Child Development and Diversity: Classroom Prep Materials

Cultural Diversity and Inclusion in Early Years Education reveals how cultural diversity can be celebrated in every early years setting. Acknowledging the impact of culture on a child's development and identity, the book demonstrates the need for practitioners to appreciate cultural difference, value diversity, and ensure inclusive practices. Alongside comprehensive discussion of current and historical policy relating to multiculturalism, and relevant socio-cultural theory, the book provides practical guidance and resources to support practitioners in responding to the challenges of working with families and children from diverse cultural backgrounds.

This book examines race and education sixty years after the historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision. Chapters on charter schools, curriculum content, performance measurement, and disproportionalities in special education referrals look at entrenched inequities that must be confronted. The book also makes it clear that leveling the playing field calls for not only better schools, but also addressing pervasive social problems such as poverty and housing segregation.

Create a positive environment for working with diverse groups of children and families. Use the updated activities, examples, and research to improve your anti-bias and multicultural education programs. This clear and practical guide includes expanded information on English Language Learners, family engagement, culturally responsive teaching, and staff training.

Explores how teachers perceive students from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds and the unintended consequences of a kind of 'colorblind multiculturalism.' She unearths a hierarchy of acceptance and legitimacy that excludes most poor Black students and favors certain immigrant minorities. In addition, Randolph discovers how some teachers distinguish their support for certain forms of student diversity from curriculum diversity, such as accommodating bilingual education.

Updated information and unbiased, developmentally appropriate strategies and activities to celebrate, rather than exclude, diversity, traditions, and holidays. Many programs are establishing a "no holiday" policy, but this book shows you how to celebrate and adhere to school policy. Among other topics, it includes evaluating holiday activities for appropriateness, addressing commercialism and stereotypes, involving families, and developing inclusive policies.

The purpose of this book is to help teachers and child care personnel to recognize children whose physical, social, emotional, speech and language, overall communication skills, and/or cognitive development is different from that of other children of their age; to support those working with young children in knowing what questions to ask and what symptons to look for, if they suspect there are previously unidentified concerns with regard to a child's developmental patterns; to know what steps to take if they have concerns about the development of a child whose condition has not been previously observed; and to provide teachers of young children with interim interaction and program suggestions on how to work most effectively with a child presenting with a possible physical, social, emotional, behavioral, speech and language, and/or intellectual problem until specialists are available to offer support in programming for the specific needs of an individual child.

Each chapter introduces you to a child (ages birth to 8 years) with one or more special needs, including autism, cerebral palsy, Turner syndrome, ADHD, emotional/behavioral disorders, apraxia, Down syndrome, giftedness, juvenile diabetes, and epilepsy.

This book introduces readers to key concepts and issues in the evolving field of special education. Despite its promise of equal access, special education has become a controversial field in many respects. Critics point to its high cost, questionable pedagogical effectiveness, and differential outcomes across localities, family income levels, and ethnicities. This handbook departs from the traditional books in the field by focusing on the ways that special education policies and practices are enacted, rather than highlighting only their intended outcomes. Contributors to this text focus on defining commonly used terms and professional jargon in order to give interested readers access and insight into the field of special education and its associated practices.

This book presents 12 "best practices" inspired not only by Reggio, but also by play-based and Montessori approaches to early childhood education. These practices are demonstrated, one per chapter, with scenarios from classrooms, dialogues of children and teachers, and work samples showing the outcome of using each practice. Shows the foundations for teachers to practice the Reggio Approach in their own settings.

By outlining the best practices found in today's classrooms, this book describes how parents and teachers can work together to create nurturing, supportive, and effective classroom environments from preschool to high school.

This book provides a detailed examination of the complex issues surrounding the integration of deaf students into the general classroom. Author Janet Cerney begins her comprehensive work by stressing to parents, educators, and policymakers the importance of learning the circumstances in which mainstreaming and inclusion can be successful for deaf students. This process requires stakeholders to identify and evaluate the perceived benefits and risks before making placement and implementation decisions. The influences of the quality of communication and the relationships built by and with the students are of paramount importance in leading to success.

This book covers a variety of approaches to teaching young children, the historical foundations, as well as the philosophy and theory behind the applications described. Includes new developments in curricula, methods, and assessment strategies.

Ever wonder what is going on in a baby's brain? Or how you can best nurture a child's natural development? Or why exactly Bach is better than Mozart for babies? Shore makes recent neurological findings accessible to all those who come into contact with young children. Everything a baby experiences in his or her first five years is building the foundation of life's learning potential. Through increasing the complexity of the early childhood environment in developmentally appropriate ways, we can nurture young children's brains.