Pre-school and kindergarten

As an early educator, you face many challenges.

Provides guidance for different age levels, gives lesson plans and suggests some criteria by which teachers can measure their pupils progress.

Some chapters focus on interventions for the child, and others on training for the parents and professionals.

When was the last time you got down on your hands and knees to see your classroom from a child's height?

Practical Research with Children is designed to help the reader understand techniques for research with children, based on real world experience.

Exploring the importance of parental engagement in early childhood education, this book delves into research and practices in 25 countries to bring students, researchers, teachers and policy-makers insights into working families around the world.

This book offers guidance on how to provide high quality provision for two year olds.

This book, originally published in 1986, based on extensive original research, presents many findings on the phenomenon of return migration and on its impact on regional economic development.

Play is a vital component of the social life and well-being of both children and adults.

Is your outdoor area working?

Students on Early Years placements face many challenges, from understanding the Early Years Foundation Stage, to coping with the immediate needs of individual children.

Have you ever seen a yeti?

Anyone meeting a young child with autism for the first time will find this fully revised edition of a classic text invaluable.

Demonstrating equitable practices and strategies that move toward culturally sustaining teaching such as translanguaging, explorations of children's literature, alternative modes of literacy assessment, photography and arts integration, student-driven poetry units, and more, this book shares the stories of four teacher-teacher dyads who worked together across university-school contexts to study, generate, and evaluate culturally relevant and sustaining literacy practices in early childhood classrooms across the country.

This vital volume advances understanding of how parenting from childhood to adolescence changes or remains the same in a variety of sociodemographic, psychological, and cultural contexts, providing a truly global understanding of parenting across cultures.

This volume adopts a holistic approach and focuses on the child with special educational needs as an active learner, rather than on how to cope with a disability.

An edited collection describing key issues in supporting literacy development, this book helps to 'unlock' the mysteries behind helping children learn to read, write, speak and listen.

The Leading Edge of Early Childhood Education aims to support the effort to simultaneously scale up and improve the quality of early childhood education by bringing together relevant insights from emerging research to provide guidance for this critical, fledgling field.

An Introduction to the Foundation Phase provides a practical guide to understanding and implementing the Foundation Phase in any early years setting in Wales.

This accessible guide to child development is for students of degrees and foundation degrees in Early Years, Early Childhood Studies and related disciplines and for early years practitioners.

Easy-to-implement strategies for teaching infants, toddlers, and twos with special needs.

This book explores the relationship with time in early childhood by arguing for the valuing of slow pedagogies and slow knowledge.

This fully updated new edition of Teaching Practice for Early Childhood will help student and recently graduated early childhood teachers make the most of their teaching in a variety of early years' settings.

This book presents research on disabled children and young people in sport, physical activity and physical education settings using empirical data gathered either with or from disabled children and young people, centring their experiences and amplifying their voices, while decentralising non-disabled voices in research about them.

This volume summarizes research on important topics in cognitive research and discusses what must be done to apply this research in early elementary classrooms.

A valuable resource for professionals working with pre-school children, or with older children lacking basic literacy skills, this book provides practical photocopiable activities to develop the early skills required for success with literacy.

Growing Mathematical Minds is the documentation of an innovative, bi-directional process of connecting research and practice in early childhood mathematics.

Understanding the Reggio Approach is a much needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Reggio Approach.

Conveying how collections and displays can become the focus for much discussion and debate in circle time, and how they can be linked to other play areas and themes running throughout the nursery, Displays and Interest Tables helps you to: demonstrate the value of young children's efforts stimulate learning through two-and three-dimensional displays create exciting visual features for your setting.

The US Child-Care System Is in Crisis Child care supports every industry in our nation, but the current model simply isn't working.

Teachers of the youngest children at school were the first to bear the brunt of the policies to change the curriculum after the 1988 Education Act.

Pete and Jem get ready for Belle's birthday, but get stuck trying to blow up balloons.

There's a lot of conversation in the early childhood community on evaluating teachers to improve their performance.

There are no words to describe the changes in the lives of families when they learn that a child they love has been diagnosed with autism.

This book explores how young children's language development is intricately connected to the context in which it takes place.

This text offers a comprehensive portfolio of approaches to support young children with refugee backgrounds.

Welcoming Young Children into the Museum provides all of the information practitioners need to consider when making the decision to engage with this audience and their carers.

Bullying is a widespread and concerning issue that affects children of all ages.

This book takes a detailed look at the complex area of young children's play as it is understood in the early twenty-first century, and in particular at the relationships between play, learning and teaching which are enacted in early childhood settings, across countries as different as England and the USA, Sweden and the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.

This book explores the impact of digital media on young children's lives and the role that the media and news industries play in the social construction of childhood.

Applied Theatre with Youth is a collection of essays that highlight the value and efficacy of applied theatre with young people in a broad range of settings, addressing challenges and offering concrete solutions.

Die Zusammenarbeit mit Eltern in der Kindertagesstätte wird oft als sehr herausfordernd erlebt.

The Evidence-based Parenting Practitioner's Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the knowledge necessary to effectively deliver evidence-based parenting interventions within community and health settings.

More than 50 movement activities for toddlersPhysical education is a critical part of every early childhood curriculum.

What is meant by high quality observation in the early years?

Activities to help children develop sense of security and self-worth by becoming familiar with themselves and the world around them.

Multi-Tiered Systems of Support in Elementary Schools is the leadership handbook and practitioner's field guide to implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) in elementary schools, leading to improved student outcomes and school safety.

Adopting a fresh approach to the assumptions and concepts which underlie musical learning, Taking a Learner-Centred Approach to Music Education provides comprehensive guidance on professional and pedagogical aspects of learner-centred practice.

Foundationsof Mathematicsoutlines seven strands of practice which underpin successful mathematicaldevelopment inchildren aged 3-7.