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What troubles teachers most?
Challenging behavior, according to Child Care Exchange. Now help is here: the fourth edition of Challenging Behavior in Young Children, winner of the Texty Award for textbook excellence.
The experts rave
Kaiser and Rasminskys many notable
changes and additions make an already great book even better. This
fourth edition will be a useful tool for higher education faculty,
administrators, and teachers. The authors have clearly articulated
a framework that is designed to prevent challenging behavior by
promoting social emotional competence. I believe that type of framework
is necessary for meeting the needs of all children in early childhood
settings.
Mary Louise Hemmeter,
Vanderbilt University, Director, Center on the Social and Emotional
Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL)
An invaluable guidebook ... Kaiser and Rasminsky
provide an eminently readable foundation for teachers to understand,
prevent, and respond effectively to challenging behavior in young
children ... This book could not be more timely or more needed.
Sue Bredekamp, author
of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood
Programs and Effective Practices in Early Childhood Education
Im very enthusiastic about this book.
Its interesting, reader-friendly, and has a solid research
foundation. Best of all, the information is extremely useful.
Janet Gonzalez-Mena, author
of Diversity in Early Care and Education and The
Child in the Family and the Community
A powerful resource for understanding and
working in a caring and respectful way with the neediest children.
Diane Levin, Wheelock
College, author of Beyond Remote-Controlled Childhood
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Challenging behavior can turn a classroom upside down
When a child with challenging behavior comes into their lives, teachers and families find themselves at a loss, unable to turn things around or help the child behave appropriately. Often they feel overwhelmed, frustrated, defeated.
Challenging Behavior in Young Children (fourth
edition) can save the day! Author Barbara Kaiser has walked in your shoes
and knows what works and what doesnt. Making use of her 30 years
of experience as a child care director and teacher, Barbara and writer
Judy Sklar Rasminsky have gathered a variety of research-based strategies
into one comprehensive, practical, user-friendly survival guide.
Used in combination or alone, these techniques can help you to succeed with almost any child or situation you encounter and will benefit every child in the classroom. The fourth edition maintains the personal touch and real-life examples teachers have come to rely on.
An invaluable resource
Challenging Behavior in Young Children can help you if:
- You are teaching education at a university or community college.
- You are studying to become a teacher.
- You are teaching in a preschool, a child care center, or an elementary school.
- You are working with young children in another context, such as a recreation program, an after-school program, or a social services or nonprofit agency.
Why a fourth edition?
Because we know that teachers, children, and families continue
to struggle with childrens challenging behavior, and like you, we
continue to search for ways to understand and address it.
We can offer no magic fairy dust, no single theory or practice
that will work for all teachers or all children. But we do offer you the
latest research on resilience, dual-language learning, and guidance, along
with several effective evidence-based strategies so that you can select
those that suit who you are and what you believe inas well as the
child with challenging behavior in your own classroom. Every child has
some kind of special need, especially children with challenging behavior.
This book will help you to build a meaningful relationship with each child,
figure out where hes coming from, and help him to meet his needs
more appropriately.
Whats new in this edition?
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In the last few years weve learned much more about
what toxic stress can do to childrens brains, executive function,
and behavior, and that research has become our focus in this edition,
along with the two strongest antidotes to stress: caring, responsive
relationships and an inclusive social climate.
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This text is available as an e-book which allows us
to share videos that illuminate the facts, strategies, and research
in each chapter and encourage you to think about the material in a
more personal way.
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Weve written a completely new brain chapter that
underlines the influence of toxic stress and includes new sections
on executive function and genes.
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Weve updated the bullying chapter to highlight
new research into the importance of the group, social climate, social
norms, and bystanders. The chapter now also provides specific details
about how to recognize and handle bullying incidents.
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The chapter on resilience, which is also totally new,
explains the latest theories and research, including grit and mindset
(growing the brain).
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The culture chapter includes the newest research on
dual-language learning and culturally responsive teaching.
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There are more strategies for connecting with children
and families.
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Weve incorporated new information from the DSM-5
on autism, learning disabilities, and emotional and behavioral disorders
and enlarged the sections on curriculum, the Common Core State Standards,
and teaching strategies.
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Weve provided more strategies for self-reflection,
including understanding the amygdala hijack; and weve substantially
revised the reflective checklists on social climate, physical environment,
routines and transitions, curriculum, and teaching strategies.
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In addition, weve included several new figures
and added learning goals for each chapter as well as What do
you know? questions that align with these goals.
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An updated Instructors Manual is available for
download to college instructors who register online at www.pearsonhighered.com,
Educators. This manual includes interactive activities, discussion
questions, learning outcomes, chapter summaries, and more to enrich
a variety of college course formatsonline, hybrid, and face-to-face.
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