A Guide to Planning Your Curriculum, Teaching Through Learning Centers, and Just About Everything Else
"This indispensable new edition is a must-have for every early childhood teacher. Explaining how to manage a classroom while encouraging children to make good choices and assume greater responsibility for managing their own behavior (among many other things!), the book will help new teachers get started and veteran teachers improve what they're already doing." -Sharon MacDonald, Education Consultant Create an inviting, high-quality early childhood classroom! Many excellent teachers find themselves bewildered when teaching three- to six-year-olds, especially if their professional preparation was focused on the elementary grades. While they may recognize children's unique learning styles and special needs, they may not know how to handle noise, activity, and even messes in classrooms that revolve around hands-on learning centers. In this updated edition of a classic, teacher trainer Dianne Miller Nielsen guides teachers through the basics, from lesson planning and developing daily schedules to arranging furniture and managing classroom activities. The book also offers suggestions to enhance learning through modeling, purposeful interactions, and conversations. The variety of updated topics in Teaching Young Children, Second Edition include: Setting up and managing an ABC center to develop children's understanding of the alphabetic principle Setting up and managing a computer center to bring new technology into the classroom and extend literacy skills Involving parents and families inside and outside the classroom Sidebar teacher tips peppered throughout, from activities and ideas ("Try This") to important concepts to remember ("Keep in Mind") This comprehensive handbook provides absolutely everything that preschool and kindergarten teachers need to create a high-quality, child-centered classroom!
A Guide to Planning Your Curriculum, Teaching Through Learning Centers, and Just About Everything Else
"This indispensable new edition is a must-have for every early childhood teacher. Explaining how to manage a classroom while encouraging children to make good choices and assume greater responsibility for managing their own behavior (among many other things!), the book will help new teachers get started and veteran teachers improve what they're already doing." -Sharon MacDonald, Education Consultant Create an inviting, high-quality early childhood classroom! Many excellent teachers find themselves bewildered when teaching three- to six-year-olds, especially if their professional preparation was focused on the elementary grades. While they may recognize children's unique learning styles and special needs, they may not know how to handle noise, activity, and even messes in classrooms that revolve around hands-on learning centers. In this updated edition of a classic, teacher trainer Dianne Miller Nielsen guides teachers through the basics, from lesson planning and developing daily schedules to arranging furniture and managing classroom activities. The book also offers suggestions to enhance learning through modeling, purposeful interactions, and conversations. The variety of updated topics in Teaching Young Children, Second Edition include: Setting up and managing an ABC center to develop children's understanding of the alphabetic principle Setting up and managing a computer center to bring new technology into the classroom and extend literacy skills Involving parents and families inside and outside the classroom Sidebar teacher tips peppered throughout, from activities and ideas ("Try This") to important concepts to remember ("Keep in Mind") This comprehensive handbook provides absolutely everything that preschool and kindergarten teachers need to create a high-quality, child-centered classroom!
Successful Strategies and Practical Interventions for PreK-3
Though many books exist to help teachers of school-age children with ADHD, not much has been written with the early childhood educator in mind. This unique book is specifically written for preschool and early elementary educators. Its focus is not to discuss guidelines for diagnosing ADHD in young children, but to provide PreKu3 teachers with a better understanding of the disorder, how to recognize it, and how it impacts both social-emotional and educational development. Children who exhibit ADHD behaviors need early educational support to minimize learning challenges and classroom disruption. The authors present a variety of strategies for classroom adaptations (both environmental and instructional), as well as practical interventions to develop appropriate social skills, manage classroom behavior, help children with ADHD master the particularly challenging task of writing, and communicate effectively with parents. One chapter reviews what teachers should know about medications and how they affect behavior in the classroom. An extensive Resource section at the end of the book offers detailed profiles of children in preschool and primary grades diagnosed with ADHD. Though this book has been written to help children who struggle with attentional issues, teachers will find the strategies applicable for all children in their classrooms.
Practical Strategies and Lesson Plans for Grades 2-8
"What a gift! I used your book from the first day. Using your guidelines, I am now developing my own units and rubrics." Rebecca Kennerly, Student, Resident Teacher Program University of New Mexico Take the guesswork out of writing instruction and assessment! The step-by-step instructions, scheduling guidelines, lesson plans, rubric ......
Practical Strategies and Lesson Plans for Grades 2-8
"What a gift! I used your book from the first day. Using your guidelines, I am now developing my own units and rubrics." Rebecca Kennerly, Student, Resident Teacher Program University of New Mexico Take the guesswork out of writing instruction and assessment! The step-by-step instructions, scheduling guidelines, lesson plans, rubric ......
"As a writing teacher for twenty-some years, I wish I'd had access to this material." -Marilee Sprenger, Educational Consultant Seattle Pacific University "Helps teachers see how to approach writing in ways that make it fresh, relevant, and accessible." -Carol Ann Tomlinson, Professor of Educational Leadership University of Virginia "True to one of the basic tenets of writing, the book shows rather than tells . . . . This makes for a fun and engaging read." -Erin Sullivan, Research Associate University of Connecticut Are your picture-smart, music-smart, and body-smart learners lagging behind their word-smart and number-smart peers? Donovan Walling offers innovative new ways to help these learners become effective writers! With an emphasis on matching teaching method to learning style and developing both basic writing competencies and higher-level thinking skills, this resource offers instructional strategies, sample lessons, and pathways to fluency that focus on Organizing ideas "artistically" Using walkabout strategies to clarify concepts Using pattern and rhythm for writing sense, and much more Twelve sample lessons and a learning styles self-assessment make this an essential resource for teachers, literacy coaches, and curriculum designers who want to expand writing curriculum and incorporate more non-linear methods into their instructional repertoires.
Teaching writing that is relevant to your students and their futures What kind of writing do we do beyond school? It certainly isn't the well known 5-paragraph essay or tight iambic pentameter. In today's workforce, the purpose of writing is to communicate complex ideas specific to career fields. Students need more than simply mastering academic writing, so Teaching Writing From Content Classroom to Career shows how to combine writing instruction teachers already share - language selection, tone, voice, audience, organization, and style - with meaningful writing tasks so students can connect classroom writing to the world of work and their futures. Authors Maria C. Grant, Diane Lapp, and Marisol Thayre explain ways to show students how writing works in the world of work with: Ready-to-go lesson plans focused on relevant, world of work writing tasks and formats An overarching rubric of key skills as well as student-self-assessment rubrics to make instruction and implementation crystal clear Downloadable and reproducible tools for both students and teachers for ease of implementation Exemplar mentor texts from the workplace in multiple disciplines that showcase writing's essential connections to workforce readiness Suggestions for using AI to generate exemplar texts, and Examples of how to be a successful communicator who knows how and when to move in and out of different modes of language. Full of tools, resources, and strategies that are easy to implement and seamlessly overlay school writing curriculum, this book sets students on the path to academic and career success through writing.
Focused Learning and Achievement Through Instructional Graphics Co-Created by Students and Teachers
Visual representations of course content are essential tools in today's classrooms. They can offset the challenges associated with teaching diverse student populations while simultaneously bringing instructional techniques into greater harmony with the growing influence of technology and the visual media on the way students process information. ......
"The author empowers teachers to engage IT specialists or administrators in a discussion about the use of mobile technologies or Web 2.0 tools and to change the way we think about using technology with kids. This book gives readers lots of information (ammunition) to go out and make things happen with their cell phone, laptop, MP3 player, or digital camera!" -April DeGennaro, Gifted Education Teacher Fayette County Board of Education, Fayetteville, GA A foundational guide for integrating mobile technologies into your classroom! Writing for educators who want to use 21st-century technologies to help deliver relevant classroom instruction, Susan Brooks-Young examines inexpensive hardware already used by many students, explores free Web 2.0 tools such as social networking sites and virtual worlds, and sheds light on both common objections and changing points of view about using mobile technologies for instructional support. Emphasizing digital citizenship-the ethical use of technology-this invaluable resource identifies: Specific Web 2.0 tools for supporting collaboration and communication in K-12 settings Strategies for practical applications A decision-making model for selecting appropriate mobile technologies and Web 2.0 tools for classroom use Recommended books, Web sites, and online reports and articles for reference Teaching With the Tools Kids Really Use gives educators a solid approach for capitalizing on readily available technologies and opens up rich teaching and learning opportunities for today's classrooms!
