Description : Drawing on the author's 25 years in early childhood education, Guiding Young Children: A Problem-Solving Approach introduces future childcare providers and preschool teachers to a child-centered philosophy of education and care. The problem-solving approach encourages "kids to do what kids do" as they learn to take responsibility for their words and actions. Through real-life examples, sample dialogues, and numerous photographs and posters, the problem-solving approach is explained, stressing environment first, then progressing to listening skills, negotiating, conflict resolution, and setting limits.
New Features :
Working with Parents: A thoroughly revised Chapter 10 includes extensive coverage on working with parents to solve problems, initiating and conducting parent/teacher conferences, and detailed analyses of actual parent/teacher conferences conducted by the author.
Grief and Trauma: The coverage of behavior challenges in Chapter 8 has been expanded to include issues that may arise from a child's experience of grief or trauma.
Retained Features :
Problem-solving, child-centered approach: The text encourages teacher candidates to see themselves in the roles of communicator, observer, supervisor, and facilitator. The objective is to build on the developmental needs of the children, providing children with freedom and safety, developmentally appropriate learning opportunities, and the tools needed to accept responsibility at their own level.
Developmentally appropriate practices: Guiding Young Children recognizes that a child?s resistance to limits may be developmentally appropriate as children take risks and challenge themselves. Included are suggestions for providing a child-centered environment that eliminates many behavior problems. When conflicts arise, the text describes strategies for validating children?s feelings, encouraging children to negotiate, setting limits respectfully, and affirming children?s positive behavior.
Table of Contents :
Preface
1. The Program and the Philosophy: An Overview
2. Setting Up the Problem-Solving Environment
3. Supervising Young Children
4. Listening for Feelings
5. Negotiation
6. Setting Limits
7. Affirmations
8. Problem Solving for Problem Behavior
9. The Problem-Solving Approach to Curriculum
10. Working with Parents and Peers
About the Author:
Eleanor Reynolds Sorry. No Biographical Information Currently Available.
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Guiding Young Children