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Recommended Teacher Resources: Books
Infant and Toddler
Caring for Infants and Toddlers in Groups: Developmentally Appropriate Practice
By: J. Lally, Abbey Griffin, Emily Fenichel, Eleanor Szanton, Bernice Weissbourd
A guide to help infant and toddler caregivers to create and maintain the deep, responsive relationships that are the hallmark of quality.
The RIE Manual for Parents and Professionals
By: Magda Gerber
A manual for caregivers (and parents) working with infants detailing the Resources for Infant Educarer (RIE) philosophy on caring for infants with respect and enhancing their development.
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| No Biting: Policy and Practice for Toddler Programs
By: Gretchen Kinnell
A how-to manual for every toddler program seeking to deal with biting incidents from developmental, emotional and practical perspectives.
Good Going!: Successful Potty Training for Young Children in Child Care
By: Gretchen Kinnell
This comprehensive handbook addresses the issues involved when children learn to use the toilet in childcare as well as at home.
Early Childhood Education (children infant through eight)
Practical Solutions to Practically Every Problem: The Early Childhood Teacher's Manual
By: Steffen Saifer
Find solutions quickly and easily. Topics include working with English language learners, traumatic life events, using computers in the classroom and more.
Preschool Classroom Management: 150 Teacher Tested Techniques
By: Laverne Warner & Sharon Anne Lynch
A framework for classroom management that truly offers solutions and suggestions for tackling behavioral issues both before and as they arise in the classroom.
Parent-Friendly Early Learning: Tips and Strategies for Working Well with Parents
By: Julie Powers
Offers insight into the perspective of parents - giving classroom teachers information to promote positive and meaningful relationships with parents.
Let's Be Friends: Peer Competence and Social Inclusion in Early Childhood Programs
By: Kristen Mary Kemple
Addresses critical questions about how early childhood programs can help all young children develop competent social interaction skills.
Beyond the Curriculum: How Responsive Relationships and Thoughtful Teaching Enhance Quality Care
By: Association of Children's Services
Create relationship-based foundations from which kids can learn. Made for teachers by teachers.
Bringing Reggio Emilia Home
By: Louise Boyd Cadwell
The principles behind the Reggio Emilia Approach. A mix of case studies along with practical educator insight.
Designs for Living and Learning: Transforming Early Childhood Environments
By: Deb Curtis
The author outlines hundreds of ways to create healthy and inviting physical, social, and emotional environments for early childhood education programs in this truly beautiful book.
The Great Outdoors: Restoring Children's Right to Play Outside
By: Mary Rivkin
The author compellingly argues for ensuring that children have outdoor play and learning opportunities, describes exciting playgrounds in the U.S. and other countries, and provides practical information on safety, accessibility, and curriculum.
Building Classroom Community: The Early Childhood Teacher's Role
By: Jeannette Stone
Fostering positive values and a sense of community in young children is the heart of the early childhood teacher's role. With many years of experience in a variety of early childhood settings, esteemed author Jeannette Stone writes simply and powerfully of how to instill respect, responsibility, and compassion in today's young children.
The Sun's Not Broken, A Cloud's Just in the Way: On Child-Centered Teaching
By: Sydney Gurewitz Clemens, M.A.
Engaging book written with wisdom and experience, on the effectiveness of child-centered teaching
Making Learning Visible: Children as Individual and Group Learners
By: Reggio Children, Project Zero & Italy
Findings from a research project carried out from 1997 to 1999 by Harvard's Project Zero and Reggio Children, involving teachers and pedagogistas from the Municipal infant-toddler centers and preschools of Reggio Emilia.
Literacy
Writing in Preschool
By: Judith A. Schnickedanz & Renee M. Casbergue
The authors share many samples of children's writing, as well as specific strategies providing support for children's writing.
Building Literacy with Love
By: Betty S. Bardige & Marilyn M. Segal
This practical guide will help you learn the skills, concepts, and processes intrinsic to learning to read and write and ways adults can support that; examine how children from culturally diverse families and communities gain supportive literacy experiences; and benefit from numerous fun and practical activities to promote phonemics, phonetic awareness, alphabetic knowledge, and fluency.
Art
Rapunzel's Supermarket
By: Ursula Kolbe
Art with children - validating them as thinkers and explorers.
In the Spirit of the Studio: Learning from the Atelier of Reggio Emilia
By: Lella Gandini, Lynn Hill, Louise Cadwell & Charles Schwall
This book explores how the experiences of children interacting with rich materials in the atelier affect an entire school's approach to the construction and expression of thought and learning.
Child Development
Good Kids, Difficult Behavior: A Guide to What Works and What Doesn't
By: Joyce Divinity
Considers why traditional forms of discipline don't work with troubled kids who are unable to connect here-and-now actions with future consequences.
Please Don't Sit on the Kids: Alternatives to Punitive Discipline
By: Clare Cherry & Dianne Nielsen
Alternatives to punishment based on communication and gentle guidance.
You Can't Come to My Birthday Party!: Conflict Resolution with Young Children
By: Betsy Evans
A six-step problem-solving model for helping children find alternatives to hurtful words and aggressive behaviors.
Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Programs
By: Sue Bredekamp & Carol Copple
Reflects decades of discussion, research and experience to define appropriate practices with young children.
Childhood Development: From Neurons to Neighborhoods
By: Deborah A. Phillips & Jack P. Shonkoff
The result of an important study that explored many current and pressing issues relating to early childhood development.
What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
By: Lisse Eliot Ph.D.
With impressive depth and clarity, Eliot, a neuroscientist and mother of three, offers a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge about infant and early childhood brain development.
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