Trouble in the Classroom: Managing the Behavior Problems of Young Children (The Jossey-Bass education series) - Tapa dura

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W. GEORGE SCARLETT is assistant professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University and lecturer in psychology at Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts. In addition to his duties as professor, Scarlett serves as a consultant, trainer, and program evaluator for Head Start and other early education programs.

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Anyone who has worked with a classroom of young children has had to balance the need to manage problem behaviors with the need to support children?s long-term development. In this vital resource, W. George Scarlett and his associates offer practical guidance for maintaining this balance, and they present a wealth of strategies for tackling behavior problems, building young children?s self-control, and developing classrooms into productive, caring communities. The methods described are based on a developmental approach that sensitizes teachers to the unique needs of the individual child, groups of children, and the classroom as a whole.

[ital]Trouble in the Classroom features contributions from master teachers, academics, and practitioners who write in concise language that is free of educational jargon. They present examples of teacher/child, child/child, and teacher/teacher interactions that help make complicated issues easy to comprehend. Most of all, they show the strenuous but incredibly rewarding process of letting development become the cure for behavior problems.

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Anyone who has worked with a classroom of young children has had to balance the need to manage problem behaviors with the need to support children's long-term development. In this vital resource, W. George Scarlett and his associates offer practical guidance for maintaining this balance, and they present a wealth of strategies for tackling behavior problems, building young children's self-control, and developing classrooms into productive, caring communities. The methods described are based on a developmental approach that sensitizes teachers to the unique needs of the individual child, groups of children, and the classroom as a whole.[ital]Trouble in the Classroom features contributions from master teachers, academics, and practitioners who write in concise language that is free of educational jargon. They present examples of teacher/child, child/child, and teacher/teacher interactions that help make complicated issues easy to comprehAnd. Most of all, they show the strenuous but incredibly rewarding process of letting development become the cure for behavior problems.