Observing Children
This user-friendly text is an invaluable guide to observation techniques for everyone working with children. It explains why child-care workers and teachers need to observe children and gives clear instructions on how to carry out their observations. OBSERVING CHILDREN, based on real observations, describes aims and objectives and illustrates methods of recording observations. Offering a detailed breakdown of developmental milestones, the book suggest activities for promoting developmental progress and provides special guidance on observing children with special needs.
What Teachers Need to Know About Children at Risk
What do I do if I have an at-risk child in my classroom? As classrooms become more and more inclusive (including children with special needs in mainstream classrooms), today?s teachers need to have a strong background in the at-risk area. This text supplies practical solutions for how to address the needs of at-risk children effectively in the classroom. And it provides in-depth coverage of conditions that put children at risk. Each at-risk condition (e.g., homelessness, and recent immigrants) is examined by how it affects children at various developmental stages and how it affects the families. Hands-on suggestions in each chapter show how the classroom teacher can accommodate children living in these at-risk conditions.
The text?s short length and inexpensive price make it an ideal supplement for a variety of Education courses. What Teachers Need to Know about Children At Risk
is a book that students will want to bring with them into their own classrooms as a reference...
What Teachers Need to Know About Children at Risk 
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What Teachers Need to Know About Children at Risk
What do I do if I have an at-risk child in my classroom? As classrooms become more and more inclusive (including children with special needs in mainstream classrooms), today?s teachers need to have a strong background in the at-risk area. This text supplies practical solutions for how to address the needs of at-risk children effectively in the classroom. And it provides in-depth coverage of conditions that put children at risk. Each at-risk condition (e.g., homelessness, and recent immigrants) is examined by how it affects children at various developmental stages and how it affects the families. Hands-on suggestions in each chapter show how the classroom teacher can accommodate children living in these at-risk conditions.
The text?s short length and inexpensive price make it an ideal supplement for a variety of Education courses. What Teachers Need to Know about Children At Risk
is a book that students will want to bring with them into their own classrooms as a reference...
What Teachers Need to Know About Children at Risk
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Children`s Literature in the Elementary School
This classic text shows readers how children s literature can capture the attention of K-8 students and foster a lifelong love of reading. It is the standard work in the field. The text covers learning about children s literature, understanding children s responses to literature, the history of children s literature, beginning books, picture books and all of the genres (fantasy, poetry, realistic fiction, historical fiction, biography, and informational books), planning the literature program, and extending and evaluating children s understandings of literature.
Children`s Literature in the Elementary School
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