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Making full use of Barbara Kaiser's 25 years of experience as a child care director and teacher, this text presents information and strategies to deal with the challenging behavior that teachers find more and more often in their classrooms.

Vignettes throughout the text featuring real children make these strategies come alive.

Based on the 40-page NAEYC booklet on the same topic, “Meeting the Challenge: Effective Strategies for Challenging Behavior in Early Childhood Environments” (1999), this new text explores the subject matter and strategies in greater depth with more up-to-date information. Additional chapters on resilience, culture, the brain, self-reflection, working with families, and bullying make this text a more comprehensive and useful resource.

In addition to two full chapters on preventing challenging behavior, three chapters provide specific strategies for responding to challenging behavior. Chapter 9, “Guidance and Punishment,” gives a balanced overview of traditional guidance strategies (e.g. positive reinforcement, consequences, and time-out). Chapter 10, “The WEVAS Strategy,” a new approach to challenging behavior that focuses on the teacher's response to the child, furnishes concrete, easy-to-use techniques. Chapter 11, “Functional Assessment,” presents a clear, concise overview of functional assessment, a strategy mandated by IDEA that views challenging behavior from the child's perspective. The appendices contain functional assessment charts and explanations of how to use them.

• User-friendly and conversational in tone, this text is well-organized, logical, and fun to read without sacrificing academic rigor. Numerous text boxes add spice and illuminate specific points (Chs. 1-13).

• Eclectic. This text brings together information from different disciplines and organizes it into a single package in a way that has never been done before. It presents several research-based strategies that can be used separately or together, providing students with a variety of tools that are appropriate for many different children and situations (Chs. 5-13).

• Culturally sensitive. Discussions of cultural influences on children's behavior and teachers' responses are integrated throughout the text. Chapter 6, “Understanding the Child's Family and Culture,” provides an in-depth look at the role of culture in children's identity and in teachers' relationships with children and families. Snapshots of the country's largest minority groups point out important cultural values that may lead to behavior being misperceived as challenging.

• This text emphasizes the importance of teacher-family partnerships throughout and provides information to help teachers comprehend and communicate with parents, even when they are saying things that parents do not want to hear (Chs. 2, 6, & 12).

• An entire chapter on bullying explains the characteristics of bullies, victims, and bystanders and provides suggestions about preventing bullying and helping children respond to it. Also contains useful information about working with parents of bullies and victims (Ch. 13).

• A full chapter devoted to behavior and the brain is based on the most recent and rigorous research (Ch. 4).

• Emphasizes how teacher, child, and environment interact to create challenging behavior (and appropriate behavior).

• A section called “What Do You Think?” is located at the end of each chapter, and asks questions to help students make the material their own.

All chapters conclude with “What Do You Think?,” “Suggested Reading,” and “References.”

Foreword by Sue Bredekamp.

Introduction.

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  Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively, 2/E
  Kaiser & Rasminsky
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 320 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0205493335 | ISBN-13: 9780205493333
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  Renowned authors Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminsky once again help teachers to discover effective ways to address challenging behavior in the classroom!

   

  Making full use of Barbara Kaiser's 30 years of experience as a child care director and teacher, the Second Edition of Challenging Behavior in Young Children provides an in-depth look into the latest research on understanding and preventing challenging behavior and offers practical and effective strategies for responding to it, including positive behavior support and functional assessment, as mandated by IDEA.

   

  Based on the authors’ 40-page booklet Meeting the Challenge (1999), this new edition maintains the personal touch and real-life examples teachers have grown to rely on. It includes new chapters on relationships and inclusion as well as the latest information on risk and protective factors, culture, the brain, self-reflection, working with families, and bullying.

   

  Challenging Behavior in Young Children emphasizes the teacher’s role in the behavior of children, helping students and educators to reflect on their own values, feelings, and actions. The result is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in the education of young children.

   

“What makes the authors' work so valuable is that it's as much about relationships as it is about strategies. Barbara has consulted with us at Family Communications about our “Challenging Behaviors” project. Now through this book, people who work closely with young children can benefit from what she and Judy have learned in their search to provide meaningful help to these children.”

- Fred Rogers, Creator and host of the PBS children's program, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood

“Wise but eminently practical. What you'll learn from reading this book will have a significant positive effect on you as a teacher and on the hundreds of children you will eventually touch.”

- Sue Bredekamp, author of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early Childhood Programs

“This textbook has been needed for a long time. It pulls together so many aspects of dealing with problem behavior and covers the field very well. It is up to date, accurate, and interesting to read. I particularly appreciate the fact that these authors are dealing with real children, real adults, and real situations.”

- Dorothy Hewes, San Diego State University

“The authors' scholarship and experience are evident throughout. The direct references to cultural sensitivity are extremely well done. The chapter addressing reflective teaching is also a welcome addition.... Multiple references to various theories and philosophies of intervention provide an effective and eclectic approach.”

- Diane E. Strangis, University of Florida

“Because this book really helps provide a framework for thinking about behavior, it is an extremely useful primary text for courses in elementary education.”

- Ed Greene, Montclair State University, NJ

“Full of good sense and good ideas. This book is clear, practical, sympathetic, and wise. It will be helpful to a great many parents and teachers and child care professionals, and to anyone else who spends time with or cares about children.”

- Lawrence Hartmann, M.D., Past President, American Psychiatric Association

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Southern Poverty Law Center
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
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Early Childhood Education: Birth - 8: The World of Children, Families, and Educators, 4/E
Driscoll & Nagel
©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Cloth; 496 pp | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205536042 | ISBN-13: 9780205536047
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