Early Childhood Education: eBooks

Helping Children Create, Collaborate, and Communicate-with Technology Children are growing up with technologies as part of their daily lives at home and in school. For educators, it is important to understand how to use technologies to promote learning in developmentally appropriate ways. This book helps you make thoughtful, informed decisions that will enhance what you are already doing to support children's learning. Learn how to * Use technologies in ways that build on, not detract from, the learning children gain through play* Introduce technologies using a gradual release of responsibility model* Foster children's storytelling, reflection, early coding skills, and more* Use technologies to enrich your partnerships with families and invite them into the classroom community* Work with colleagues to develop a digital culture that supports the program's goals With the guidance in this book, you'll be able to evaluate technologies and understand how to put them to their best uses in your program.

Interact with language in a fun and meaningful way! This book provides over 80 early childhood activities that focus on engaging with the sounds of language. From singing songs to participating in role-playing games, children will have fun and develop important language skills. Children will gain quality speech and listening practice while learning about individual words, syllables, rhymes, phonemes, and graphemes. The book also contains helpful teacher and family resources and tools to support diverse learners. Build phonological awareness for pre-K through first grade students with this exciting product!

Aimed at all beginning teachers involved in early years teaching. This text looks at the unique role of the early years teacher and outlines how you can support the development of children as unique individuals through an enabling environment, building success through effective relationships, outstanding provision and purposeful assessment. It encourages you to think about your own development in a holistic sense in order to promote outstanding professional practice. The Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers provide accessible, carefully researched, quick reads for early career teachers, covering the key topics you will encounter during your training year and first two years of teaching.  They complement and are fully in line with the new Early Career Framework and are intended to assist ongoing professional development by bringing together current information and thinking on each area in one convenient place.

The Covid pandemic is still very current and real, with many countries around the world still grappling with how to move forward. While the generation of "Covid children" will remain always as a unique cohort, there is no doubt that the results and repercussions of this most unusual experience will have implications that are far-reaching and of consequence to us all. In the United States, families and society appear to be gradually returning to some semblance of tradition, but the short and long term impact of what we have just collectively experienced, and specifically, what this experience has meant to our children, is yet to be explored or realized. This timely book explores the many facets for how the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted children in the United States. The authors explore both learning and teaching, and the social and emotional impacts felt by the pandemic. Exploring topics such as online learning, mental health, physical health, family impacts, and with a focus on detailing lessons learned, this volume is vital reading for educators and researchers alike. 

In this accessible and thought-provoking text, the author examines the behaviour of babies and young children in a developmental context, and takes into account the shifts and changes over time as young children grow and mature. Understanding Behaviour and Development in Early Childhood reveals, for example, how behaviour perceived as 'difficult' in a young child may be the manifestation of a response to emotional, sensory and cognitive experiences. Throughout the book, readers will find a strong emphasis on emotional well-being and the need to place our understanding of behaviour within a developmental time frame. Based on wide ranging professional experience the topics examined and discussed in this insightful book include: what we understand by 'behaviour' how the brain and senses work and mature during early childhood behaviour as a reflection of the child's internal state what emotions are and how we learn what feelings mean to us as individuals how emotions affect our ability to learn how we develop a sense of self. The book provides suggestions for how adults may think about and respond to changes in children's behaviour, and how we may support children in learning how to manage their own behaviour as they grow older and encounter wider and more complex situations. Understanding the meaning of behaviour is a constant challenge for anyone working with children. This developmental approach promotes a helpful reflective stance for practitioners and students working in early childhood education and care.

Strategies and activity ideas to support emotional development in children. What is an emotion-rich classroom? Similar to how a print-rich environment exposes children to a variety of printed materials, an emotion-rich one intentionally surrounds children with a wide range of social emotional learning experiences and supportive interactions. Create an Emotion-Rich Classroom provides frameworks for planning and implementing strategies to support emotional development in children.   This practical and easy-to-use resource helps early childhood educators develop the emotional literacy of the young children in their classrooms. Readers learn how to: increase children's emotional vocabulary model how to recognize and cope with various emotions support self-regulation and reduce challenging behaviors discuss emotions in others and in storybook characters support and engage families in fostering emotional skills at home Experienced in emotional development in children and early childhood education, author Lindsay N. Giroux, M.Ed., shows readers how to effectively weave social and emotional instruction into the fabric of the school day. Create an Emotion-Rich Classroom focuses on individual skills, making social and emotional instruction specific and measurable. With consistently structured chapters, this book is easy to use and rich in ideas and strategies.   Digital content includes checklists, planning sheets, and other materials to support educators as they build an emotion-rich classroom. A free downloadable PLC/Book Study Guide is available.