Focuses on a day in the life of three children age 2 and under, and the negotiation of developmental stages.
Subjects: Teacher Resources
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Fatherhood
Illustrates the evolving role of the father and how fathers can affect their children’s development through play, reading, and games.
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Playing and Growing
Focuses on the development of children ages two to five. Newly refined motor skills and child endangerment and neglect are discussed.
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Playing and Learning
Illustrates how children’s experiences with puzzles, building blocks, and other toys help facilitate their cognitive development.
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Child Development: Stepping Stones – 2-DVD Set
Child Development: Stepping Stones has been designed to appeal to a wide variety of students, and in particular, to provide students preparing for careers in child development, early childhood education, social work, and related fields with a comprehensive understanding of development. The twenty-six 30-minute DVD lessons cover a wide variety of topics affecting the developing child, give students the opportunity to observe children, and feature interviews with leading child development experts and medical professionals.
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The Developing Person
Explores major theories such as psychoanalytic theory, learning theory, behaviorism, and cognitive theory. It also explores the life-span perspective, which considers that development is a lifelong process.
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The Thinking Curriculum
Knowledge is a tradeable commodity and a driving force in global life. Modern learning is about using information to construct new understandings. Students need the ability to control knowledge – to access, organize, analyze, evaluate and use information effectively. This program looks at specific higher order thinking skills – those that can be applied both in the classroom, and life beyond it. Content must be rich and contribute to the use of thinking skills and strategies. We show how a thinking curriculum can be introduced to and applied in the classroom.
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Student-Centered Learning
Responsibility for learning now lies with students – who are central to their own learning process, not teachers as in the past. Student-centered learning focuses on how students learn, what they experience, what they bring to the classroom and how they engage. This program addresses what Student-Centered Learning is, how it works and why schools are incorporating it. With comments from educational experts, teachers and students, we also explore the whole school approach to student-centered learning, various strategies to facilitate it and typical scenarios in a student-centered learning classroom.
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Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse
This program aims to support teachers’ current understanding of mandatory reporting of child abuse in schools across Australia. It focuses on the legal aspects of mandatory reporting, including variations from state to state, and describes the process by which a teacher can form a belief that a student is being abused. Additionally it provides clear definitions of what constitutes child abuse and explores the different possible physical and/or behavioral manifestations of the impact of child abuse on children. This program provides information to teachers about the process of making a notification to a relevant child protection authority and discusses how the notification might be handled from that point.
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Hot Tips For Classroom Management
One of the biggest challenges facing teachers today is classroom management and dealing with difficult students. This program provides practical help, offering some effective, preventative strategies, as well as ways to deal with difficult behavior when it occurs. Covering pre-planning ? establishing the rules, pre-planning ? other strategies, routine, seven steps of behavior management, the behavior interventions pyramid, depersonalizing behavior sanctions and reflection, and written by teachers in the know, this is a great professional development tool for any new teacher, or any teacher wanting to brush up on essential classroom skills.