Skills for Preschool Teachers - Softcover

Beaty, Janice J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130388408 ISBN 13: 9780130388407

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

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.  The skills for working with young children are presented in 13 easily-readable, fact-filled chapters, each of which is based on one of the CDA "functional areas": safe, healthy, learning environment, physical, cognitive, communication, creative, self-concept, social, guidance, family, program management, and professionalism. Its use of 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. Practitioners will appreciate the appropriate NAEYC Program Standards in every chapter, as well as a section on inclusion and how to help children with disabilities succeed in classroom activities. New topics in this ninth edition include: how to respond to bullying in the classroom and playground; an expanded discussion of brain research and cognitive development; critical information on helping “dual-language learners” who are learning English as well as their own home language; and creating a professional portfolio. Proven in content and clearly written, this sound resource provides the practitioner with solid, practical tips, new research, and empirically-based methods and strategies for working with and teaching young children in an array of educational settings.

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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 (6th Ed.), Prosocial Guidance for the Preschool Child, and, most recent, Early Literacy in Preschool and Kindergarten (2nd Ed.) 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: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0130388408
• ISBN 13: 9780130388407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416