Early Childhood Education

Suitable for a wide range of Early Years and Childcare qualifications, this 5th edition will help build students' practical skills by drawing on the history of Early Years and the most recent educational theories. This edition been updated to include the most recent theories and research, including new studies on language acquisition, attachment theory and self-regulation. Gives a detailed overview of education principles in early childhood and uses case studies to help learners understand how theories apply in real-world settings.

This book provides an overview of the field of early childhood education as well as ancillary issues that permeate the field.

Understanding Early Childhood is an introductory text for students on early years courses which offers broad and insightful perspectives across a range of themes on the ways in which we understand and study young children.

The text is generic across age levels K-12, and focuses on positive behavior supports in school settings. Each chapter begins with Key Written Questions, followed by Window to the World case studies, Discussion Questions, and suggestions for classroom and school activities. An overview of positive behavior supports is examined, including measuring behavior, functional assessment and analysis, reinforcement, punishment, classroom structure, preventative procedures and interventions, cooperative learning and peer tutoring. The self-management strategies, social skills instruction, and school-wide positive behavior supports are essential points that will be helpful for training purposes.

The text provides a specific context and focus for this active learning in areas of management and motivation. Additional sections discuss: understanding motivation and motivating environments, creating a managed environment with models and theories of management, best practice in teaching, creating and maintaining safe learning environments, responding to student motivation and behavior problems, and case studies for analysis in student motivation and classroom management. Also reviews appropriate strategies when responding to specific types of student misbehavior and discusses zero tolerance policies, bullying, expulsion, teaching special students, addressing diversity, violence, school uniforms, and drug abuse as related to management and motivation.

Differentiating for the Young Child helps primary teachers value and support the unique experiences and learning styles of diverse young learners. This text offer strategies and methods for promoting creative thinking and intellectual discovery across key discipline areas; discusses issues relating to undeserved students and differentiated technology use.

This book focuses on important elements within the learning cycle including observation, assessment and planning. This text combines theory with proven good practice, including: Making and recording observations effectively and efficiently; How observations should inform next steps, assessment and planning; Bringing all the information together into a cyclical process; Exploring potential challenges; Using reflective practice to refine and improve your techniques.

Assessing and Addressing Literacy Needs: Cases and Instructional Strategies is designed to help preservice and inservice teachers understand the problems that children encounter when learning to read and to provide key instructional strategies related to best practices in literacy instruction. The text promotes reflection and analysis that will provoke thoughtful responses and discussions to help teachers use assessments to identify problems and employ appropriate strategies to help their students become better readers.

Reading Foundations addresses the issue of teaching phonemic and orthographic skills to beginning and struggling readers. Reading Foundations includes three programs that examine ways to overcome reading failure for those having problems in the early stages of reading acquisition including: 1) The Good Feedback Program: provided for teachers, paraprofessionals, and parents who have become aware that a child has developed a set of negative self-attributions about their ability to learn; 2) The Step-By-Step Phonemic and Orthographic Intervention Program: a systematic program for developing phonemic and orthographic skills; 3) The Story Tree Program: a method of allowing the learner to overlearn common words and develop a sight vocabulary, while still holding interest by using a detextualized set of sentences that can be used in almost any order to make different story structures.