Quick Reference Guides for Early Childhood Best Practices
Essential guidance on developmentally appropriate practice for all early childhood educators
Perfect for professional learning, these 16 Quick Reference Guides by Kathy L. Reschke, Ph.D., will put practical knowledge and ready-to-use strategies in the hands of every educator in your early childhood program. Developed by an early childhood expert with more than 40 years of experience in the field, these laminated, six-page primers cover specific topics with explicit links to core developmental domains: cognitive, physical, socio-emotional, communication, and adaptive. Teachers of children from birth to five will get tips they can trust on developmentally appropriate practices—not only within developmental domains, but in other key areas with a broad effect on a child’s life (such as mealtime, friendships, and creativity).
Why These Guides?
- Colorful illustrations, lists, and infographics instantly engage early childhood educators and give them an at-a-glance understanding of developmentally appropriate practices
- Ready to use across settings: in homes, classrooms, or professional learning communities
- Laminated, 3-hole-punch guides are durable and easy to slip into a binder for ready access to key information
What to Order
Ideal for staff professional learning in preschools and across districts, these guides are available in convenient packs of 5 for bulk purchases. (Each pack contains 5 of the same guide.) Individual guides are also available.
♦ School Readiness
Exploring the Cognitive and Socio-emotional Domains
♦ Early Language: First Sounds and Words
Exploring the Communication Domain
♦ Becoming a Writer
Exploring the Communication Domain
♦ Understanding Numbers
Exploring the Cognitive Domain
♦ Curiosity and Scientific Thinking
Exploring the Cognitive Domain
♦ Growing As Thinkers
Exploring the Cognitive Domain
♦ Memory
Exploring the Cognitive Domain
♦ Pretend Play
Exploring the Socio-emotional and Cognitive Domains
♦ Temperament and Behavior
Exploring the Socio-emotional Domain
♦ Early Friendships
Exploring the Socio-emotional Domain
♦ Belonging
Exploring the Socio-emotional Domain
♦ Doing the Right Thing
Exploring the Socio-emotional and Cognitive Domains
♦ Creativity
Exploring the Socio-emotional and Cognitive Domains
♦ Humor
Exploring the Cognitive and Socio-emotional Domains
♦ Mealtime and Eating
Exploring the Physical Domain
♦ Made to Move
Exploring the Physical Domain
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