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Young Children's Behaviour: Practical Approaches for Caregivers and Teachers
Louise Porter
Manufacturer: Paul Chapman Educational Publishing
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Book Description
The author of this successful text shows that the most powerful disciplinary tool for young children is a caring relationship. Drawing on her experience as a psychologist, academic, consultant, and parent, Louise Porter offers a wealth of practical guidance that is effective, sensible, direct and always empathic to young children's needs.
Book Description
Childcare providers and teachers in preschool and primary grade settings will greatly value the collection of writings in The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills In the Early Childhood Classroom. The writings provide a concise yet multi-faceted overview of the guidance approach used with this age group. The book examines the differences between patience and understanding and between misbehavior and mistaken behavior, important distinctions that must be made in order to understand and deal with various behaviors using the guidance approach. Readers also will learn the components of an encouraging classroom and strategies for maintaining it, leading to non-punitive approaches for classroom management. One chapter puts particular focus on intervention strategies with boys, a topic readers often seek out. The book has the distinction of being selected as a comprehensive member benefit for the NAEYC for 2003.
Customer Reviews:
GREAT book!!.......2007-05-07
This book should be a must for every early childhood teacher or child care provider. It has many practical solutions to everyday problems we all encounter.
Oh my Goodness.......2007-03-03
If you having any bearing on a child's social and emotional wellbeing, Itell you that this will end up being a staple in your library. You will also find yourself referring others to specific chapters in the book. I am now on my third copy of this book, as I keep lending it to others, and they won't give it back!
This first chapter dives into sharing how when we understand developmental milestones in children, then the idea of "patience" most seem to think those who work with young children need, is thrown out the window! Dan explains, how truly understanding the child's development is the touchstone to nurturing all aspects of a child's development.Patience is not a requirement when it comes to working with young children.
Also, the chapter on crisis management(I think chapter 10) is fundamental to an early childhood educators approach to working with challengind behaviors. The chapter on the male role and early childhood is excellent.
Buy this book! You will not be dissapointed!
Book Description
Based on a solid theories and research regarding child growth, development, and learning, this book presents a multitude of practical ideas, suggestions, and guides for introducing young children to social studies content. Play and activity are integrated throughout the book, which reflects the author's philosophy that play serves not only as the integration of social studies curriculum, but also functions as the basic mode of children's learning. A complete chapter on celebrating diversity offers a solid foundation of curriculum materials, methods, and practices for teaching young children to value themselves and each other. Other coverage includes ideas for using current technologies and resources from the Internet to enhance the learning process. All other areas of the curriculum are involved—integrating social studies with biological and physical sciences, art, literature, mathematics, reading, and writing—to extend and enrich children's education. The book is specifically designed for teachers of pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and primary grade children.
Customer Reviews:
Good Companion to Arthur K. Ellis' book.......2006-08-10
Social studies in the early childhood years mostly entails knowing about oneself, his family/community ecological system, and the awareness of culture. I think Carol Seedfeldt accomplishes all of this.
A teacher, however, may want to take some time to plant the seeds of later elementary social science learning during these younger years. I would suggest, therefore, using this text in conjuction with Arther Ellis' Social Studies book which really and truly does what I thought this book would do.
I'm not downing this book. I just think it reaches its maximum efficiency and use when coupled with an excellent elementary social studies teacher education text
Book Description
Taking professionals and students step by step through conceptualizing, planning, and implementing an effective early literacy program, this book focuses on preventing reading difficulties and promoting success in at-risk 3- to 5-year-olds. The authors draw on extensive research and many years of influential work in real classrooms. A comprehensive framework is delineated for helping young children construct meaning from different kinds of texts, develop key oral language skills, and learn concepts about print and the alphabet. Ideas for tailoring instruction to the needs of culturally and linguistically diverse learners are accompanied by clear assessment guidelines. The book also offers practical, how-to-do-it suggestions for setting up literacy activities and arranging the classroom environment. Concluding chapters bring the authors' approach to life with vivid depictions of a preschool and a kindergarten classroom in action. Two invaluable appendices provide additional useful resources: reproducible sheets for conducting literacy assessments and a primer on phonics for teachers.
Customer Reviews:
Very good........2007-06-26
I thought this book provided a lot of useful information for someone who is beginning work in this field. I do feel like a great deal of it is targeted more towards preschool than kindergarten, but definitely addresses the needs of "at-risk" students. The assessment suggestions were weak in my opinion, but a good starting point.
Book Description
Vivian Paley presents a moving personal account of her experiences teaching kindergarten in an integrated school within a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood. In a new preface, she reflects on the way that even simple terminology can convey unintended meanings and show a speaker's blind spots. She also vividly describes what her readers have taught her over the years about herself as a "white teacher."
Customer Reviews:
White teacher.......2007-05-06
Used this for a college class! Great book! Paley was very ahead of her time in dealing with multi-cultural issues in early childhood education settings.
Excellent.......2006-09-03
This book will really bring to light exactly how children learn to identify themselves. This book will reinforce the truth that prejudice is learned and that adults play a huge role in the value systems that children adopt. You'll also find a few things in here that make you giggle...after all the book is about a kindergarten class.
A Teacher's Memoire of Diversity.......2006-06-06
Paley developed an understanding about why kids behave the way they do. When I was in pre-school in the early 80's I had teachers who were like her; Jewish women who knew how to make the day enjoyable and constructive at the same time. However, Paley has one talent that most teachers don't have, and that is a vast threshhold of patience. She coaches a little boy away from his bad habits, using praise instead of punishment, and as a teacher I find such tactics superb. But it takes even greater effort not to get angry, and that's why Paley's efforts are sucessful.
Paley (humorously) recounts the parents who didn't trust her. She was a proponent of integration, and when her class was integrated, she had to get used to little kids with upbringings that were opposite of anything she knew. But she certainly practiced what she preached, never blaming the kids' problems on race or their economic status.
truthfulness is liberating.......2002-01-05
What struck me about the book is the author's willingess to be open about her lack of understanding about racial barriers. The writing is self-reflective without being self-loathing.It's honest and very engaging.
Multicultural Education.......2000-11-07
In White Teacher, Vivian Gussin Paley describes her experiences as a young teacher. She tells of her reactions when faced with a classroom full of children who are different from her. By recounting her experiences as a child and reflecting upon them, she is able to better understand why certain children behave in certain ways. These reflections, given in a narrative form, inform the reader of the thought processes of Paley. Through these examples, one is able to better understand what the author was experiencing.
Paley's intention is to prepare future readers for the experiences she has had by giving the reader her reactions to them. She tells the reader what worked to make a bad situation better, as well as what did not. Most of the cultural differences Paley describes occur between her, a Jew of European descent and the African-American children in her classes. However, many of the lessons and principles used apply to all children. Her examples include children with different learning styles; comments taken out of context; children who are excluded from a group and those forming the groups based on a singular characteristic. The majority of the classroom settings are in half-day kindergartens.
This is a wonderful book for anyone who has ever had, or will face a multicultural situation - that would include pretty much all of us. There is an added value in this book for potential teachers. Paley shows how to effectively validate children's perceptions of the world and make them feel value and self-worth.
Book Description
Knowing how to listen is essential to learning, growing, and getting along with others. Simple words and inviting illustrations help children develop skills for listening, understand why it's important to listen, and recognize the positive results of listening. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, and activities.
Customer Reviews:
Teach your child how to pay attention BEFORE even starting school!.......2006-08-18
I think this one is our favorite. The little boy looks so intently at his teacher. He learns how to pay attention even when there are distractions. These books are cleverly written and I just love the illustrations. Nice representation of all ethnic groups.
All the books in the 'Learning to Get Along' series are fantastic. They teach vital social skills (paying attention, sharing, respecting others property, etc) to children in a way that they can understand.
You can't go wrong with any of these books!
Realistic situations, child-friendly text.......2006-01-11
I would highly recommend any of the books in this series by Cheri Meiners. My just-turned-5-year-old son asks for them at storytime, and the writing is just right for pre-K and kindergarten children. Truthful without being preachy, the series shows children and family members from many different ethnic groups in the colorful illustrations, and each book addresses issues which are developmentally critical to this particular age group: sharing, taking turns, being afraid, listening, respecting others, helping out at home, etc. These books have given us a starting point to discuss problems at school or interacting with others, and have helped my son to have more empathy for his peers....I am hopeful that this quality will serve him well as he continues on to kindergarten and elementary school. It is exciting to hear him use ideas from this series to problem solve.
Great book!.......2005-03-23
Book is colorful, keeps childrens attention, I would advise it best for a 3-5 yr old, depending on maturity of the child. (Basically if they can be still and listen) it has nice big words so a beginning reader could try to read some by themself. I love good books that teach manners! We got this book from the library, but I would love the hardback version of this book as well as most of them in this series!
Book Description
This resource is part of the four-volume
Social Skills Curriculum Library, a practical series designed to help you teach positive behavior skills to student of all abilities. Students learn such social skills as dealing with anger productively ... setting goals ... building self-confidence ... dealing with prejudice... and more.
Customer Reviews:
impromptu lesson planning bonus.......2007-09-25
This book has easily accessible lesson plans that develops useful social skills. It also serves incredibly well for impromptu lesson plans which can be expanded in other creative ways. good also for an advisory or with students struggling in terms of behavior within the school system.
Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 7-12.......2007-06-09
I love this book; It really encourages creative thinking and is a must for group work with adolescents. I highly recommend it!!!
Great Combo of Activities.......2007-05-14
Haven't used this in practice yet, but I read through most of the activies. This book offers a lot of great social skills activities that are easy to incoroporate in the classroom or for school counselors. You can easily pick and choose activities that might be useful in your own group sessions or adapt activities to your group goals. It could be improved by including more last session/wrap up ideas for closure. It could also implement additional processing questions so the user doesn't have to think to much to create his or her own.
Great Tool.......2007-01-13
This series of books are wonderful for students who lack social skills. I have shared the book's ideas with colleagues and all seem to enjoy the lessons provided.
This book was disappointing.......2007-01-03
The description said you could easily apply the skills and exercises at home, outside of the classroom environment, but it is clearly written for classroom use.
The author doesn't really explain what to do with each exercise either, it's seemed more like a list of suggestions or ideas than real activities. For instance they would say "come up with a story to show typical youngsters conflicting over a problem and give examples of how to resolve those problems without violence."
That's what I got the book for.... if I knew how to come up with scenerios like that and exercises on my own, I wouldn't need help.
I gove it 2 stars because there are a couple of worksheets included that do seem like they are useful practices, but other than that, this was a waste of money.
Customer Reviews:
Essential ECE Teacher Resource.......2007-09-24
Louise Derman-Sparks book continues to be a favorite of mine since I first purchased it nearly 18 years ago. As a teacher of young children, I found it invaluable in helping me create a classroom that tangibly respected the diversity of our families (chapter 2, "Creating an Anti-Bias Environment" was especially helpful with this task). When I first came upon the book I was well versed in helping children develop high self-esteem, but this book helped me realize that sometimes that positive identity is based on ethnocentrism or stereotyping. The introduction to the book was most thought provoking! I read "Boys need to learn competence without also learning to feel and act superior to girls"...and "Differences are good; oppressive ideas and behaviors are not." This book helped me move from a multicultural (tourist) approach to a genuinely respectful anti-bias approach to help children affirm and enjoy cultural identities in their community. Chapter 7 "Learning about Cultural Differences and Similarities" is an invaluable resource for planning respectful activities. I encourage all teachers of young children to read and use this most valuable resource.
Required Reading.......2007-06-25
I was shocked to see the low reviews given this book, and once I read them thought I should chip in my 2 cents to offset the bizarre review previously submitted. This book is a standard for anyone interested in issues around equity and diversity and how the politics of our culture can best be answered and improved through our work with young children. We've known this since LBJ was president and he commissioned the Kerner Report - in order to stop bias and the anger that it causes, we need to start with the youngest among us. I've had this book by my side for the almost 20 years I've worked with children, and consider it to be as crucial and important as Sue Bredecamp's DAP. This is not a book of lies, it's the most honest direct approaches to diversity. And it speaks the truth.
Against Gods perfect will.........................................................................................................2006-06-07
Excerpts from NAEYC'S "Anti-Bias and Child Activist Curricula":
Anti-Bias Curriculum - Tools for Empowering Young Children
Multiculturalism:
Definition of "Whites: All the different national ethnic groups of European origin who as a group are disproportionately represented in the control of the economic, political, and cultural institutions in the United States." (p. 3)
Witchcraft:
"Kay sets up...a 'witch-healer' table, where the children can make their own potions." (p. 9)
Revisionist History:
"And if the hypothetical Indians who participated in that hypothetical feast thought all was well and were thankful in the expectation of a peaceful future, they were sadly mistaken." (pp. 87-88)
Homosexuality:
Definition of "Homophobia: A fear and hatred of gay men and lesbians backed up by institutional policies and power that discriminate against them." (p. 3)
Sexual Identity:
"...the purpose of these activities is to enable preschoolers to develop a clear, healthy sex identity through understanding that their being a girl or boy depends on their anatomy, not on what they like to do." (p. 53)
"Make copies of an outline of a body as drawn by a preschooler, and in small groups, ask children to fill in all the body parts, and to show if the person is a girl or boy." (p. 53)
Activism with Young Children:
"Young children have an impressive capacity for learning how to be activists if adults provide activities that are relevant and developmentally appropriate. (;. 77)
"Instead of one superhuman figure (usually a white male) righting wrongs all by himself, activism activities teach that real people, adults and children, make life better by working together." (p. 79)
Info for USA wanted anti-bias Louise Derman.......2000-08-04
I think I found what you are searching for! Found right here on Amazon.com is a book by Louise Derman-Sparks called Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism. Hope it helps. The cost seems very decent.
I am still searching for this book.......1999-10-04
I am looking for a book titled as anti-bias curriculum by derman-man sparks and louise related to child education Can you help pl
Book Description
In this compelling volume, distinguished educators tackle a frequently asked question about multicultural education: How do I teach about racial and cultural diversity if all my students are white? The authors propose seven learning themes to help young white children resist messages of racism and build identity and skills for thriving in a multicultural country and world. The text includes strategies, resources, and classroom examples for implementing the learning themes in early childhood settings.
Taking multicultural education to a new level, this practical guide:
* Places the development of white children's racial identity in the context of the historical construction of "whiteness" and racism in America.
* Suggests strategies for nurturing a new white identity as the starting place for anti-bias/multicultural work with children.
* Offers ways to expand children's interests and concerns beyond their immediate world to instill a sense of caring and connection toward people different from them and to encourage seeing themselves as agents of change.
* Includes activities for families and staff, reflection questions, a review of white anti-racism activists, lists of suggested children's books, and organizational and website resources.
Customer Reviews:
teaching diversity.......2007-09-19
While the US is increasingly heterogeneous ethnically, this is not necessarily true in every community or school. The authors address the issue of those schools, public or private, where all (or effectively all) the students are white. How then to teach about a diverse broader society?
The book also looks specifically at the makeup of private schools. Many upper and middle class families have put their children into these schools. Where the ethnicity tends to be more white than in the public schools, at least in the large metropolitan areas. Perhaps as a counterweight to oft-repeated murmurings that some of these private schools have prospered due to white flight, the book's studies are especially valuable.
The text does not confine itself to offering suggestions strictly for diversity in ethnic or racial grounds. Differing religious traditions and sensitivity for those is also discussed. Examples include children of Jehovah's Winess families, who typically don't celebrate holidays or birthdays. Very easy for other students to misunderstand and mock.
Book Description
Teachers and child caregivers will love this new book because it clearly combines the theory and practice of teaching social studies to young children. Taking a global approach, this book presents major topical areas such as geography, history, the arts, and multicultural education. In addition, it integrates social studies with other subjects in a literature-based format. It's practical, easy-to-understand coverage that meets national standards.
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