List Books » Help! For Teachers of Young Children: 88 Tips to Develop Children's Social Skills and Create Positive Teacher-Family Relationships
Authors: Gwendolyn (Gwen) S. (Snyder) Kaltman
ISBN-13: 9781412924429, ISBN-10: 1412924421
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Gwen Snyder Kaltman has spent more than 25 years working with young children, their parents, and teachers. She is the author of Help! For Teachers of Young Children: 88 Tips to Develop Children's Social Skills and Create Positive Teacher-Family Relationships and More Help! For Teachers of Young Children: 99 Tips to Promote Intellectual Development and Creativity. She has been a preschool teacher, director, college instructor, and educational trainer in various parts of the country and has also been a validator for the National Academy of Early Childhood Programs, the accreditation division of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.
Kaltman has worked with young children in Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, and Virginia. She has trained teachers working in Head Start programs in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and rural Georgia and in child care centers and preschools in the suburbs of New York City and Washington, DC. She has observed preschool classes in such diverse places as China, Easter Island, Greenland, India, Malta, Mongolia, Tibet, Tanzania, Venezuela, and native villages above the Arctic Circle and along the Amazon and Sepik rivers.
She earned her BS and MEd in early childhood education from the University of Maryland.
This entertaining and informative resource offers tips on teaching communication and cooperation skills, instilling a positive self-concept in children, and creating effective team relationships with families.
1 | "Yada, yada, yada" : communicating effectively with the young child | 3 |
2 | "Why can't you behave?" : understanding the difference between discipline and punishment | 27 |
3 | "Will you be my friend?" : helping children develop a positive self-image and master the art of getting along with others | 59 |
4 | "Mommy, please don't leave me!" : preparing parents and children for school | 85 |
5 | The good, the bad, and the ugly : creating a team relationship with parents | 111 |
6 | "Can we talk?" : making the most of parent-teacher conferences | 135 |