The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce

The Early Childhood Care and Education Workforce
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-02-10
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 030921937X

Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with a solid beginning in all areas of their development. The quality and efficacy of these settings depend largely on the individuals within the ECCE workforce. Policy makers need a complete picture of ECCE teachers and caregivers in order to tackle the persistent challenges facing this workforce. The IOM and the National Research Council hosted a workshop to describe the ECCE workforce and outline its parameters. Speakers explored issues in defining and describing the workforce, the marketplace of ECCE, the effects of the workforce on children, the contextual factors that shape the workforce, and opportunities for strengthening ECCE as a profession.

Early Childhood Workshops that Work!

Early Childhood Workshops that Work!
Author: Nancy P. Alexander
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876592151

Effective training and workshops are easier than you think.

From Survive to Thrive

From Survive to Thrive
Author: Debbie LeeKeenan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2018
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781938113369

Theory meets practical tips in this guide for leaders of early childhood programs

Transforming Teaching

Transforming Teaching
Author: Marie Masterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2021-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781938113833

Child-centered lesson planning provides a system to strengthen teaching. Great lesson planning helps teachers to choose a range of strategies that match what children are learning and doing-- from directed mini-lessons to facilitated group activities.

Early Learning Environments that Work

Early Learning Environments that Work
Author: Rebecca T. Isbell
Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Classroom environment
ISBN: 0876592566

Noting that the early care and education environment is a vital contribution to children's learning, this book examines the early childhood learning environment with the vision of making it a place where young children will be physically, emotionally, esthetically, and intellectually nurtured. The chapters are: (1) "The Power of the Environment and Its Impact on Children"; (2) "Contemporary Childcare Spaces"; (3) "The Teacher's New Role: Designer"; (4) "Principles of Meaningful Environments"; (5) "Aspects of Quality Environments for Children"; (6) "Assessing What You Have"; (7) "Making a Plan That Works for You"; (8) "The Designer's Toolbox"; (9) "Enriching the Environment," including ideas for using displays, planning work and sitting spaces, and growing plants; and (10)"Extending Your Understanding," including classic resources about early childhood environments. Each chapter includes detailed illustrations and photographs to assist teachers in setting up a classroom. The book's 10 appendices include an inventory form, equipment checklist, team inventory, storage ideas, and an anthropometric chart for a child-scaled environment. (Contains 79 references.) (KB)

Finding Your Smile Again

Finding Your Smile Again
Author: Jeff A. Johnson
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605541990

Using warmth and humor, this book offers techniques for dealing with the everyday stress of being a childcare professional. Written by a caregiver who’s been there, it describes the symptoms and causes of burnout, with advice to get through each challenge.

Why Is My Child in Charge?

Why Is My Child in Charge?
Author: Claire Lerner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2021-09-02
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 153814901X

Solve toddler challenges with eight key mindshifts that will help you parent with clarity, calmness, and self-control. In Why is My Child in Charge?, Claire Lerner shows how making critical mindshifts—seeing children’s behaviors through a new lens —empowers parents to solve their most vexing childrearing challenges. Using real life stories, Lerner unpacks the individualized process she guides parents through to settle common challenges, such as throwing tantrums in public, delaying bedtime for hours, refusing to participate in family mealtimes, and resisting potty training. Lerner then provides readers with a roadmap for how to recognize the root cause of their child’s behavior and how to create and implement an action plan tailored to the unique needs of each child and family. Why is My Child in Charge? is like having a child development specialist in your home. It shows how parents can develop proven, practical strategies that translate into adaptable, happy kids and calm, connected, in-control parents.

Art Workshop for Children

Art Workshop for Children
Author: Barbara Rucci
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1631593250

Art Workshop for Children is not just another book of straightforward art projects. The book's unique child-led approach provides a framework for cultivating creative thinking and encourages the wonder that comes when children are allowed to freely explore the creative process and their materials. As children work through these open-ended workshops, adults are guided on how to be facilitators who provide questions, encourage deep thinking, and help spark an excitement for discovery. Children explore basic materials and workshops that use minimal supplies, and then gradually add new materials to fill the art cabinets as well as new skills and more complex workshops. Most workshops are suitable to preschool-aged children, and each contains ideas for explorations and new twists to engage older or more experienced artists. Interspersed throughout are sidebar essays that introduce perspectives on mess-making, imperfection, the role of adult, collaborative art, and thoughts on the Reggio Emilia method, a self-guided teaching philosophy. These pieces underscore the value of art-making with children, and support the parent/teacher/care-giver on how to successfully lead, question, and navigate their children through the workshops to result in the fullest experiences.

Getting to Positive Outcomes for Children in Child Care

Getting to Positive Outcomes for Children in Child Care
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2001-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309170605

As a result of the heightened public and political attention and the movement toward standards and accountability, performance measurement has emerged as an important concern in the early childhood care and education field. At the request of the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, the Board on Children, Youth, and Families convened two workshops to learn from existing efforts to develop performance measures for early childhood care and education, to consider what would be involved in developing and implementing an effective performance measurement system for this field, and to delineate some critical next steps for moving such an effort forward.