Developing School Readiness

Developing School Readiness
Author: Kathryn Peckham
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1473994470

Shortlisted for Best Professional Book by Nursery World Awards 2017! We′ve all heard of the term school readiness but how many of us understand what is meant by it? What does it mean in the context of child development and wellbeing and what implications does it have for creating enthusiastic lifelong learners? How can we really give our children the best start in their most formative years? This book will ensure you understand school readiness but also understand: the experiential nature of children′s learning how future success is affected by the experiences that have gone before the importance of your role in the child’s journey This book will give you the confidence to deliver practice that exceeds expectations and the knowledge to stand by your approach to teaching and caring for the children you work with. Kathryn Peckham will be discussing key ideas from Developing School Readiness: Creating Lifelong Learners in the SAGE Early Years Masterclass, a free professional development experience hosted by Kathy Brodie.

School Readiness and the Characteristics of Effective Learning

School Readiness and the Characteristics of Effective Learning
Author: Tamsin Grimmer
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2018-02-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1784504467

This guide to understanding school readiness in young children is essential reading for early years practitioners. It explores the concept of school readiness by unpicking what the term means for children and how we can define it in the context of the characteristics of effective learning. This includes ideas for promoting playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically. The book also considers how we can ensure schools are ready to receive children and suggests ways in which preschools and nurseries can work collaboratively with schools and engage parents and carers to ensure a smooth transition.

Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education

Challenging the School Readiness Agenda in Early Childhood Education
Author: Miriam B. Tager
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317204670

Challenging the normative paradigm that school readiness is a positive and necessary objective for all young children, this book asserts that the concept is a deficit-based practice that fosters the continuation of discriminatory classifications. Tager draws on findings of a qualitative study to reveal how the neoliberal agenda of school reform based on high-stakes testing sorts and labels children as non-ready, affecting their overall schooling careers. Tager reflects critically on the relationship between race and school readiness, showing how the resulting exclusionary measures perpetuate the marginalization of low-income Black children from an early age. Disrupting expected notions of readiness is imperative to ending practices of structural classism and racism in early childhood education.

Promoting School Readiness and Early Learning

Promoting School Readiness and Early Learning
Author: Michel Boivin
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2013-09-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1462511570

Grounded in cutting-edge developmental research, this book examines what school readiness entails and how it can be improved. Compelling longitudinal findings are presented on the benefits of early intervention for preschoolers at risk due to poverty and other factors. The volume identifies the cognitive, language, behavioral, motor, and socioemotional skills that enable young children to function successfully in school contexts. It explores specific ways in which school- and family-based interventions--including programs that target reading and language, math, self-regulation, and social-emotional development--can contribute to school readiness. The book also addresses challenges in the large-scale dissemination of evidence-based practices.

Learning from Head Start

Learning from Head Start
Author: Sidney W. Gilford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781475800562

This book is designed to be a teaching tool for workshops and courses as well as an on-site resource for current and future Head Start teaching staff and others in early childhood education. By presenting background information, vignettes, research, and classroom activities, this book on school readiness combines best practices in early childhood education with relevant applications.

Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education

Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education
Author: Jeanne Marie Iorio
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 365
Release: 2015-02-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137485124

This book challenges traditional conceptions of readiness in early childhood education by sharing concrete examples of practice, policy and histories that rethink readiness. This book seeks to reimagine possible new educational worlds for young children.

Disparities in School Readiness

Disparities in School Readiness
Author: Alan Booth
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2008
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0805864350

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Beginnings of School Readiness

The Beginnings of School Readiness
Author: Sarah Vanover
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475835892

Many families and educators are concerned with the school readiness skills that children acquire in preschool; however, they do not realize that these skills begin to develop during the infant and toddler years. Infant and toddler caregivers need to recognize the importance of a high-quality infant and toddler learning environment and learn how they can support children while they acquire essential skills for future success.

Ready to Learn

Ready to Learn
Author: Martyn Rawson
Publisher: Hawthorne Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN:

Martyn Rawson, author of Waldorf Education and Find Your Child's True Potential, here considers how pre-school children can be prepared for starting school.