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In this issue...
Ages & Stages Learning Activities in Spanish
Extending the Dance in Infant and Toddler Caregiving: Enhancing Attachment and Relationships by Helen H. Raikes & Carolyn Pope Edwards Customer Service
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As our population becomes more diverse, you are more likely to have children who speak a language other than English in your classroom and whose families come from a different country or culture. Here are four easy steps you can take to promote positive development of your second-language learners along with all the rest of the children in your class. Suzette Guiffré
Get pointers from Brookes authors at NAEYC Put the principles behind Sid the Science Kid to work in your classroom The energetic and inquisitive Sid of Sid the Science Kid starts each episode of the educational PBS KIDS series with a question ("Why do bananas get mushy?") and embarks on a fun-filled day of finding answers with the help of family and friends. What children watching the show don't know is that behind Sid's antics is an evidence-based approach designed to encourage children's natural wonder and build a strong foundation for early science exploration that you can implement in your classroom. Teachers attending the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) conference in November have a chance to learn firsthand how to support preschoolers' science learning with lessons from Sid the Science Kid. Kimberly Brenneman and Moisés Román, scientific advisors to the show and co-authors of Preschool Pathways to Science (PrePS™)—the teaching approach behind Sid the Science Kid—will offer practical ideas for ways to create a more supportive environment for preschool science. Amazing Babies! Get the latest on infant and toddler development Also presenting at NAEYC this year is well-respected authority on infant and toddler care Alice Honig, author of the forthcoming Little Kids, Big Worries: Stress-Busting Tips for Early Childhood Classrooms. In her talk on Amazing Babies!, Dr. Honig will outline key research findings in infant and toddler development and interactions. Participants will receive handouts that translate those findings into specific suggestions for optimal practice in areas such as Attachment, Assessment, Brain Development, Toilet Learning, Touch, and TV. Not at NAEYC? Find tips in our Author Q&As If you can't make it to the conference, you can still get advice from Dr. Honig on how to recognize the signs of stress in young children and ideas from Dr. Rochel Gelman, also a co-author of Preschool Pathways to Science (PrePS), on how to cultivate young "scientists in waiting," in our Author Q&As.
Help the most vulnerable babies What early intervention and child welfare professionals can learn from each other Children birth to 3 who have been maltreated are more likely than any other group of children to have fragile health and developmental disabilities and delays. Yet, these most vulnerable children historically have had less access to early intervention services that are so critical for healthy progress and bright futures. In her new book, Reversing the Odds: Improving Outcomes for Babies in the Child Welfare System, lawyer and longtime child advocate Sheryl Dicker explains what early intervention and child welfare professionals need to understand about each other's systems to ensure better outcomes for babies. Efforts to accelerate the access of children in the child welfare system to early intervention services were boosted considerably by new provisions of the federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). In Reversing the Odds, Ms. Dicker illustrates how the city of Philadelphia took the CAPTA requirements even further to require that all children under 5 who come into the system be screened and monitored, not only children under 3 in substantiated cases of abuse or neglect.
Selected upcoming conferences National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) ZERO TO THREE National Training Institute |
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