101 Principles for Positive Guidance with Young Children Creating Responsive Teachers

by Kersey, Katharine; Masterson, Marie

• ISBN13: 9780132658218
• ISBN10: 0132658216
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-08-29
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Kersey and Masterson's 101 Principles for Positive Guidance with Young Childrenis a reference tool, a guide, a handbook, and more for creating responsive teachers who foster respectful relationships through responsive teacher-child interactions and strength-based guidance strategies that promote emotional competence, self-regulation, and social and academic success for children. In 10 accessible chapters, educators will be forever changed by the impactful content addressing creating a caring community, guiding behavior, showing respect, giving nurturance, fostering independence, building resilience, preventing misbehavior, creating solutions to common behavior challenges, building bridges with families, and creating positive change. Multicultural and cross-cultural contexts are fully-integrated, with particular efficacy for children at-risk, English language learners, and those working in diverse and inclusive classrooms. Relational and practical solutions for working with parents in the most constructive and caring manner are also addressed and will help educators learn to build bridges between home and school. Using lively and accessible prose, the authors have written a truly user-friendly workbook with a seamless link between research and practice. The techniques presented are effective and practical, addressing every aspect of classroom guidance for young children.

Author Biography

Katharine C. Kersey, Ed.D., is a university professor of Early Childhood Education, and founder and Director Emeritus of the Child Development/Child Study Centers at Old Dominion University. She served as chairperson of the Department of Early Childhood Education, Speech Language Pathology and Special Education for twenty-two years. The recipient of many prestigious awards, including the ODU Tonelson Award for outstanding teaching, and the SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education of Virginia) award for outstanding faculty, she has recently published articles with Young Children and Childhood Education. In addition to The 101s, Dr. Kersey has authored three more books, The Art of Sensitive Parenting, Helping Your Children Handle Stress, and Don’t Take it Out on Your Kids, as well as co-authored The First-Year Teacher, published by the National Education Association. Dr. Kersey is an oft sought-after expert of local television stations, newspapers, and other popular media on family, parent, and child-related issues, and has appeared on several national talk shows, including “Oprah,” “Sonya Live,” “CNN,” and the “Les Brown Show.”

 

Marie L. Masterson, Ph.D., is assistant professor of Early Childhood Education at Dominican University. She recently served as a Fulbright Specialist, working in conjunction with Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand to establish an early childhood education training institute. She coordinates Old Dominion University Director’s Institute, which provides professional development for directors of licensed childcare centers for at-risk children. She is a national speaker, child behavior expert, researcher, and author of current articles published in Young Children and Childhood Education linking research to practice in early childhood education. Additionally, she provides educational consulting and professional development to childcare centers, schools, and organizations to build high-quality environments and establish responsive, positive instructional and relational interactions to support achievement and school adjustment for all children. Dr. Masterson is the former early childhood specialist for the Virginia Department of Education.

 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Building a Caring Community

Chapter 2: Guiding Behavior

Chapter 3: Showing Respect

Chapter 4: Giving Nurturance

Chapter 5: Fostering Independence

Chapter 6: Building Resilience

Chapter 7: Preventing Misbehavior

Chapter 8: Creating Solutions to Common Behavior Challenges

Chapter 9: Building Bridges with Families

Chapter 10: Creating Positive Change