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by Maria C. Sargent (Author)
How do young children learn, and what do educators need to know and do to teach them? Covering the full birth-8 early childhood age range, this introductory text delivers up-to-date answers through a unique lens: a deep focus on the neurological foundations of developmentally appropriate practices.
Preservice and inservice educators will explore the basic neurological concepts that affect learning and development--and discover specific ways to apply this knowledge to their classroom teaching practices to help young children thrive. Practical enough to use in the field, this unique foundational text is filled with strategies, figures, illustrations, and examples that are easy for all early childhood educators to understand and apply.
Learn effective techniques for:
- Structuring a classroom and choosing instructional materials
- Planning and organizing the curriculum
- Creating an engaging classroom that responds to all students' needs
- Helping children develop strong social-emotional skills
- Supporting play and active learning
- Providing both general behavior supports and advanced behavior interventions
- Teaching students with processing disorders and disabilities
- Using assessments to make data-based decisions
FACULTY MATERIALS: Includes Teacher Guides for every chapter with summaries, key terms, and sample questions to support use in courses!
Author Biography
Maria Sargent has been active for 30+ years in general education, special education, behavior intervention, and arts intervention. She is a full professor at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. She is known for cross-disciplinary work training professionals in medicine, psychology, the arts, and the legal sector, in addition to educators. Her work history has also spanned a wide variety of ages and populations (e.g., Behavioral Intervention Coordinator/Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Health; Research Coordinator/Akron Children's Hospital's Family Child Learning Center; Infant-Toddler Program Coordinator/Kent State University and Child Development Center; Director of the Behavior and Parenting Resource Center/multiple state, national, and international locations; Behavior Intervention and Curriculum Design Consultant /birth through grade 12) and has just finished a 12-year tenure as a Board Member or Board President of ArtSparks (www.artsparksdance.org/), an arts intervention program operating across Northeast Ohio. She archives her work through the website www.neuro-teach.com. The documents and videos available on this website are totally free to professionals and families.
