This Child Progress Record was developed for use in conjunction with the AEPS(R) for children birth to 3 years to monitor individual children's progress over time.
Coaching is one of the best ways to enhance the skills of early childhood practitioners and ensure high-quality learning experiences for young children with and without disabilities. With this authoritative professional learning resource, educators and early interventionists.
Offering an in-depth exploration of the distinctive features of the play development and learning of toddlers, this book provides useful materials, strategies and tools that can be used by practitioners supporting toddlers at this significant age.
The book explores the context and concepts of wellbeing ......
CHAMPPS is a self-contained preschool motor skills program designed to support physical activity levels and skill development in young children. It comprises seven units: 1) Foundational Motor Skills; 2) Walking and Running; 3) Balance, Hopping, and Jumping; 4) Catching; 5) Throwing; 6) Striking; and 7) Kicking. Each unit includes suggested UDL ......
This practical guide enables those working with young children to better understand, manage and support children's relationship with food. Revealing the different ways in which children can relate to food, it gives accessible guidance and advice about how to help children to develop psychologically healthy eating habits and behaviours, and ......
A Practical Guide to Understanding Brain Development and Young Children's Behaviour
This direct guide supports practitioners in nurturing personal, social and emotional development (PSED) in young children by demystifying brain development research.
Condensing a wealth of recent research and theory around PSED into practical guidance, it gives professionals the knowledge and understanding they ......
How You Can Support Young Children's Language Development
Talking to young children matters, and this friendly, down-to-earth book is your guide to playful, engaging talk that supercharges young minds and sets the stage for school success. Includes critical new research and invaluable downloadable handouts and study guide.
in Early Childhood: A Step-by-Step Guide for Programs and Schools
As early childhood learning environments grow more and more diverse, schools and programs must address inequitable practices and policies so that every child learns, belongs, and thrives
Aiding discussion of gender diversity and sexuality with very young children, this practical guide helps practitioners explore these themes in early years settings. Promoting and extending current good practice, the book offers advice and activities that will support children in discovering their identity and also demonstrates how to work ......
In this practical resource, Tania Swift provides early years professionals and teachers with advice and tips on incorporating physical activities into all key areas of children's learning.
Advancing a movement skills based approach to help teachers deliver learning flexibly, the book identifies how getting children ......
Caroline von Heydebrand, a teacher in the first Waldorf school, traces human development through childhood. She describes the spirit and soul as the child incarnates and how the individual comes to expression in various ways, including the particular temperament; the unique formative forces that give shape to the physical body; the development of ......
Promote positive body image, build self-esteem and tackle body confidence issues in young children with this practical guide.
Over a quarter of childcare professionals have seen body confidence issues in children aged 3-5 years old. This book explains how body image develops, highlights the warning signs of body ......
This book describes effective, engaging ways to build young children's print concepts and alphabetic knowledge, which are crucial for both reading and writing development. Presenting shared reading, shared writing, and targeted instructional activities, each chapter features helpful classroom vignettes, a section debunking myths about preschool ......
Before children are readers and writers, they are speakers and listeners. This book provides creative, hands-on strategies for developing preschoolers' speaking, listening, and oral comprehension skills, within a literacy-rich classroom environment. Each chapter features helpful classroom vignettes; a section called Preschool in Practice, with ......
In this timely and practical book, you'll discover how to support the problem-solving skills of all young children by teaching them basic practices of engineering and five types of critical thinking skills (Curiosity, Persistence, Flexibility, Reflection, and Collaboration) - and discover how to sharpen all these skills as a teacher.
Learn the nuts and bolts of activity-based intervention (ABI), the trusted, child-directed approach for young children birth to 5. With the fourth edition of this classic textbook and professional guide you'll discover how to embed learning opportunities in everyday activities to help children acquire and generalize functional skills and reach ......
60+ top experts share cutting-edge research on applying the RTI approach in a range of early childhood settings. This landmark research volume covers RTI and inclusion, literacy and math, screening & monitoring, family engagement, professional development and more.
Early Childhood Leadership: Motivation, Inspiration, Empowerment is written in a reader-friendly style and offers a wealth of everyday strategies for creating a workplace environment that attracts and retains quality employees, motivates performance, boosts morale, and supports personnel development.
