Teacher's Choice Award for Preschool 2018 Winner
Children must learn to pick themselves up, brush themselves off, and bounce back. How do you allow for the physicality required to build resilience why you are tasked with children's safety? This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including families in the process, and keeping safety front-of-mind.
- Examine common safety concerns and how to address and prepare for them
- Learn how to work with families and build a trusting relationship around children's physical development
- Consider legal concerns regarding licensing and liability
- Discover practical approaches to working with children to find their appropriate level of physical risk-taking and how to respond to a child's risky behavior
Jarrod Greenis an early childhood educator with over a decade of experience in early childhood education. His teaching practice centers around an emergent, project-based approach to curriculum, with an emphasis on learning through play, developing relationships with communities, and building self-regulation and resilience. Green also presents at many professional conferences, including NAEYC's Professional Development Institute.
Green's teaching is spot on. His goal of giving children the experiences of learning and joy, challenge and triumph, and the ability to enter the world, with all its challenges and obstacles and setbacks, in the most positive way possible; is holistically delivered. Here's to horsing around. —
This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including families in the process, and keeping safety in mind. —
This book is a joyful, playful exploration of the very nature of young children emphasizing their need to run and jump and play and take risks and try things out and the wal³°
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