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For courses in Parents/Home-School Relations and Multicultural and Multiethnic Early Childhood Education.

50 Early Childhood Strategies for Working and Communicating with Diverse Families is a practical and easy to use text.  The book presents key concepts, discusses them in research-based, accessible prose, and provides useful strategies to facilitate communication and collaboration.  The book focuses on family-centered care and education for young children and emphasizes partnering with families.  Many of the strategies in this text address ideas about how to create a climate of trust by communicating in a collaborative way.  The goal is to create inclusive programs that respect and honor differences in families and individuals.  Students will love the fifty short chapters with information they can apply immediately.  At the heart of all these strategies lies the welfare of the child.

• Emphasizes the importance of partnerships between teachers and family members.Stresses the integral components of communication between diverse families and teachers or administrators.
• Raises the important issue of respecting the various diversities and cultures that exist in today's classrooms.
• Reader-friendly writing style and the alphabetic arrangement of the strategies-interesting, understandable, and easy to find what the student or teacher is looking for.
• Interwoven, cross-referenced strategies-integrity throughout the book as the relationships between the strategies are highlighted; one strategy often mentions several other strategies that pertain to the same subject.
• Broad coverage: spans ages 0-8 in a variety of different care and education settings-applies to early childhood educators at all levels-not exclusive to Pre-K; also includes child care, but not exclusively.
• Goes beyond mere parent involvement and education-closely examines how a partnership may include both, but is different from the more common approaches early childhood educators often take to working with parents; promotes a family-centered approach instead of a child-centered one that is common practice.
• Photos and artifacts illustrate the messages-these visual images are designed to help readers grasp information and enliven the book.

1.        Advocacy: Parents as Advocates for Their Own Children

2.        Advocacy: Parents Becoming Advocates for All Children

3.        Advocacy: Parents Concerned about School Readiness

4.        Antibias Environment

5.        Assessment

6.        Attachment

7.        Attitudes of Professionals: Examining and Adjusting One's Own

8.        Authority: Adult Behaviors Related To

9.        Authority: Teacher or Parent-Who Has It When?

10.      Behavior Changes: Talking with Parents About

11.      Care and Education: The Link

12.      Care and Education Practices: When Conflicts Arise

13.      Communication: Nonverbal Across Cultures

14.      Communication: Through Writing

15.      Community: Creating a Sense of

16.      Community Resources: Referrals

17.      Competition: Parents and Professionals

18.      Conferences

19.      Conferences: Cross-Cultural

20.      Conflict Management

21.      Conversations: Ongoing--With Families

22.      Culturally Responsive Care and Education

23.      Decision-Making Boards and Councils: Parents' Roles In

24.      Empowerment

25.      Environments for Communication

26.      Family Participation

27.      Family Support Services

28.      Fathers: Focusing On

29.      First Meeting with Families

30.      Home Visits

31.      Immigrant Families

32.      Inclusion of Families of Children with Special Needs

33.      Meetings

34.      Parent Complaints: Working With

35.      Parent Education: A Transformative Approach

36.      Parents in the Center or Classroom

37.      Partnerships: Building Them With Families

38.      Separation: Helping Children and Families

39.      Special Situations: Divorce in the Family

40.      Special Situations: Families Referred for Abusing or Neglecting Their Children

41.      Special Situations: Grandparents as Parents

42.      Special Situations: Parents Who Appear Hostile

43.      Strengths: Focus On

44.      Talking with Families When Concerns Arise

45.      Transitions: Helping Parents Help Their Child Enter the Program

46.      Transitions: Managing the End of the Day

47.      Transitions: Moving On

48.      Treating All Families WithRespect: Including Same-Sex Parents

49.      Understanding and Appreciating Differences

50.      Working With Families Around What You Believe are Harmful Practices

References

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Parents/Home-School Relations in Early Childhood Education  (Early Childhood Education)

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  50 Strategies for Communicating and Working with Diverse Families, 2/E
  Gonzalez-Mena
  ©2010 | Merrill | Paper; 144 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0137002319 | ISBN-13: 9780137002313
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  This is a targeted text that offers practical strategies for partnering with families to support, enhance, and maximize the quality of care and education of young children.  The text offers ideas for creating the trust necessary for true collaboration between families and the early childhood professional, as well as developing  useful programs that include all families and individuals. 

Janet Gonzalez-Mena taught in the California university and community college systems for 35 years.  She was on the full-time faculty at Napa Valley College in the Child and Family Studies Department for 15 years until her retirement. Janet started her early childhood career in a cooperative preschool as a parent volunteer back in 1966.  She became a preschool teacher and taught in three types of programs including Head Start, a program for Spanish-speaking children and their families and a home-based preschool program.  Later she became a director of child care programs and helped open several pilot projects including a therapeutic child care program and an infant-center.

Besides preschool, Janet’s special interests include working with parents, diversity, family child care, and infants.  In the 1970’s she studied with Magda Gerber, an infant expert from Hungary.  Recently she has studied at the Pikler Institute in Budapest where Magda came from.  Janet has written 4 ECE textbooks, plus a book on diversity and 2 parenting books, including a humorous one that is called Dragon Mom.  Presently Janet is involved in helping create a training project called “Strengthening Family and Professional Partnerships” with the National Association for the Education of Young Children.  In 2002 she co-authored Bridging Cultures in ECE, a training manual, also for WestEd.  She has been on the faculty of WestEd’s Program for Infant-Toddler Care training of trainer institutes since 1991.  Since 1998 she has been on the faculty of Beginning Together, another training of trainer institute for helping professionals learn to include children with special needs in early care and education programs.   

Janet lives in a multicultural family in a state where there is no longer a majority culture.  In California, everyone now is a minority.  Janet earned a B.A. in English from University of California, Davis (1959) and a M.A. in Human Development from Pacific Oaks College (1976).

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Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education, Second Edition

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Foundations and Best Practices in Early Childhood Education: History, Theories, and Approaches to Learning

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Management of Child Development Centers, Sixth Edition

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Total Learning: Developmental Curriculum for the Young Child, Seventh Edition

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Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum: Best Practices in Early Childhood Education, Fourth Edition

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Guidance of Young Children, Seventh Edition

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Gayle Mindes

Assessing Young Children, Third Edition

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George S. Morrison

Early Childhood Education Today, Tenth Edition

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Carol Seefeldt and Alice Galper

Active Experiences for Active Children: Science, Second Edition

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Fostering Resilience in Young Children At Risk for Failure: Strategies for Grades K—3

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Judith Van Hoorn, Patricia Monighan Nourot, Barbara Scales, and Keith Rodriguez Alward

Play at the Center of the Curriculum, Fourth Edition

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Responding to Hate at School: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Southern Poverty Law Center
©2001 | Merrill | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130284580 | ISBN-13: 9780130284587

This title is a member of the The Teaching Strategies Series Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the Teaching Strategies Series Series page.

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  102 Content Strategies for English Language Learners: Teaching for Academic Success in Grades 3-12
  Reiss
  ©2008 | Merrill | Paper; 256 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132218194 | ISBN-13: 9780132218191
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  Are you looking for classroom-tested content strategies to help your English Language Learners achieve academic success in your classroom? This easy-to-use resource offers 102 practical instructional and assessment strategies built on a strong foundation of second language acquisition theories and principles that you can easily incorporate into your daily classroom instruction.

   

  All 102 strategies are concise and easy to follow with helpful guides to help you maximize your students’ performance potential in the content areas at every level of English language development. These strategies address cultural considerations, instructional processes, the difficulties of traditional testing, creation of alternative testing formats, grading, and accountability in high stakes tests.

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  35 Classroom Management Strategies: Promoting Learning and Building Community
  Herrell & Jordan
  ©2007 | Merrill | Spiral Bound; 256 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130990760 | ISBN-13: 9780130990761
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  This text is designed to challenge student and experienced teachers alike to weave techniques for developing good decision-making skills throughout the curriculum.  By being given challenging daily curriculum, students will become engaged in their own learning and accomplishments.  When students begin to experience the excitement of personal accomplishment, they will be more focused on active participation in their classroom community.

   

  35 Classroom Strategies: Promoting Learning and Building Community is organized into sections related to the important themes in creating a community of learners.  Within each section, strategies are explained and steps in implementing the strategies are given.  Two classroom examples are provided for each strategy in order to show how use of the strategies will differ according to the ages of the learners and the content of the curriculum.

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  35 Strategies for Developing Content Area Vocabulary
  Spencer & Guillaume
  ©2009 | Merrill | Paper; 160 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131750151 | ISBN-13: 9780131750159
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  Whether working with students in an upper elementary, middle school or high school classroom, teachers are responsible for helping students explore the complexities of vocabulary instruction. 35 Strategies for Developing Content Area Vocabulary offers teachers in grades 4-12 concrete directives for addressing vocabulary instruction in content area lessons. The authors categorize their strategy presentation in four explicit ways: preparing to learn words, building word knowledge, applying word knowledge, and encouraging word learning.  Teachers utilizing these strategies will become more precise in their instruction and better meet the needs of ALL their students (including English learners) because student achievement is dependent on their mastery of the specialized vocabulary related to various content area disciplines and are highly correlated to their reading comprehension.

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  50 Content Area Strategies for Adolescent Literacy
  Fisher, Brozo, Frey & Ivey
  ©2007 | Merrill | Paper; 156 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131745441 | ISBN-13: 9780131745445
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  From some of the best-known authors in the field comes a book that provides inservice and preservice teachers with practical information about improving students reading, writing, and oral language development.  Examples from science, social studies, English, math, visual and performing arts, and core electives ensure that all middle and high school teachers will find useful ideas that they can implement immediately.  This book provides readers with examples of fifty evidence-based instructional strategies that can be used across content areas to ensure that reading and writing occur in all classes.

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  50 Early Childhood Guidance Strategies
  Beaty
  ©2006 | Merrill | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131700146 | ISBN-13: 9780131700147
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  For courses in Classroom Management for Young Children, Guiding Young Children, and Managing Behaviors of Young Children.

  Fifty Early Childhood Guidance Strategies presents an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand positive approach involving the young children themselves in eliminating their inappropriate behavior.  Teachers and student teachers alike will quickly learn what to expect when children first enter the early childhood classroom, how to assess children's behavior, how to redirect it, and how to get children involved in controlling their own actions.  The 50 strategies include appropriate child behavior categories such as communicating feelings and conflict conversion, inappropriate behavior categories such as possession conflicts and power struggles, and teacher concerns such as intervention (how and when) and time-out (using or not using).  Each of the strategies is illustrated by photos taken by the author showing children and teachers engaged in the activities discussed.  Children's artifacts and appropriate book titles are also included where appropriate.

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  50 Early Childhood Literacy Strategies, 2/E
  Beaty
  ©2009 | Merrill | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132079194 | ISBN-13: 9780132079198
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  50 Early Childhood Literacy Strategies is the answer to the early childhood teacher's dilemma of how to teach reading to children 3, 4, and 5 years of age as mandated by the state and national governments.  This text presents an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand approach involving young children's own emergence into the world of speaking and listening, reading and writing.  Teachers and student interns will quickly learn what picture books and activities to use with children, how to use them, and how children can benefit from their use.  They will learn what to expect as young children's writing emerges from scribbles to pictures and real words.  Finally, they will come to terms with the concept of emergent literacy as it appears in preschool children and evolves into conventional literacy as it is taught in elementary school.

   

  Professors and students alike will also learn what the latest reading research has to say about the core skills necessary for children to learn to read, as well as advances in neuroscience that give us new understandings of the human brain and how it processes information.  All of this new material is essential for professors to present in their courses and students to understand how to apply it as they proceed into the world of working with young children.

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  50 Early Childhood Strategies for Working and Communicating with Diverse Families
  Gonzalez-Mena
  ©2007 | Merrill | Paper; 144 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131888579 | ISBN-13: 9780131888579
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  For courses in Parents/Home-School Relations and Multicultural and Multiethnic Early Childhood Education.

   

  50 Early Childhood Strategies for Working and Communicating with Diverse Families is a practical and easy to use text.  The book presents key concepts, discusses them in research-based, accessible prose, and provides useful strategies to facilitate communication and collaboration.  The book focuses on family-centered care and education for young children and emphasizes partnering with families.  Many of the strategies in this text address ideas about how to create a climate of trust by communicating in a collaborative way.  The goal is to create inclusive programs that respect and honor differences in families and individuals.  Students will love the fifty short chapters with information they can apply immediately.  At the heart of all these strategies lies the welfare of the child.

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  50 Literacy Strategies for Beginning Teachers, 1-8, 2/E
  Norton & Land
  ©2008 | Merrill | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132243024 | ISBN-13: 9780132243025
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  50 Literacy Strategies for Beginning Teachers, 1-8, second edition, provides an instructional framework, based on research and best practice, for designing effective literacy lessons that include suggestions for before reading, during reading and after reading. Potential users will find ideas to create direct instruction and scaffolding for learners through building or activating background as preparation for learning, through providing assistance during learning, and through elaboration and application as extensions of learning. Throughout this instructional framework for literacy lessons, students are viewed as active participants in the construction of meaning. Fifty strategies are explained and illustrated with authentic text for major literacy competencies of word recognition (context clues, phonic analysis, and morphemic/structural analysis), vocabulary development, comprehension, and writing. The strategies are demonstrated through authentic texts for grade levels 1-8. Every strategy has been used with children by Winthrop University teacher education candidates in clinical and/or classroom settings. Since many of the strategies could fit multiple literacy competencies, a matrix on the end covers guides users of this text to navigate these possibilities.

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  50 Literacy Strategies: Step-by-Step, 3/E
  Tompkins
  ©2009 | Merrill | Paper; 176 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135158168 | ISBN-13: 9780135158166
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  The new edition of 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step by Gail E. Tompkins is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested strategies to develop literacy skills.  Everything you need to know to implement each instructional strategy - including appropriate grade level, adaptations for English learners and struggling readers, when and why to use the strategy, and as always, a step by step description of each activity- is  included in a consistent, easy-to-understand format.  Each strategy outlines an instructional focus: oral language, phonics/phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, spelling, or content areas.

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  50 Social Studies Strategies for K-8 Classrooms, 2/E
  Obenchain & Morris
  ©2007 | Merrill | Paper; 216 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131742493 | ISBN-13: 9780131742499
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  Here are 50 strategies for creating meaningful social studies experiences for K-8 students -- four overarching and forty-six specific strategies --organized alphabetically, accompanied by assessment tools, and introduced by grade level and National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) standards indicators.

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  50 Strategies for Active Teaching: Engaging K-12 Learners in the Classroom
  Guillaume, Yopp Edwards & Yopp
  ©2007 | Merrill | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 288 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132192721 | ISBN-13: 9780132192729
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  From three experts in teaching comes a 50 strategies text that is useful for preservice and inservice teachers up and down the grade levels and across the curriculum.  The text embeds strategies within a theoretical framework of active learning.  The step-by-step format helps teachers prepare easily and troubleshoot to maximize success.  Strategies are referenced by their usefulness for English learners and readers at different stages of development.  The text includes examples from many subject areas and grade levels.  The accompanying CD contains templates to assist teachers in using the strategies.

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  50 Strategies for Improving Vocabulary, Comprehension and Fluency, 2/E
  Herrell & Jordan
  ©2006 | Merrill | Paper; 264 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131712055 | ISBN-13: 9780131712058
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  50 Strategies for Improving Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Fluency, second edition, offers a practical approach of step-by-step instructional procedures for developing key literacy skills. Each strategy is supported by an authentic classroom example. An additional example of each strategy is provided on the free CD that accompanies the text. These teaching examples clearly identify how to implement the strategy and adapt its use to fit the needs of learners in a primary/elementary and then a middle/secondary classroom.

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  50 Ways to Develop Strategic Writers
  Tompkins & Blanchfield
  ©2005 | Merrill | Paper; 176 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131197908 | ISBN-13: 9780131197909
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  For Reading/Writing Methods in Middle School and Writing in Secondary School courses.

   

  With contributions from master teachers under the guidance of Gail Tompkins, Director of the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project, this text provides clear, step-by-step descriptions of 50 effective, proven strategies for helping learners in Grades 4 - 12 become competent strategic writers. Instructions for each strategy are shared by mentoring teachers who work in schools where the school population is 92% of English Language Learners.  These strategies will enable novice teachers to easily and quickly recreate the lessons and adapt them for many grade and ability levels.

   

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  Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, 3/E
  Herrell & Jordan
  ©2008 | Merrill | Paper; 335 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013199266X | ISBN-13: 9780131992665
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  The third edition of Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners includes a rich assortment of practical features to support teachers as they meet some of the more daunting challenges of the 21st century classroom.  All of the strategies in this book are aligned to the TESOL standards and have been field-tested in diverse classrooms.  Each strategy includes a brief explanation, step-by-step instructions in how to plan and use the strategy and two classroom scenarios demonstrating how the strategy can be adapted for different grade levels and content areas.  A new unique DVD included in the back of the text illustrates select strategies being used in a classroom dominated by English learners.  After the demonstration lesson, one of the authors interviews the teacher for insights into how the lesson was planned and the teacher's reasons for choosing the strategy.  The strategies include planning approaches, strategies for improving student involvement, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension.

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