The Kinderchat Guide to Elementary School Projects

The Kinderchat Guide to Elementary School Projects
Author: Heidi Echternacht
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000986365

The Kinderchat Guide to Elementary School Projects takes the structure, philosophy, and child-centered, playful approach to learning most commonly seen in early childhood and shares how to scale and apply for the wider elementary school community. From one of the founders of the popular online Kinderchat group, this book shows how inviting play into academic learning forms an essential "back and forth" between application and skill development. Learn how to foster discovery, playfulness, imagination, and spontaneity into the elementary school academic curriculum, while keeping skills in the foreground. Offering lesson plans, scaffolded implementation techniques and methodologies, these unique and approachable projects are ready to use by in-service elementary educators, seasoned professionals, and school leaders.

Reimagining the Role of Teachers in Nature-based Learning

Reimagining the Role of Teachers in Nature-based Learning
Author: Rachel Larimore
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2024-10-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1040124550

Learn how to integrate nature-based pedagogy in this practical and inviting book. Nature-based teaching is getting more attention in early childhood education settings and can positively impact the development of young children’s curiosity, confidence, and care. You’ll learn to not only identify but also embody the many roles teachers play when implementing nature-based strategies. Chapters lay out the research and theory behind each role, specific language or behaviors of what that role looks like in practice, and reflexive questions to help educators reflect on their practice. This is perfect for in-service early childhood educators, including infant, toddler, preschool, and elementary providers, interested in more intentional use of nature in their teaching.

The Kinderchat Guide to the Classroom

The Kinderchat Guide to the Classroom
Author: Heidi Echternacht
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 147
Release: 2021-08-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000415414

From the founders of #Kinderchat, this book provides a comprehensive, friendly guide to teaching in the early childhood classroom. Organized around the same core topics as #Kinderchat, conversational yet authoritative chapters cover everything a novice teacher needs to know, from setting up your classroom to establishing routines and engaging with parents. Learn how to effectively incorporate play, meet the needs of diverse learners, and cover curriculum like a pro. With helpful tips for working with a range of program structures, this is a must-have read for anyone new to the kindergarten or pre-K classroom.

The Kinderchat Guide to the Classroom

The Kinderchat Guide to the Classroom
Author: Heidi Echternacht
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2021-08-10
Genre: Early childhood education
ISBN: 9780367481643

From the founders of #Kinderchat, this book provides a comprehensive, friendly guide to teaching in the early childhood classroom. With helpful tips for working with a range of program structures, this is a must-have read for anyone new to the kindergarten or pre-k classroom.

Stop, Think, Act

Stop, Think, Act
Author: Megan M. McClelland
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317755391

Stop, Think, Act: Integrating Self-regulation in the Early Childhood Classroom offers early childhood teachers the latest research and a wide variety of hands-on activities to help children learn and practice self-regulation techniques. Self-regulation in early childhood leads to strong academic performance, helps students form healthy friendships, and gives them the social and emotional resources they need to face high-stress situations throughout life. The book takes you through everything you need to know about using self-regulation principles during circle time, in literacy and math instruction, and during gross motor and outdoor play. Each chapter includes a solid research base as well as practical, developmentally-appropriate games, songs, and strategies that you can easily incorporate in your own classroom. With Stop, Think, Act, you’ll be prepared to integrate self-regulation into every aspect of the school day.

Literacy Playshop

Literacy Playshop
Author: Karen E. Wohlwend
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2015-04-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807771961

Building on her award-winning research (featured in Playing Their Way into Literacies) which emphasizes that play is an early literacy, Wohlwend has developed a curricular framework for children ages 3 to 8. The Literacy Playshop curriculum engages children in creating their own multimedia productions, positioning them as media makers rather than passive recipients of media messages. The goal is to teach young children to critically interpret the daily messages they receive in popular entertainment that increasingly blur toys, stories, and advertising. The first half of this practical resource features case studies that show how six early childhood teachers working together in teacher study groups developed and implemented play-based literacy learning and media production. The second half of the book provides a Literacy Playshop framework with professional development and classroom activities, discussion questions, and technology try-it sections. This user-friendly book will inspire and support teachers in designing their own Literacy Playshops.

Matching Books to Readers

Matching Books to Readers
Author: Irene C. Fountas
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This reference provides a comprehensive, up-to-date levelled reading list. Created with the input of hundreds of early literacy teachers, it compiles more than 7000 caption books, natural language texts, series books, and children's literature for kindergarten through grade three.

StoryMaking

StoryMaking
Author: Robin Chappele Thompson
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1605546046

After studying the current research on literacy learning for young children, delving into the beliefs and schools of Reggio Emilia, and discovering the Maker Movement, the authors created StoryMaking. With great success, they implemented it in their diverse and large public school district. StoryMaking shares the processes, first steps, next steps, uses for materials, and lessons learned so teachers can implement their own versions in their classrooms. The book shares practical suggestions, student samples, photographs, anchor charts, and other forms of documentation.

Number Sense Routines

Number Sense Routines
Author: Jessica F. Shumway
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571107908

Just as athletes stretch their muscles before every game and musicians play scales to keep their technique in tune, mathematical thinkers and problem solvers can benefit from daily warm-up exercises. Jessica Shumway has developed a series of routines designed to help young students internalize and deepen their facility with numbers. The daily use of these quick five-, ten-, or fifteen-minute experiences at the beginning of math class will help build students' number sense. Students with strong number sense understand numbers, ways to represent numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems. They make reasonable estimates, compute fluently, use reasoning strategies (e.g., relate operations, such as addition and subtraction, to each other), and use visual models based on their number sense to solve problems. Students who never develop strong number sense will struggle with nearly all mathematical strands, from measurement and geometry to data and equations. In Number Sense Routines, Jessica shows that number sense can be taught to all students. Dozens of classroom examples -- including conversations among students engaging in number sense routines -- illustrate how the routines work, how children's number sense develops, and how to implement responsive routines. Additionally, teachers will gain a deeper understanding of the underlying math -- the big ideas, skills, and strategies children learn as they develop numerical literacy.

Catching Readers Before They Fall

Catching Readers Before They Fall
Author: Pat Johnson
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1571107819

Using examples from both adults and children, the authors explain and describe the complex integrated network of strategies that takes place in the minds of proficient readers, strategies that struggling readers have to learn in order to construct their own reading processes. The examples and scenarios of teacher/ student interactions in this book provide a sense of how it looks and what is sounds like to teach strategic actions to struggling readers.--[book cover].