Children's Lively Minds

Children's Lively Minds
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-08-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 160554695X

Teachers often see repetitive behaviors in toddler and preschool classrooms, such as building and knocking down block towers or dumping out toys. When children do these actions over and over it can be irritating to teachers and parents, but viewing these actions through the lens of schema theory, developed by Jean Piaget, can help understand what’s really going on in children’s brains when they display these repetitive behaviors. Children’s Lively Minds is filled with stories about real children exploring schema, followed by reflection and questions about what children might be learning. Schema theory in your work with young children whether you know it or not. Understanding it, putting intention behind it, can help families and teachers ease frustration with young children’s repetitive behavior and allow adults to better support brain development.

Really Seeing Children

Really Seeing Children
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780942702644

A collection of teaching and learning stories to inspire an everyday practice of reflection, observation, and joyful presence with children.

Little Big Minds

Little Big Minds
Author: Marietta McCarty
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2006-12-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 144064988X

A guide for parents and educators to sharing the enduring ideas of the biggest minds throughout the centuries—from Plato to Jane Addams—with the "littlest" minds. Children are no strangers to cruelty and courage, to love and to loss, and in this unique book teacher and educational consultant Marietta McCarty reveals that they are, in fact, natural philosophers. Drawing on a program she has honed in schools around the country over the last fifteen years, Little Big Minds guides parents and educators in introducing philosophy to K-8 children in order to develop their critical thinking, deepen their appreciation for others, and brace them for the philosophical quandaries that lurk in all of our lives, young or old. Arranged according to themes-including prejudice, compassion, and death-and featuring the work of philosophers from Plato and Socrates to the Dalai Lama and Martin Luther King Jr., this step-by-step guide to teaching kids how to think philosophically is full of excellent discussion questions, teaching tips, and group exercises.

Children's Minds

Children's Minds
Author: Margaret C. Donaldson
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 166
Release: 1979
Genre: Child development
ISBN: 9780393011852

How and when does a child begin to make sense of the world? Why does a lively preschool child so often become a semiliterate and defeated school failure?

The Child's Discovery of the Mind

The Child's Discovery of the Mind
Author: Janet W. Astington
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674116429

Three-year old Emily greets her grandfather at the front door: "We're having a surprise party for your birthday! And it's a secret!" We may smile at incidents like these, but they illustrate the beginning of an important transition in children's lives--their development of a "theory of mind." Emily certainly has some sense of her grandfather's feelings, but she clearly doesn't understand much about what he knows, and surprises--like secrets, tricks, and ties all depend on understanding and manipulating what others think and know. Jean Piaget investigated children's discovery of the mind in the 1920s and concluded that they had little understanding before the age of six. But over the last twenty years, researchers have begun to challenge his methods and revise his conclusions. In The Child's Discovery of the Mind, Janet Astington surveys this lively area of research in developmental psychology. Sometime between the ages of two and five, children begin to have insights into their own mental life and those of others. They begin to understand mental representation--that there is a difference between thoughts in the mind and things in the world, between thinking about eating a cookie and eating a cookie. This breakthrough reflects their emerging capacity to infer other people's thoughts, wants, feelings, and perceptions from words and actions. They come to understand why people act the way they do and can predict how they will act in the future, so that by the age of five, they are knowing participants in social interaction. Astington highlights how crucial children's discovery of the mind is in their social and intellectual development by including a chapter on autistic children, who fail to make this breakthrough. "Mind" is a cultural construct that children discover as they acquire the language and social practices of their culture, enabling them to make sense of the world. Astington provides a valuable overview of current research and of the consequences of this discovery for intellectual and social development.

Learning Together with Young Children

Learning Together with Young Children
Author: Deb Curtis
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1929610971

Provides early childhood teachers a framework for collaborating with children to create a dynamic, emergent curriculum.

Understanding Schemas in Young Children

Understanding Schemas in Young Children
Author: Stella Louis
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2013-06-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 140819435X

What are schemas and why do they matter? Again! Again! provides an introduction to understanding and supporting schemas and schema play in young children. Practitioners will find an overview of schemas with guidance on where they fit within the EYFS. There are examples of schemas, with illustrations and descriptions of common behaviour patterns, and these are set within the general context of child development. The intention is to help early years practitioners identify schemas and to understand both how important they are and the vital role they play in the growing child's learning. The aim is to help the reader understand how they can develop, plan and resource activities which support children's learning through experiment and play.

Loose Parts

Loose Parts
Author: Lisa Daly
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2014-10-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 160554275X

Use loose parts to spark children's creativity and innovation Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children's curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and motivate learning. The hundreds of inspiring photographs showcase an array of loose parts in real early childhood settings. And the overviews of concepts children can learn when using loose parts provide the foundation for incorporating loose parts into your teaching to enhance play and empower children. The possibilities are truly endless.

Loose Parts 4

Loose Parts 4
Author: Lisa Daly
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 714
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605545902

Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials—acorns, hardware, stones, aluminum foil, fabric scraps, for example—that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Loose parts capture children's curiosity, give free rein to their imagination, and encourage creativity. In the newest installment of the wildly popular, award-winning Loose Parts series, Lisa Daly and Miriam Beloglovsky focus on including families and competency building. With inspiring full-color photographs Loose Parts 4 is organized around competencies and life skills children need for success in the future: knowingness, engagement, risk, connections, leadership, innovative thinking, and creativity. Lisa and Miriam explain the value of loose parts, detail how to integrate loose parts into the environment and children’s play, and specifically focus on loose parts for children in family environments—helping educators engage families and extend learning beyond the classroom.

Keeping Your Child in Mind

Keeping Your Child in Mind
Author: Claudia M. Gold
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2011-08-30
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 073821485X

Bringing the magic of empathy to daily life with a child