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Starting with Character focuses on character development in infants, toddlers, and twos. This guide provides everything needed for preparing the environment, creating routines, and evaluating individual learning styles. Lesson plans and steps for creating new lessons are provided, as well as guides for evaluating children's progress. Facilitate the development of key character traits in children: caring, honesty, integrity, respect, responsibility, and self-discipline.Cathy Waggoner has worked in the field of education since 1989 with experience as a child care director and administrator at the Promethean Foundation. Martha Herndon, PhD, has worked as both an ECE educator and researcher since 1975.

This newest addition to the wildly popular Loose Parts series, helps teachers make a conscious effort to create culturally sustainable environments that allow children to grow and to conquer a dynamic world. Over 400 full-colour photographs beautifully illustrate the ongoing need for educational pedagogy.

Excite young learners with this collection of more than 80 simple science experiments. Each activity promotes learning and requires materials that are likely already in your classroom or kitchen. Each fun activity includes simple instructions and a clear explanation of the experimentand many include variations and helpful hints.

Technology is moving faster than teachers and children can keep up with. Teaching in the Digital Age for Preschool and Kindergarten guides teachers toward integrating technology across the curriculum so it can have an authentic, meaningful, and developmentally appropriate impact on children's exploration and learning.

A tool for program administrators to prepare successful professional development experiences for their staff during monthly meetings. The book includes an agenda and outline for each topic along with a materials list, handouts, and instructions for activities. Also included is a CD-ROM with twelve PowerPoint presentations and reproducibles for each topic.

View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens. Identify age-based bias and expand your outlook on and understanding of early childhood as a culture. Examine various elements of childhood culture: language, belief economics, arts, and social structure to understand children's dispositions of questioning, engagement, and cooperation.Emily Plank specializes in play-based education, diversity and culture in early childhood education, and outdoor learning. In 2011, the Iowa Association for the Education of Young Children identified Emily as one of seven emerging leaders. She earned her bachelor's degree from Pepperdine University. She and her family currently reside in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Bullying is a widespread and concerning issue that affects children of all ages. Focusing on character education in the early years, this resource aims to prevent bullying before it starts. Educators can use this comprehensive framework and developmentally appropriate activities to teach young children compassion, conflict resolution, respect, and other positive, pro-social values as they cultivate a peaceful and supportive learning environment for all children.Judith Anne Rice is a keynote speaker specializing in character building. She is the author of several books and an early childhood family education teacher.

Innately curious, infants and toddlers love to explore, investigate, and discover. This book defines what science, technology, engineering, and maths education looks like for this age group, provides caregivers opportunities to expand their understanding of STEM, and supplies 50 play-based developmentally appropriate activities for introducing STEM.

Story retelling is often misunderstood by educators. This book demystifies the story retelling experience for teachers of young children by identifying effective, intentional teaching and learning practices and providing a variety of examples for integrating story retelling activities across the curriculum for building skills in social-emotional development, numbers, STEM, and more.

Offers a collection of ready-made, open-ended lesson plans reviewed and tested by teachers, that help educators integrate STEM learning into the early childhood classroom. The lessons are written in the 5 E's format, and are linked to the Next Generation Science Standards. They encourage young children to explore STEM connections and link to children's books about STEM topics.

Filled with information on how to respond to an array of behavioural challenges including aggression, defiance, inappropriate language, tantrums, and separation anxiety. This book also offers prevention tips and developmental information that may affect children's behaviour.

Offers a series of best practices for child care providers so they're able to nurture a child's spiritual development without religion or God. It helps educators and parents support and strengthen children's self-awareness through deep connections, and increased social awareness. Spiritual moments help children to grow, explore, play, and ask big questions capable of moving one beyond oneself.

Gives staff feedback that positively alters their practice. It is equally useful in helping teachers, or caregivers, take a thoughtful look at their own practices. This book's detailed descriptions of what one should see in high quality programs (and why) gives readers a strong foundation of child development knowledge and of principles translated into practice.

As infants become toddlers, their expanding sense of self, growing motor, language, and cognitive skills provide opportunities for learning more about the world around them. This book is a valuable resource for understanding and facilitating young children's development of healthy sense of self, positive cultural identity, effective social relationships, and feelings of connectedness.

Collective leadership is based on shared decision-making, transparency, and involving the people affected by change

Many early childhood professionals are unfamiliar with computer science, robotics, and engineering concepts. This user-friendly and accessible book gives teachers great ideas for engaging young children with 100 exciting, hands-on computer science and engineering activities.

Each chapter begins with ideas for dramatic play, activities/songs/poems, and books to read aloud, plans for Circle Time, Table Work, and Free Choice Play, and ends with an empty lesson plan template. The weekly topics are linked to early childhood standards, and includes ideas for classroom setup, a sample daily schedule, and a CD full of reproducible material.

Many curriculum books treat teaching as something teachers do to or for children. Deb Curtis and Margie Carter, best-selling authors in the early learning field, believe teaching is a collaborative process in which teachers reexamine their own philosophies and practices while facilitating children's learning.Each chapter in this curriculum framework includes a conceptual overview followed by classroom stories and photographs to illustrate the concepts.The book helps teachers create materials and a classroom culture reflective of their values: Teach through observation, reflection, inquiry, and action, and encourage children to represent their learning in multiple ways, including songs, stories, and drama.

Using interviews gathered from program directors across the US with over 700 years of combined experience, this book is a comprehensive guide to becoming the best director you can be. Combined with current research and best practices you will find realistic real-time solutions to address the most common struggles faced by program administrators today.

Provides solutions to every possible problem faced by early childhood teachers - before teachers encounter them. This classic resource has been updated to focus on current issues faced by educators, including teaching twenty-first century life skills, technology, and cultural responsiveness.

Physical play is vital to young children's development. This practical, hands-on resource encourages you to incorporate boisterous physical play into every day and offers concrete advice on how to create spaces for safe play, how to effectively work big body movement into children's daily schedule, and how to use physical play to make teaching practice more dynamic and effective.

Discover why playing is school readiness with this updated guide. Timely research and new stories highlight how play is vital to the social, physical, cognitive, and spiritual development of children. Learn the seven meaningful experiences we should provide children with every day and why they are so important.

Early childhood educators need to be cognizant of the disconnect between public policy and classroom practicethe success of children they teach depends on it. This book analyzes how ineffective practices are driven by unexamined public policies and why educators need to challenge their thinking in order to make a difference in children's lives. A very complex story about public policy and the importance of teaching is told while entertaining and engaging the reader throughout.Michael Gramling is an expert in providing family literacy training and positive guidance training and has conducted experiential supervisor and mentor coach institutes for Head Start programs.

Parents will appreciate Creating a Beautiful Mess because it's fun and helpful. This book isn't about parenting rights or wrongs; it's about playful, joyous play experiences for childhood that are universal. It boils down the essential play experiences in an accessible, practical, and easy way. The chapters represent an optimal balance among experiences that support learning, provide physical activity, encourage creative expression, and promote social and family connections.Ann Gadzikowski is an early childhood educator and the author of several books. She is a frequent presenter at professional conferences on the topics of both early childhood education and gifted education.

Provides educators a concrete guide for using research-based principles of inquiry to help children explore their world. Using real-life examples and discussions on facilitating and guiding children in their natural exploration of their world, you will be able to engage and maximize learning. Web content and reproducible lesson plans make it easy to begin using proven inquiry-based instruction.

Discover the developmental benefits of outdoor learning and how the rich diversity of settings and materials of nature gives rise to questions and inquiry for deeper learning. Full of activities, examples, and resources to take the fun of STEM outside.