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POWER OF PROJECTS by Judy Harris Helm (Editor); Sallee Beneke (Editor); Leslie R. Williams (Series edited by)
$40.70 AUD
Category: Teaching Resources | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
This timely volume will help teachers on the front line to tackle the key challenges they face in today's classrooms with children ages 3-8. The authors show how good project work can provide solutions to problems that seem overwhelming to many teachers of young children. In The Power of Projects, a gro ...Show more
Playing to Get Smart by Elizabeth Jones & Renatta M Cooper-
$56.00 AUD
Category: Parenting | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
Practicing what it preaches, this book offers a playful reading experience for teachers and parents alike. With jokes, riddles, and stories sprinkled throughout, this book shows how important play is for children of all ethnic and socioeconomic groups, from birth to age eight. First published November ...Show more
Powerful Children: Understanding How to Teach and Learn Using the Reggio Approach by Ann Lewin-Benham
$65.00 AUD
Category: Teaching Resources | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
In "Possible Schools", Ann Lewin-Benham showed us that we can create schools that engage the minds of children and involve parents, even in urban settings. In this book, she describes projects in a school that successfully adapted the Reggio Approach with Head Start-eligible children. She explains how t ...Show more
SEEN AND HEARD CHILDRENS RIGHTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION by Ellen Lynn Hall; Jennifer Kofkin Rudkin; Sharon Ryan (Series edited by)
$44.00 AUD
Category: Diversity (Multicultural) | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
Using examples from a Reggio-inspired school with children from ages 6 weeks to 6 years, the authors emphasize the importance of children's rights and our responsibility as adults to hear their voices. Seen and Heard summarizes research and theory pertaining to young children's rights in the United Stat ...Show more
STARTING WITH THEIR STRENGTHS by Deborah C. Lickey; Denise J. Powers; Sharon Ryan (Series edited by)
$112.00 AUD
Category: Inclusion (Special Needs) | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to using the project approach when teaching young children with special needs. While focusing on children's individual strengths, which include their interests, intelligences, and unique styles of learning, this resource demonstrates teaching strate ...Show more
STORY IN THE PICTURE INQUIRY AND ARTMAKING WITH YOUNG CHILDR by Christine Mulcahey
$37.40 AUD
Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
When children look at works of art they tell stories, share experiences, imagine, and explore. This book provides teachers with the skills, and freedom, to design rich and open-ended art experiences for young children. The author looks at the work of a variety of artists and offers guidance for using th ...Show more
SUPERVISION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION by Joseph Caruso; M. Temple Fawcett
$0.00 AUD
Category: Staff Development | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
This volume provides guidelines and practical suggestions for staff training and development in early childhood settings. It offers information on career ladders and lattices as well as a focus on the importance of collaboration among staff and between supervisors and staff members.
School Children As Agents of Change - Raising up Critical Thinking and Judgment in the Early Years by Emanuela Guarcello (Editor); Abele Longo (Editor)
$275.00 AUD
Category: Education | Series: Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education Ser.
This edited volume promotes the capacity for critical thinking and judgement in primary school-aged children in the face of the challenges that schools encounter in today's society. Foregrounding critical thinking and judgement as essential capacities for children to develop, each chapter offers a space ...Show more
TELLING A DIFFERENT STORY by Catherine Wilson; Leslie R. Williams (Series edited by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Language and Literacy | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
This clear, thought-provoking close study of teaching practices invites us into the classroom of a Head Start teacher and her assistant as they confront the challenges of early childhood education. Through classroom scenes and dialogue, Catherine Wilson explores the role that reading to children plays i ...Show more
TWELVE BEST PRACTICES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION by Ann Lewin-Benham; Howard Gardner (Foreword by); Sharon Ryan (Series edited by)
$103.40 AUD
Category: Teaching Resources | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
In her new book, popular author Ann Lewin-Benham draws on her intimate knowledge and experience with the Reggio Approach to present 12 "best practices" inspired not only by Reggio, but also by play-based and Montessori approaches to early childhood education. These practices are demonstrated, one per ch ...Show more
TWELVE BEST PRACTICES FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION by Ann Lewin-Benham; Howard Gardner (Foreword by); Sharon Ryan (Series edited by)
$51.70 AUD
Category: Teaching Resources | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
In her new book, popular author Ann Lewin-Benham draws on her intimate knowledge and experience with the Reggio Approach to present 12 "best practices" inspired not only by Reggio, but also by play-based and Montessori approaches to early childhood education. These practices are demonstrated, one per ch ...Show more
The Play's the Thing : Teachers' Roles in Children's Play by Elizabeth Jones & Gretchen Reynolds
$58.95 AUD
Category: Parenting | Series: Early Childhood Education Ser.
The traditional role for teachers in children's play was to structure it, setting rules and interrupting if things got "out of hand". However, for children three to five, sociodramatic play is a way to invent and make familiar the rhythms and actions of everyday life. First published 1992.