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• NEW - Every chapter thoroughly updated—Emphasizes ways to create a calm and happy classroom atmosphere, how to handle emergencies in a way that dissipates children's fears, strategies for supporting children's mental and emotional health, and ideas for helping children cope with traumas in their life.

  • Expands the text's scope to address currently “hot” topics—examines research on stress and its effect on the brain, to support the need to provide a high-activity, low-stress environment.

• NEW - Creative Movement Checklist —Delineates strategies and ideas for involving children in a wide range of active games, sports, and rhythmic behaviors.

  • Supports the teacher's role in encouraging physical activity with the latest research on the relationship between music and movement, and brain development—explores ideas for using picture song books to encourage acting-out verses, chanting, and creating a sandbox theatre.

• NEW - Cognitive Concepts Checklist —Organizes a wealth of ideas for focusing children's attention on fundamental learning activities.

  • Illustrates “back to basics” ideas in fresh, engaging ways—helps teachers make learning fun for children (and teaching fun for them).

• NEW - Discussion of new picture books—Forty are new to this edition—and computer programs that support text-recommended hands-on activities.

  • Encourages future teachers to use the latest children's literature—the books children want—as tools in the classroom.

• NEW - Discussion of cultural influences on children—Explores ways in which family values and characteristics affect children's classroom behavior.

  • Sensitizes future teachers to the diversity of behavior and expectations they'll encounter in the classroom.

• NEW - Expanded discussion of the ways children make friends—Offers ideas for creating a “kindness class,” for developing “listening partners,” and for helping special needs children make friends.

  • Gives students ideas for creating a nurturing environment in their classroom—assists them to see the need to start children off on the school journey with a positive mindset.

• NEW - Time management discussion—Compares and contrasts American practices with those of Italy's Reggio Emilia programs.

  • Opens a window on practices students likely will never experience first hand—expands the notion of classroom management.

• Chapters are presented as self-contained learning modules—Come complete with objectives, learning activities, end-of-chapter questions, reference lists, supplementary reading lists, video lists, and an evaluation sheet.

  • Broadens the applicability of the text—readers may learn at their own pace, taking each chapter as a module, and instructors may assign chapters in the order they prefer.

• Observation checklists focus attention on young children's skills—Large Motor Skills, Small Motor Skills, Children's Curiosity, Self-Concept, Social Skills, and Child Involvement.

  • Make easy for teachers/caregivers to assess children's abilities, determine areas of strength and need, and guide growth and development.

• Inclusion of discussion of more than 200 children's books.

  • Creates a beginning library list for first-time teachers, Head Start coordinators, daycare volunteers—even parents.

New To This Edition

• Every chapter thoroughly updated—Emphasizes ways to create a calm and happy classroom atmosphere, how to handle emergencies in a way that dissipates children's fears, strategies for supporting children's mental and emotional health, and ideas for helping children cope with traumas in their life.

  • Expands the text's scope to address currently “hot” topics—examines research on stress and its effect on the brain, to support the need to provide a high-activity, low-stress environment.

• Creative Movement Checklist —Delineates strategies and ideas for involving children in a wide range of active games, sports, and rhythmic behaviors.

  • Supports the teacher's role in encouraging physical activity with the latest research on the relationship between music and movement, and brain development—explores ideas for using picture song books to encourage acting-out verses, chanting, and creating a sandbox theatre.

• Cognitive Concepts Checklist —Organizes a wealth of ideas for focusing children's attention on fundamental learning activities.

  • Illustrates “back to basics” ideas in fresh, engaging ways—helps teachers make learning fun for children (and teaching fun for them).

• Discussion of new picture books—Forty are new to this edition—and computer programs that support text-recommended hands-on activities.

  • Encourages future teachers to use the latest children's literature—the books children want—as tools in the classroom.

• Discussion of cultural influences on children—Explores ways in which family values and characteristics affect children's classroom behavior.

  • Sensitizes future teachers to the diversity of behavior and expectations they'll encounter in the classroom.

• Expanded discussion of the ways children make friends—Offers ideas for creating a “kindness class,” for developing “listening partners,” and for helping special needs children make friends.

  • Gives students ideas for creating a nurturing environment in their classroom—assists them to see the need to start children off on the school journey with a positive mindset.

• Time management discussion—Compares and contrasts American practices with those of Italy's Reggio Emilia programs.

  • Opens a window on practices students likely will never experience first hand—expands the notion of classroom management.

Table of Contents



 1. Maintaining a Safe Classroom.


 2. Maintaining a Healthy Classroom.


 3. Establishing a Learning Environment.


 4. Advancing Physical Skills.


 5. Advancing Cognitive Skills.


 6. Advancing Communication Skills.


 7. Advancing Creative Skills.


 8. Building a Positive Self-Concept.


 9. Promoting Social Skills.


10. Providing Guidance.


11. Promoting Family Involvement.


12. Providing Program Management.


13. Promoting Professionalism.


Appendix: Becoming a CDA: Child Development Associate.


Index.

Courses

Curriculum in Early Childhood  (Early Childhood Education)
Methods in Early Childhood  (Early Childhood Education)

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  Skills for Preschool Teachers has become a classic in the field of early childhood education. In addition to providing practical tips and research-based methods for developing teachers, a hallmark of this text is its practical checklists for observing children and the classroom environment.

   

  For over two decades, Skills for Preschool Teachers has prepared teachers, teaching assistants, college students, classroom volunteers, and CDA candidates to work with children 3-to-5 years of age in preschools, center-based child care, Head Start programs, and pre-kindergartens. As in previous editions, the ninth features a clarity like none-other with content speaking directly to the student as teacher. Instructors will appreciate the unique use of the latest children’s picture books as lead-ins to every curriculum area covered throughout the text. New topics in the 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. Appropriate NAEYC Program Standards are also included in every chapter, as well as a section on inclusion and how to help children with disabilities succeed in classroom activities.

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Author Bios

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 (5^th 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.

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