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The Peaceful Classroom |
162 easy activities to teach preschoolers compassion and cooperation. |
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The Optimistic Classroom:
Creative ways to give children hope |
Over 70 easy, practical activities highlight the following strengths and help teach children hope:
Self-esteem, perseverance, responsibility, cause and effect, empathy, optimism and hope.... |
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Making It Better: Activities for children living in a stressful world. |
The 70+ practical classroom activities presented in this book are based on sound research and offer guidance on how to seize opportunities to reach children, and help them survive, thrive and heal. |
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The Kindness Curriculum: Introducing young children to loving values |
Activities focusing on empathy, gentleness, respect, self-control, problem-solving, and love. |
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Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child |
The pedagogy of how one can develop and foster attachment, emotional literacy, authentic communication, and social inclusion. |
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An Activity-Based Approach to Developing Young Children's Social Emotional Competence |
A ready-to-use, start-to-finish linked system for identifying concerns and improving young children's social emotional health. |
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Keeping Your Smile: Caring for Children with Joy, Love, and Intention |
Strategies, stories, activities, tips, and tools to help you learn how to take action before stress takes over and keep your head and heart in the right place while caring for children. |
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Challenging Behaviour in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing and Responding Effectively. |
Background information and strategies to help practicing teachers understand, prevent and address the behaviour problems found so often in today’s child care centres. |
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Guidance of Young Children |
Designed to help students construct a developmentally appropriate approach to guiding children. |
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Beyond Behaviour Management |
Six life skills children need to thrive in today's world. A strength-based approach to guiding and managing young children's behaviour by helping them build, and use, essential life skills. |
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Developmental Profiles: Pre-Birth through twelve |
A comprehensive yet nontechnical, easy-to-follow guide to children's development. |
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Infant and Toddler Development and Responsive Program Planning |
A comprehensive, applied text covering infant and toddler development from prebirth through age 36 months, curriculum and program planning, and guidance using a relationship-based model. |
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Children: A Chronological Approach |
Chronologically organized from infancy through adolescence, this book provides many applications to demonstrate how research translates into practice. |
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Early Learning for Every Child Today: A framework for Ontario's early childhood settings |
Describes how young children learn and develop, and provides a guide for curriculum in Ontario's early childhood settings. |
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The Art of Awareness |
How observation can transform your teaching. |
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Reflecting Children's Lives |
Learn how to sharpen your observation and documentation skills, set up your space, and transform your teaching to reflect children's interests and needs. |
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Developing Reflective Practice in the Early Years |
This book will help early years practitioners develop their reflective skills, enabling them to confidently articulate their practice, values, and beliefs. |
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Reflective Practice and Early Years Professionalism |
Jennie Lindon explains the nature of reflective practice, and how the understanding and skills can be applied within early years provision. |
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You and Others: Reflective Practice for Group Effectiveness in Human Services |
This text is designed to help students link group theory to group practice through the use of real-life examples in human service. |
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Learning Together with Young Children |
Inspires you to create a classroom culture that welcomes and nourishes children and families. |
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Designs for Living and Learning |
Outlines hundreds of ways to create healthy and inviting physical, social and emotional environments for children in child care. |
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Inspiring Spaces for Young Children |
Step-by-step instructions and lush photographs take educators through the process of transforming ordinary classrooms into creative, beautiful learning spaces. |
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Rating Observation Scale for Inspiring Environments |
This assessment tool invites teachers to take a more extensive look at creating beautiful learning environments. |
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Focused Portfolios |
Documenting children's discoveries as well as their challenges, teachers and caregivers can more effectively adapt teaching styles and curriculum for each child in their care. |
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Visions of Creativity in Early Childhood |
Support the children as they discover, explore and experience their world. A collection of teachers' stories and reflections. |
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A Child's Work: the Importance of Fantasy Play |
Discussing the critical role of fantasy play in the psychological, intellectual, and social development of young children. |
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The Preschool Scientist |
Using learning centres to discover and explore science. |
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Incredible Edible Science |
Recipes for developing science and literacy skills. |
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The Language of Art |
Advice on setting up a studio space for art and inquiry practices in early childhood settings. |
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First Art |
Creative art experiences designed for toddlers and twos. |
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The Big Messy Art Book |
Open the door for children to explore art on a grander, more expressive scale. |
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50 Christmas Crafts |
Easy-to-follow techniques,with all special equipment clearly explained, and helpful tips throughout. |
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Hey Kids! Out the Door, Let's Explore |
Use children's interests as starting points to plan walks that are meaningful and engaging. |
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Hollyhocks and Honeybees |
Garden projects for young children. |
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Lens on Outdoor Learning |
Nature sets the stage for endless opportunities of discovery, exploration, and appreciation when children's innate curiosity is encouraged. |
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Partnerships: Families and Communities in Early Childhood Development |
This book gives the necessary tools to encourage the development of positive and respectful relationships with all types of families. |
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Parent-Friendly Early Learning |
Tips and Strategies for working well with families. (Transform parent concerns into parent partnerships) |
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Breaking the Ice |
How to improve your on-the-spot communication skills. |
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A Winning Attitude |
The secret to success is to learn how to manage your attitude to get the results you want. |
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New & Improved! 25 Ways to be More Creative and More Effective. |
A unique guide to discovering, developing, and expressing your personal creativity. |
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All About the ITERS-R (infant/toddler environment rating scale-revised) |
A resource guide to be used with the ITERS-R rating scale. It gives information on why each item is important, what is needed to meet the requirements, and how to score. |
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Infant/Toddler Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition |
Designed for use in centre-based child care programs for infants and toddlers up to 30 months of age to evaluate programs and teaching staff. |
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All About the ECERS-R (early childhood environment rating scale-revised) |
A resource guide to be used with the ECERS-R rating scale. It gives information on why each item is important, what is needed to meet the requirements, and how to score. |
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Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised Edition |
Designed for use in preschools and kindergarten programs for children 2 1/2 to 5 years of age to evaluate programs and teaching staff. |
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School-Age Care Environment Rating Scale |
The content of this assessment tool was developed especially for programs serving school-age children. |
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The Best Gluten-Free Family Cookbook |
These recipes offer numerous ideas for healthy, tasty meals that the whole family can enjoy- yet they are ideally suited for gluten-free diets. |
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The Visionary Director |
Create a larger vision in your child care program and perform your job as a centre director with motivation and creativity. |
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Program Administration Scale |
Measuring early childhood leadership and management. |
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Measuring Performance: The Early Childhood Educator in Practice |
A professional development tool that permits continual fine-tuning and improvement of your practice in the education and care for young children. |
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Training Teachers |
A harvest of theory and practice that offers inspiration and ideas. |
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Creating Connections: How to Lead Family Child Care Support Groups |
Outlines tested motivational and empowerment strategies for creating and sustaining support groups, and potentially improving child care practices. |
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Quality Matters in Child Care |
A review of the common caregiver behaviours and program characteristics that are associated with positive outcomes for children. |
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The Adult Learner |
The definitive classic in adult education and human resource development. |
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Early Childhood Workshops that Work |
A comprehensive guide that illustrates how to design, organize, conduct, and evaluate early childhood workshops. |
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Building Your Bounce: Simple strategies for a resilient you. |
Activities for early years professionals focusing on relationships, internal beliefs, initiative and self-control. |
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DECA Program Kit for Infants and Toddlers |
An assessment tool to enhance children's social and emotional development. |
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Infant and Toddler Strategies Guide (DECA) |
Promoting Infant and toddler social and emotional health in early care and education programs. |
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DECA Program Kit for Preschoolers |
An assessment tool to enhance children's social and emotional development. |
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Classroom Strategies |
To promote children’s social and emotional development |
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Songs of Resilience |
The manual provides teachers tips on how to integrate the songs on the CDs with other activities and children's literature that promote resilience. |
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Focused Observations |
How to observe young children for assessment and curriculum planning
DVD and booklet with discussion questions, observation practice exercises and reflection assignments. |
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Classroom Moments |
Video clips to enhance early childhood observation and training. |
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Facing the Challenge |
Facing the Challenge is an instructional, interactive DVD that includes over two hours of training and documentary video designed to help teachers learn how to prevent children’s use of difficult behaviours and how to develop intervention strategies to work with children who use challenging behaviours to meet their needs. |
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Leave No Child Inside: Outdoor ECE Program Environments |
This DVD can be used as a self-study tool or in workshops. It begins with a consideration of planning the outdoors as carefully as the indoors. Many pictures to guide and inspire. |
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Giving Children More Languages |
This DVD can be used as a self-study tool or in workshops. It reviews ways for children to see themselves as thinkers, artists and communicators. Many pictures to guide and inspire. |
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Thinking Big: Extending Emergent Curriculum Projects |
Two teachers guide their preschoolers to deepen their learning as they represent their ideas with different art media. |
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Children at the Center: Reflective Teachers at Work |
Follow five early childhood teachers as they rethink their work and change their practice. |
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Side By Side: Mentoring Teachers for Reflective Practice |
Follow two child care programs as they design a mentoring program to guide their teachers in becoming better observers and curriculum developers, drawing on the children's interests. |
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Right From the Start |
An interactive multi-media DVD designed to strengthen early childhood program administrators in the challenging work of hiring, orienting and supporting teachers to become reflective and intentional in their work. |
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| Children's Books |
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How Full Is Your Bucket |
Tom Rath & Mary Reckmeyer |
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The Runaway Bunny |
Margaret Wise Brown |
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New Junior Cook Book |
Better Homes and Gardens |
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No, David! |
David Shannon |
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David Goes to School |
David Shannon |
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David Gets in Trouble |
David Shannon |
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I Can’t Wait |
Elizabeth Crary |
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I Want It |
Elizabeth Crary |
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Mommy, Don’t Go |
Elizabeth Crary |
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The Way I Feel |
Janan Cain |
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What to Do When You Grumble Too Much |
Dawn Huebner |
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Toad Makes a Road |
Phil Roxbee Cox & Stephen Cartwright |
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The Carrot Seed |
Ruth Krauss |
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Allie's Basketball Dream |
Barbara E. Barber |
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Lucky Song |
Vera B. Williams |
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Cleversticks |
Bernard Ashley |
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Owl Babies |
Martin Waddell |
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Mean Soup |
Betsy Everitt |
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Bunny Cakes |
Rosemary Wells |
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When Sophie Gets Angry - Really, Really Angry |
Molly Bang |
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Terry Fox: A Story of Hope |
Maxine Trottier |
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