Offers quick-fix solutions to two hundred challenges faced by early childhood teachers, including messes, interruptions, tight budgets, storage, small and/or noisy rooms, and others.
Discusses the basics of teaching three- to six-year-olds, covering such topics as lesson planning, creating daily schedules, arranging furniture, managing classroom activities, and using technology.
Surviving daily life with kids can be tricky but not impossible. This is where Sanity Savers comes to the rescue! The book is loaded with childproofing tips, kid-tested recipes and much more! Over 100 parent-tested tips can help you solve everything from teething to potty training and diaper rash to door slammers. Special sections on time savers, money savers, household hints and toy storage tips can help get your home back in order with kids help. These chapters alone are worth the price of this book! And the final chapter has something just for you: tips to reduce stress and beat the isolation blues!
This book is a must for any new graduates or teachers who need rejuvenating. Teaching is a very demanding profession and can be a drain on your emotions and self-esteem. These tips and reminders in this book will help keep you sane and motivated. Though frustrating at times, it is a very rewarding and flexible profession where an easy substitute is difficult to find.
A daily challenge for today's parents is incorporating positive discipline techniques and practices that put an end to temper tantrums, defiance and meltdowns. Dr. Jerry Day helps parents develop practical methods that teach children a fundamental attribute: how to willingly live under authority. His successful methods are based on four key principles that parents must instill in their relationships with their youngsters: 1. Tolerance and Acceptance 2. Respect and Admiration 3. Fun 4. Communication The clear guidance and real-life success stories that distinguish How to Raise Kids You Want to Keep will help end, once and for all, the constant tug-of-war between parent and child.
Multi-Age and More, the second book in the Building Connections series, is designed to provide practical stragegies, innovative ideas, and adaptable examples for holistic teaching in elementary classrooms. Every classroom is a "multi-age" classroom: even same-age students have varied skills, abilities, and interests. Multi-Age and More is for all teachers of single-age and multi-age classes who are looking for ways to meet the challenges of learners and their diverse learning needs. This book provides teachers with criteria, organizers, and practical strategies for managing and teaching any multi-age, multi-ability, and multi-interest class. The book includes over 85 ideas to help you: plan, organize, and modify the curriculum get students to represent their thinking and show you what they know design instruction to meet the needs of your students make assessment and evaluation an integral part of your students' learning and your teaching use available physical space, materials, and supplies effectively work with parents, colleagues, and school educators
"This edition strives to extract from the mine of available scientific literature those nuggets of clinically important information regarding the nature, assessment, diagnosis, and management of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children, adolescents, and adults. The revised and expanded fourth edition of this user-friendly workbook provides a master set of the assessment and treatment forms, questionnaires, and handouts. Formatted for easy photocopying, many of these materials are available from no other source. Featured are interview forms and rating scales for use with parents, teachers, and adult clients; helpful checklists and fact sheets; daily school report cards for monitoring academic progress; and more"--