Early Childhood Education

Teachers College, 2015. LC1099.3 .D465 2015 Lesley Sherrill Library, reserves and lower level stacks.

Chapter in The Hope for Audacity: Recapturing Optimism and Civility in Education. Peter Lang, 2012. Sherrill Library Lower Level, LA217.2 .H66 2012

Shell Education, 2014. Sherrill Library Lower Level, TRC LB3044.82 .F562 2014

This book brings together a group of extraordinary educators and scholars who offer important insights about what we can do to defend childhood from societal challenges. The authors explain new findings from neuroscience and psychology, as well as emerging knowledge about the impact on child development of cultural and linguistic diversity, poverty, families and communities, and the media. Each chapter presents experiences and suggestions, from the perspectives of different disciplines, about what can be done to ensure that all children gain access to the supports they need for optimal physical, social, intellectual, and emotional development.

Approaches to Behavior and Classroom Management focuses on teaching readers how to use a variety of approaches in behaviour and classroom management in order to make good decisions when faced with the challenge of creating positive classroom communities. Today's classrooms often include children from a variety of backgrounds and with different needs - needs that must be met if these children are to thrive in school. This text will provide teachers and other educators with the historical and cultural framework necessary to understand approaches to behavior and classroom management, a deep understanding of each approach, and a tool belt of relevant methods from which to choose to meet the needs of various situations.