Format: Book
Author: Dickinson, David K
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
In this exciting new book, you'll travel into the homes and schools of over 70 young children from diverse backgrounds and observe parent-child and teacher-child interactions. Through research gathered in the Home School Study of Language and Literacy Development, the authors share with you the relationship they've found between these critical, early interactions and children's kindergarten language and literacy skills.
You'll explore both the home and school environments of these children at ages 3, 4, and 5. You'll see how families talk to their young children during everyday activities like book reading, toy play, and mealtimes. You'll also examine children's conversations throughout the classroom day and consider how teachers strive to support children's development. In each chapter, you'll
- see how the data was collected
- read actual transcripts of parent-child and teacher- child interactions
- recognize how these interactions relate to later development
- get suggestions for supporting children's language and literacy development
- learn how these findings play out in the lives of four of the children in the study
Find out how young children's home and classroom experiences during the preschool years are related to their kindergarten language and literacy skills, and discover the kinds of conversations that make a difference.
Connections and Commitments: Reflecting Latino Values in Early Childhood Programs
Format: Book
Author:
Publication Date: 2005
Brief Description:
As a teacher, making a strong connection with young children and their families sows the seeds of joyful living, lifelong learning. So how best do you invite Latinos—whose culture you may know little about—to be full and equal partners in your classroom’s learning community? Including an array of sample activities, strategies, and useful classroom tools to reinforce the values of family (familia), belonging (pertenencia), education (educación), and commitment (compromiso), this book will help you to create a classroom that is responsive to Latino culture. From Heinemann
Leadership In Action: How Effective Directors Get Things Done
Format: Book
Author: Paula Jorde
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
Bloom discusses the concepts and the skills of management and leadership. She urges potential leaders to examine themselves, to become aware of their ideals, values, passions, talents, habits, and foibles. Valuable sections on collaboration, shared commitment, and developing leadership in oneself and others. Strategies and examples to help leaders create a vision for their program. Perfect as a self-paced guide for directors or a training tool for workshop presenters.
Leadership in Action will help you: assess your unique leadership style; understand the values and beliefs that shape your leadership behavior; increase shared commitment to your centre's goals; make action plans that get implemented; instill leadership capacity at all levels of the organization; and solve organizational issues in a collegial and non-confrontational way
Make Early Learning Standards Come Alive: Connecting Your Practice and Curriculum to State Guidelines
Format: Book
Author: Gronlund, Gaye
Publication Date: 2006
Brief Description:
The resource you need to integrate early learning standards into your curriculum! The author provides practical help, support, and clear explanations. Easy-to-read charts show how different states define standards in each major content area and how these standards can be achieved in classrooms and programs. Learn how to plan curriculum with specific learning standards in mind; address standards in ways that are developmentally appropriate and effective; and assess children’s progress toward these standards. From Redleaf. Comprehensive Member Benefit.
Routines and Transitions: A Guide for Early Childhood Professionals
Format: Book
Author: Malenfant, Nicole
Publication Date: 2000
Brief Description:
In early childhood settings, children spend over 50 percent of their time on hand washing, dressing, napping, and other routines and transitions.
Routines and Transitions is a complete guide to help you turn these routine daily activities into learning experiences. By using transitions wisely, you not only help children develop skills but also run a more efficient, calm program environment. In addition to discussions on developmental issues, environments, educational values, and hygiene, this book includes examples of games and rhymes that help children accomplish daily transitions with ease.
Solutions for Early Childhood Directors: Real Answers to Everyday Challenges
Format: Book
Author: Lee, Kathy
Publication Date: 2003
Brief Description:
Solutions for Early Childhood Directors provides real-world answers for directors who work in the challenging yet rewarding field of early childhood education. Kathy Lee provides practical solutions to problems that arise every day such as training staff, handling discipline, dealing with parents, and creating partnerships in the community. For anyone who is a director or wishes to someday become a director, this book is the ultimate can t-do-without-it survival kit.
The Parent Newsletter: A Complete Guide for Early Childhood Professionals
Format: Book
Author: Reichel, Sylvia
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
Written by a trusted educator with years of experience, The Parent Newsletter is a practical how-to guide that will steer you step-by-step through the process of creating and implementing a newsletter to parents. From advice on writing effective articles to design and layout suggestions to scheduling and distribution, this unique resource is designed for you. All you need are a few hours and a simple word-processing program.
The Visionary Director: A Handbook for Dreaming, Organizing, and Improvising in Your Center
Format: Book
Author: Carter, Margie
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
As a director, your professional development should include not only administration, business, and human relations, but also the arts of dreaming, designing, organizing, and improvising. Filled with the voices of directors who have changed their communities for the better, The Visionary Director will inspire you to shape your own vision beyond day-to-day terms.
"The Visionary Director will make an immediate impact on the quality of early childhood programs by helping directors generate and implement enduring, meaningful visions for their centers. Filled with real world examples, inspiring quotations, and a wealth of creative and practical ideas, The Visionary Director is another extraordinary book by Margie Carter and Deb Curtis."
—Diane Trister Dodge, co-author, The Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood; president, Teaching Strategies, Inc.
Building Bridges between Teachers and Families VIDEO
Format: Video
Author: Resources, Harvest
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
If I didn't even know how to welcome parents, how did I think I could do parent ed?" "Parents wanted to share and I didnít know it." "It really began with parents educating me." Two veteran providers, in two very different economic and cultural settings, dialogue with one another as they share how they moved their focus from educating parents to being allies with parents. Classroom scenarios show ideas for designing environments that are inviting, bridging the worlds of parents and teachers, and creating family-oriented, home-away-from-home communities. VHS Video. 21 minutes.
From Babysitter to Business Owner: Getting the Most Out of Your Home Child Care Business (Paperback)
Format: Book
Author: Patricia Dischler
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
Family childcare homes provide care for hundreds of thousands of children every day. From Babysitter to Business Owner offers tried-and-true strategies for implementing established professional business practices in the home daycare environment, including:
Developing a thorough parent handbook
Selecting new clients
Setting business goals
Selecting an appropriate curriculum
Creating "work" spaces in your home
Practical and easy to read, From Babysitter to Business Owner has everything home daycare providers need to make their business succeed.
Many Right Ways Designing Your Home Childcare Environment
(English & Español)
Format: Video
Author: Kathy Modigliani, Ed. D., Ellen Moore, M.A
Publication Date: 2005
Brief Description:
Successful family child care providers believe that their environment sets the stage for the kind of care they offer children. But environments don't all have to be the same.
In Many Right Ways, we see a variety of rich child care settings that reflect how each home, group of children, and program is individual. Engaged children and experienced providers illustrate hundreds of ways to design unique, quality, home-based environments. DVD covers such topics as learning areas and materials; the family's adaptations to and for childcare; outdoor space health, safety, and routines; communicating with families; and accessibility and storage. The DVD has both
English and Spanish versions on one.
Room Arrangement as a Teaching Strategy
Format: Book and Video Set (DVD)
Author: Diane Trister Dodge, Bonnie Kittredge
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
A well-ordered classroom promotes learning, builds classroom community, and frees teachers to observe and interact with children. Classroom environment can convey powerful messages. "This is a place you can trust" "This is a place you can find things out for yourself" "There are places where you can be by yourself." This completely updated video presents basic principles for arranging preschool classrooms to communicate these messages. Includes booklet with complete narration and workshops for training.
Mental Health Consultation in Child Care: Transforming Relationships Among Directors, Staff and Families (Paperback)
Format: Book
Author: Kadija Johnston (Author), Charles Brinamen (Author)
Publication Date:
Brief Description:
"Mental Health Consultation in Child Care" addresses the impact of the caregiver-child relationship on the mental health of young children. As young children spend more and more time in child care programs, those programs have an increasingly significant effect on their healthy social and emotional development. Kadija Johnston and Charles Brinnamen review current theory and offer practical suggestions for improving relationships between program directors, staff, parents, children, and mental-health consultants to help identify and remove obstacles to quality care. The authors also offer real-life examples of effective programmatic functioning, interstaff and parent-staff relationships, and direct child interventions. Mental health professionals at all levels, early childhood educators and trainers, and policy makers will find this book useful guide to making positive changes in the child care environment.
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