The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Classrooms - Softcover

Gartrell, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1401848567 ISBN 13: 9781401848569

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2003

Synopsis

The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills In the Early Childhood Classroom gives readers valuable insight into using guidance in the early childhood setting through a collection of popular writings on this timely topic. Taking into consideration the social and emotional development in young children, the book examines such areas as understanding why children behave the way they do and how to use the guidance approach to succeed in teaching acceptable social behaviors. The material discusses the differences between such important concepts as patience and understanding and between misbehavior and mistaken behavior. These concepts provide insight into the importance of developing an encouraging classroom and how that leads to non-punitive strategies for managing the classroom setting. The popular guidance concept of this book attracted the attention of the NAEYC, which has made it a comprehensive member benefit for 2003.

About this title

Review:

1. Patience or Understanding? 2. Misbehavior or Mistaken Behavior? 3. Beyond Discipline to Guidance 4. The Guidance Premise: Family-Teacher Partnerships 5. Using Guidance to Build an Encouraging Classroom: Beyond Time Out 6. Using Guidance to Maintain an Encouraging Classroom: Four Intervention Alternatives 7. Sustaining the Encouraging Classroom: Class Meetings 8. Guidance with Boys in Early Childhood Classrooms 9. Societal Violence and Guidance: Liberation Teaching 10. Strong Needs Mistaken Behavior: Strategies for Crisis Management and Comprehensive Guidance 11. Using the Booklet, "Developmentally Appropriate Guidance," as a Training Tool

About the Author:

Dan Gartrell (Ph.D., University of North Dakota) is Professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education and Director of the Child Development Training Program at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. As a teacher, CDA trainer, and student teaching supervisor, Dr. Gartrell has been working with students in early childhood for more than 30 years. His articles have been published in Young Children and the Journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). In addition, he has been a presenter at more than 200 workshops, training sessions, and keynote sessions on guidance in early childhood education in eight states, Germany, and Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1401848567
• ISBN 13: 9781401848569
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204