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Special Education Tools, Concepts and Design for Children in Need
This book focuses on themes related to special education, inclusive practices, individualized instruction, and assistive technology. It is particularly relevant to undergraduate students in education and special education, providing them with a comprehensive understanding of the tools, concepts, and strategies needed to support children with diverse learning needs. Practitioners in special education gain practical insights into designing and implementing effective individualized education plans (IEPs) and leveraging assistive technologies to enhance learning outcomes. Policymakers can draw from this knowledge to develop inclusive education policies that prioritize the needs of children with disabilities, and the general public becomes more aware of the importance of inclusive and supportive educational practices for all children.
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Spotlight on Young Children
Preventing and Responding to Challenging Behavior
Addressing challenging behavior is a daily concern for early childhood educators. It’s estimated that roughly 10 to 14 percent of children from birth to 5 years old demonstrate serious behavioral concerns, resulting in significant impacts to their learning and social interactions.
Children engage in challenging behavior for many different reasons; preventing and responding to that behavior begins with understanding why it occurs. This book curates and organizes articles from Young Children and Teaching Young Children that
* Help teachers build trust and connections with children
* Highlight evidence-based positive behavior intervention and support strategies
* Aim to prevent suspension, expulsion, and other punitive discipline
* Support teachers and families in implementing effective teaching strategies for social and emotional skills children can use instead of challenging behavior
* Show how to adapt practices to consider the cultures and contexts of children
Each article in this collection is accompanied by questions to prompt deeper thinking on the content. With this resource, fully see and hear children as you honor and support their well-being, as well as your own.
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Digital Technologies in Early Childhood Art
Through art children make sense of their experiences and the world around them. Drawing, painting, collage and modelling are open-ended and playful processes through which children engage in physical exploration, aesthetic decision-making, identity construction and social understanding. As digital technologies become increasingly prevalent in the lives of young children, there is a pressing need to understand how digital technologies shape important experiences in early childhood, including early childhood art. Mona Sakr shows the need to consider how particular dimensions of the art-making process are changed by the use of digital technologies and what can be done by parents, practitioners and designers to enable children to adopt playful and creative practices in their interactions with digital technologies. Incorporating different theoretical perspectives, including social semiotics and posthumanism, and drawing on various research studies, this book highlights how children engage with different facets of art-making with digital technologies including: remix and mash-up; distributed ownership; imagined audiences and changed sensory and social interactions.
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Wellbeing in the primary classroom: a practical guide to teaching happiness
Evidence has shown that happy people (those who experience more positive emotions) perform better in school, enjoy healthier relationships, are generally more successful and even live longer! It is an ever-growing concern, therefore, that children's levels of happiness and wellbeing are decreasing, while their levels of stress, anxiety and depression are increasing. As a result, many schools and teachers are looking for accessible ways to address these mental health problems in young people. In this practical and thoughtful book, experienced teacher and advisor on children's wellbeing, Adrian Bethune, takes the latest evidence and research from the science of happiness and positive psychology and brings them to life.
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Creating Playful First Encounters with the Pre-Modern Past
This collection explores playful ways of fostering creative engagements with the medieval and early modern past and its own literary and artistic products, especially among those new to their study.
As scholars and teachers of early English, the contributors cover literary and cultural material from a range of genres within the Old English, Middle English, Tudor, and Stuart periods and collectively delve into a shared interest in facilitating what we might loosely define as 'newcomer' or 'non-specialist' encounters with the past: initial, exploratory contact in which prior knowledge cannot be assumed, whether involving creative professionals, experts from other disciplines, undergraduate and school students, or members of the public. Considering artworks and installation, theatre and performance and curation practices, case studies offer practice-based examples of learning and engagement which proceed primarily through creative and playful approaches. The case studies are arranged into two broad groups: those which work through performance and theatrical play of various kinds, and those which work through playful practices of production and making. All share a perspective of irreverence, of vivid immersion, and of the possibilities of conjuring with the past.
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