Skills for Preschool Teachers - Softcover

Beaty, Janice J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0023076917 ISBN 13: 9780023076916

Publisher: Macmillan Library Reference, 1995

Synopsis

This text presents a discussion of the basic classroom skills that are essential to teachers in preschool, center-based child care, Head Start, and pre-kindergarten settings. The content is built around the 13 functional areas of the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, which also makes it useful for those who are updating their skills or preparing for the national CDA credential. Each skill topic is presented with both theoretical background and ideas for practical applications in working with young children and their families.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

For over two decades, Skills for Preschool Teachers has prepared teachers, teaching assistants, college students, classroom volunteers, and CDA candidates to work with children three-to-five years of age in preschools, center-based child care, Head Starts, and pre-kindergartens. Its practical checklists for observing children and the classroom environment has been a hallmark of this text, as well as its use of the latest children’s picture books as lead-ins to every curriculum area covered. The appropriate NAEYC Program Standards can be found in every chapter, as well as a section on inclusion and how to help children with disabilities succeed in classroom activities.

 

Proven in content with clearly-written prose, this sound resource provides the early childhood practitioner with solid and practical tips, new research, and empirically-based methods and strategies for working with and teaching young children in an array of educational settings.

 

New to This Edition:

 

• How to respond to bullying in the classroom and playground. (Chapter 1)
• An expanded discussion of brain research and cognitive development (Chapter 5)
• Helping “dual-language learners” who are learning English as well as their own home language (Chapter 6)
• Expanded discussion of Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) found in the text introduction
• NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards can now be found in the Introduction as well as in every chapter in the text.
• Newly added popular children’s books, such as such as Freckleface Strawberry (Chapter 1) and the Dodgeball Bully (2009), are now boxed features in each chapter serving as lead-ins to activities.
• NEW discussions on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) (Chapter 2, Maintaining a Healthy Classroom).
• More on “skipping” as well as a new book (Ready, Set, Skip, 2007) as a lead-in to Chapter 4, Advancing Physical Skills.

 

About the Author:

Janice J. Beaty, professor emerita, Elmira College, Elmira, New York, is a full-time writer of early childhood college textbooks and a consultant and trainer in early childhood education from her new home in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Some of her textbooks include: Observing Development of the Young Child (5th Ed.), Prosocial Guidance for the Preschool Child, and, most recent, Early Literacy in Preschool and Kindergarten with Dr. Linda Pratt. Dr. Beaty is also involved in an early literacy mentoring program with Foster Grandparents in schools and Head Start centers in central Missouri.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan Library Reference
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0023076917
• ISBN 13: 9780023076916
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 355