childhood Education explores the ways STEM can be integrated into early childhood curricula, highlighting recent research and innovations in the field, and implications for both practice and policy. Based on the argument that high-quality STEM education needs to start early, this book emphasizes that early childhood education must include science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in developmentally appropriate ways based on the latest research and theories. Experienced chapter authors address the theoretical underpinnings of teaching STEM in the early years, while contextualizing these ideas for the real world using illustrative examples from the classroom. This cutting-edge collection also looks beyond the classroom to how STEM learning can be facilitated in museums, nature-based learning outdoors, and after-school programs. STEM in Early Childhood Education is an excellent resource for aspiring and veteran educators alike, exploring the latest research, providing inspiration, and advancing best practices for teaching STEM in the early years.
Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes
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Pete the Cat is back--and this time he's rocking in his school shoes. Pete discovers the library, the lunchroom, the playground, and lots of other cool places at school. And no matter where he goes, Pete never stops moving and grooving and singing his song . . . because it's all good.
