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March 12, 2012
Never underestimate young children, for, if you do, you are bound to be surprised"
-Selma Wasserman, Serious Players in the Primary Classroom
"The most important thing about being a teacher of young children is a willingness to learn about a child by being with a child and responding to a child," writes Carol Hillman in her Exchange book, Teaching Four-Year-Olds. Hillman poses these questions for a teacher to ask:
- How do you show children that you value listening to them?
- As you listen to children's conversations, are you discovering ideas that can be incorporated into the curriculum?
- Can you engage in the repetitive activities that young children love without becoming bored?
- Can you still get excited with the children about the first snowfall, the magic of a single flake on a child's nose?
- Is it beneath your dignity to wear a flowered hat if a child places it on your head?
- Do you do what has to be done knowing full well that there are times you may make a child angry?
- How will you make your classroom a stimulating learning environment?
Exchange's six top selling books are on sale this week at a 20% discount, choose from:
- Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations
- Caring Spaces, Learning Places: Children's Environments That Work
- Natural Playscapes
- Not Just Small Change: Fund Development for Early Childhood Programs
- Staying on Course: The Early Childhood Board's Guide to Success
- Teaching Four-Year-Olds: A Personal Journey Updated and Revised Edition
(Sale ends 07/13/2012)
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