What can you add to your early childhood classroom that will immerse children in rich learning, reduce challenging behaviors, and develop confidence as well as critical thinkingand problem-solving skills? A makerspace!Filled with colorful photographs taken in real early childhood settings, this book will guide you step-by-step in making a makerspace that invites young children to boldly explore materials and create something only they can imagine. Discover how to:• D...

You'd like to get organized. You need to get organized. But every time you try, you feel like a square peg in a round hole. Nothing ever seems to work.The secret -- as revealed in this clear, concise, and compelling book -- is to organize according to your natural, preferred learning style. Organizing Outside the Box will help you to:Determine whether you are a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learnerPick the filing, storage, and o...

Clutter Happens...It starts when we're first born -- and we're not even aware of it. I'm talking about the accumulation of material items in our life. Think about the concept of a baby shower. Even before we're born we begin accumulating things through this ritual. Then our family discovers any number of reasons to "shower" us with even more material gifts as we grow up.Maybe you have tried for years but you are just not an organized person and you don't think that you can be the t...

While most of us aren't hoarders we can all benefit from assessing and reducing the clutter in our homes--and then organizing what's left. Many things stop us from succeeding: the sheer scope of the project, the tendency to lose momentum if the job takes too long, and the fact that we're always acquiring new clutter. But what if it really took only a week to de-clutter the whole house, and then you even had the weekend to relax and enjoy your new clutter-free space? Could it really be that...

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Transform your home and your schedule so they perfectly meet your current needs and reflect who you are and what you value now. Changes and life transitions often leave people with unbalanced schedules and homes full of obsolete items. Certified Professional Organizer® Susan Fay West shows you how to make room for your new interests and responsibilities while honoring your past.Inside you'll find:• Step-by-step advice for decluttering and reorganizing every...

STEM Made Simple introduces early childhood educators to the exciting world of STEM. It includes 25 small-group activities developed by preschool teachers from diverse settings, ensuring that you too can learn how to build STEM topics – science, technology, engineering, and mathematics – into your curriculum.Each activity in this resource provides a scaffolding chart that supports children's learning at beginning, middle, and later stages of development as well as intentional vocab...

Make the complex task of creating a child-centered curriculum easier with the practical guidelines and ideas in this updated and expanded handbook. Learn how to sharpen your observation and documentation skills, set up your space, and transform your teaching to reflect children’s interests and needs. Insightful classroom stories, assessment tools, checklists, comparative charts, and activities encourage new approaches and self-reflection as you plan your curriculum and put it into practice...

Inspires early childhood educators to use innovative practices through stories from real teachers who use emergent curriculum in their classrooms.

Living with ADD/ADHD can be hectic, and parenting a child with this disorder can feel like an uphill struggle when even the simplest of tasks causes havoc. This book addresses the issues of organization and time management in relation to ADD/ADHD, suggesting practical ways of organizing your child's day and turning chaos into calm.Accommodating short attention spans and short fuses, Cheryl Carter shows how, by using the F.I.R.S.T method (Fun, Individualism, Rules, Simplicity and Ti...

In this one-of-a-kind book, artist and teacher Liz Byron demonstrates how to design lessons and instruction in the visual arts using the inclusive principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).Art for All: Planning for Variability in the Visual Arts Classroom offers teachers classroom-ready advice on how to transform their practice in sustainable ways with UDL. Readers learn to set meaningful goals, measure progress, customize instruction, and engage all learners acros...

Discover why playing is school readiness with this updated guide. Timely research and new stories highlight how play is vital to the social, physical, cognitive, and spiritual development of children. Learn the seven meaningful experiences we should provide children with every day and why they are so important.