Skills for Preschool Teachers
ISBN: 9780130388407 | 0130388408
Edition: 9thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Pearson
Pub. Date: 1/4/2011
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For over two decades,Skills for Preschool Teachershas prepared teachers, teaching assistants, college students, classroom volunteers, and CDA candidates to work with children three-to-five years of age in preschools, center-based child care, Head Starts, and pre-kindergartens. The skills for working with young children are presented in 13 easily-readable, fact-filled chapters, each of which is based on one of the CDA "functional areas": safe, healthy, learning environment, physical, cognitive, communication, creative, self-concept, social, guid... MORE
Introduction
Chapter 1 Maintaining a Safe Classroom
Chapter 2 Maintaining a Healthy Classroom
Chapter 3 Etablishing a Learning Environment
Chapter 4 Advancing Physical Skills
Chapter 5 Advancing Cognitive Skills
Chapter 6 Advancing Communication Skills
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Chapter 8 Building a Positive Self-Concept
Chapter 9 Promoting Social Skills
Chapter 10 Providing Guidance
Chapter 11 Promoting Family Involvement
Chapter 12 Providing Program Management
Chapter 13 Promoting Professionalism
Appendix A Becoming a CDA: Child Development Associate
Appendix B Teacher Skills Checklist for Infant and Toddler Programs
Index
Janice J. Beaty, professor emerita, Elmira College, Elmira, New York, is a full-time writer of early childhood college textbooks and a consultant and trainer in early childhood education from her new home in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Some of her textbooks include: Observing Development of the Young Child (6th Ed.), Prosocial Guidance for the Preschool Child, and, most recent, Early Literacy in Preschool and Kindergarten (2nd Ed.) with Dr. Linda Pratt. Dr. Beaty is also involved in an early literacy mentoring program with Foster Grandparents in schools and Head Start centers in central Missouri.
