In an engaging, reader-friendly style, the author describes developmentally appropriate guidance in the encouraging classroom. With this approach, teachers think beyond the kind of conventional classroom discipline that aims merely to keep children in line—and often fails even to do that! Gartrell shows teachers how to help children develop lifelong skills such as mutual acceptance and cooperation, creative and peaceful problem-solving strategies, and acceptable ways to express difficult emotions. Includes a special chapter on guidance with boys. Copublished with Thomson Delmar Learning.

This instructional, interactive DVD includes 28 video clips of varying lengths captured in actual early childhood classrooms. The clips are divided into six instructional categories: Prevention in Action, Positive Guidance in Action, Learning Opportunities, Developing Observation Skills, Case Study: Pre-Intervention, and Case Study: Intervention. A 60-page Trainer Guide is included on the disc, with suggestions for using each video clip in training, leading group discussions, and conducting small group activities. From the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative and Video Active Productions.

40 min.

Facing the Challenge is an instructional, interactive DVD video developed by the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI) and Video Active Productions in partnership with NAEYC. Training and documentary material help teachers learn how to prevent children’s use of difficult behaviors and develop intervention strategies to work with children who use challenging behaviors to meet their needs.

Disc 1:

–What is challenging behavior?

–Developmentally appropriate behavior

–Why do kids misbehave?

–Parents as partners

–Skill Development Study #1

Disc 2:

–Prevention strategies

–Behavioral Planning I

–Behavioral Planning II

–Intervention strategies

–Skill Development Study #2

Discs are available separately, or as a 2-DVD set. Disc 2: #8015; 2-DVD set: #8016.

Guiding Children's Behavior is a comprehensive guide to classroom management, emphasizing observation as the best way to determine developmentally appropriate interventions. By following a process for observing children, educators will learn how to see beyond children’s manifest behavior to focus on their motivations, needs, and interests. Featuring a series of chapters organized by age, from birth through elementary school, this book helps teachers to individualize discipline practices; offers supportive vignettes and a menu of developmentally appropriate strategies that teachers can choose from; includes a training module to help teachers, administrators, and parents work together to create more consistency between home and school; and provides useful forms. From Teachers College Press. 

Some early childhood programs have adopted no-touch policies, and others allow only a very minimal level of physical contact between teachers and children. Yet touch is as necessary as food or water for young children to thrive and grow physically, cognitively, socially, and emotionally. Experiences of touch in all its forms—whether nurturing touch from adults, tactile explorations of the environment, or physical interactions with peers—are essential to high-quality early care and education. From this book, practitioners will learn just why touch is essential to young children’s development and how it can be incorporated safely into early childhood settings, from the infant program to the primary classroom.

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This invaluable resource for preservice and practicing teachers provides strategies for addressing challenging behaviors and in-depth explanations of the research on which they are based. Vivid classroom examples illuminate evidence-based techniques that work with the most difficult behaviors to benefit every child in the classroom. In this second edition, new chapters are offered on inclusion and relationships, as well as a totally revised chapter on positive behavior support and functional assessment. Also includes chapters on resilience, culture, and working with families, and updated material on the brain and bullying. From Allyn & Bacon.

Spanish version of "Building Circles, Breaking Cycles—Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: The Early Childhood Educator's Role" (#DD2). This brochure helps early childhood educators realize they have a role in preventing—not just reporting—child abuse and neglect. Empowers educators to use their knowledge and skills to support families in a variety of ways to help prevent harm to children. A companion discussion guide is also available.

The second edition of this highly acclaimed book is a must for early childhood educators, parents, and policy makers. It helps teachers create a Peaceable Classroom where children learn peaceful alternatives to the violent behaviors modeled for them in society. This extensively revised and updated edition features new material for a post-September 11th world, including a new chapter on helping children deal with violence in the news. An essential resource for anyone who works with children. Copublished with Educators for Social Responsibility.

Spanish translation of "Love & Learn: Positive Guidance for Young Children" (#528).

Discipline need not be punitive! Children’s immediate desires often conflict with those of the adults who care for them. This brochure discusses positive ways in which parents and caregivers can reduce typical difficulties by employing positive solutions to guide children’s behavior. As children grow older, maintaining reasonable expectations and respecting children’s feelings are important for nurturing their self-control and emotional health.

This brochure helps early childhood educators realize they have a role in preventing—not just reporting—child abuse and neglect. Empowers educators to use their knowledge and skills to support families in a variety of ways to help prevent harm to children. A companion discussion guide is also available. 

Also available in Spanish (#DD2S).