Classroom Management 73 results
When should a child’s challenging behavior be addressed and what are the consequences of not handling the challenging behavior appropriately? You don’t want to punish children for behaving in a way that is normal for a child in their age group, but you don’t want the challenging behavior to become a future or lifelong issue.
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Related Book: When Nothing Else Works
We all remember playing dress up. While children can turn almost any article of clothing into a grand costume, dress up kits like Gryphon House’s Community Dress-Up Toddler Set make play even easier and help build important academic skills, from cognitive thinking to physical coordination.
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Related Book: Planning for Play
It’s a familiar scene: a preschool child is coloring during playtime when the teacher asks the class to sit on the floor for circle time. At the teacher’s sudden insistence the child abandons his drawing, whines, and lashes out, throwing the crayons across the room. Outbursts like this one are incredibly common in early childhood classrooms, and many teachers may find themselves floundering as they attempt to remedy these situations.
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Related Book: Effective Discipline Policies
We’ve all heard the praises of teaching science, technology, engineering, and math—STEM—but we often let the arts fall by the wayside. The current push from STEM to STEAM education urges teachers to bring art-based learning back into the curriculum, but the question is: Why? What does art have to offer young learners?
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Related Book: Simple STEAM
Children play all the time, and their creativity is often what directs them. A child can turn an empty box into a race car with just a bit of imagination. These kinds of imaginative games are called “symbolic play.”
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Related Book: Prop Box Play
What do toddlers want? Everything! When do they want it? Now! Patience is one of the most difficult things for young children to learn. So how can you teach your little learner to wait?
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Related Book: Enjoying the Parenting Roller Coaster
Classroom management resources for preschool classrooms and infant/toddler classrooms offers teachers proven best practices for improving the quality of classroom time. Teachers will learn how to design classrooms appropriate for children with special needs and understand the most effective ways to handle behavioral problems, among many other easy and inspiring resources.