Guiding Young Children

This popular text, appropriate for both community colleges and universities, has been completely revamped and thoroughly updated with the most current research, expanded coverage of key issues such as brain development and child abuse/neglect, and new material on Response to Intervention (RTI). It continues to equip prospective teachers with the principles and strategies necessary to guide young children, from birth through age 8, in todays diverse classrooms with its direct and practical approach.

Key Features Include:

        More principles and strategies necessary to guide young children in todays diverse classrooms.

        Greater emphasis on developmental theory and research for understanding childrens behavior.

        Clear connections between guidance and guiding cognitive development

        More vignettes and examples about diversity, culture, and disabilities among children.

        Addresses inclusion in every chapter, and covers how to manage children with especially challenging behaviors by taking a positive behavior approach.

        Many suggestions for application assignments that will help the reader get to know individual children they will likely encounter on the job.

        Core concepts addressed include: principles of guidance, values, childrens development, collaboration, strength-based approach to guidance, strategies, self-direction, personal care routines, play and learning, outdoor play, and coping with challenging behavior.