Skills for Preschool Teachers - Softcover

Beaty, Janice J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130486094 ISBN 13: 9780130486097

Publisher: Pearson, 2003

Synopsis

Built around the thirteen functional areas of the Child Development Associate (CDA) this book presents the basic skills essential to preschool teachers, center-based child care, Head Start, and pre-kindergarten settings. Each skill topic is presented with both theoretical background and ideas for practical applications in working with young children and their families. New material in this edition describes teacher behavior in emergency situations to support mental and emotional health of children. Also a new Creative Movement checklist and Cognitive Concept checklist help teachers focus on the basic concepts necessary for children's learning.

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.

 

Synopsis:

For Early Childhood Curriculum and Methods courses. Built around the 13 functional areas of the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential, the new edition of this classic text is again packed with the information future teachers need, whether they will teach in a preschool, child care center, Head Start program, or pre-Kindergarten setting. This unique organization makes Skills for Preschool Teachers equally valuable to anyone - practicing teacher, administrator, volunteer - who is seeking CDA certification. All of the basic classroom skills are covered, bolstered by a theoretical background and accompanied by practical ideas for applying text concepts with young children and families.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0130486094
• ISBN 13: 9780130486097
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416