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For grades K-8. This user-friendly resource provides clear and concise descriptions of children's growth and development (physical, social, language, and cognitive) and expectations for the classroom (reading, writing, math, science, and social studies). The author writes with warmth and humor as he combines research, theory, and practical knowledge to offer a better understanding of children as they reach yearly stages of development. For each age group, the book includes:
- Charts summarizing growth patterns: physical, social, language, and cognitive
- Suggestions for curricular areas: reading, writing, mathematics, and thematic units
- Recommended reading for children, parents, and teachers.
Beyond Heroes and Holidays is an interdisciplinary guide for teachers, administrators, students, and parents. Through lessons and readings, they share examples of how educators, staff, students, and parents can work together to transform the curriculum, rather than simply adding to current frameworks. It also goes beyond the classroom to address such issues as tracking, parent/school relations, and language policies.
Designed to meet the unique needs of after-school programs, camps, and recreation centers, this book includes hundreds of hands-on, engaging activities. The activities teach creative conflict-resolution skills to school-age children through games, cooperative team challenges, drama, crafts, music, and even cooking. Each activity is followed by a period of reflection. The guide also includes easy-to-implement strategies and tips for staff and service providers to use in reducing conflict in their programs and intervening effectively when conflict does occur. The guide is based on an approach to teaching conflict-resolution skills called the Peaceable Program model. Five themes are emphasized: cooperation, communication, emotional expression, appreciation for diversity, and conflict resolution.
This report documents a program called New Strategies for Violence Prevention Schools & Communities Working Together, a summer Institute for school practitioners that took place in July 1995 at HGSE. This program aimed at stimulating problem-solving, coalition-building frames of mind and at helping participants to see themselves as team builders when they returned to their home systems to design or implement preventive programs.
Introducing various perspectives that look at the changes in theories, attitudes, approaches, and practices in adult-youth relationships, this issue stresses a model of growth based on partnership and connection over older theories of autonomy and hierarchy between adults and youth. These ways of viewing young people's contributions as extremely important to societal development have to be increasingly embedded in a perspective that young people grow and thrive in relationships and that social institutions, especially families, schools, and youth-serving organizations, have to change dramatically. Contributors also demonstrate how much common ground exists between older and emerging models of youth development and how much work remains to be done.
This book explores conflict resolution strategies and presents a systematic approach to mediation for peer helpers. The first part examines conflict resolution. Internal and external sources of conflict are considered. Irritations, inappropriate expectations, and unknown sources of external conflict are examined. A section on looking inside ourselves discusses how to meet psychological needs, the impact of feelings on behavior, identifying feelings, listening for feelings, and acknowledging the feelings of others. The process of making choices and resolving conflict are examined. Making enlightened choices is presented in three steps: examining the alternatives, evaluating the consequences of each alternative, and making a choice. Defining the conflict, and traditional strategies for coping with conflicts are presented. A bill of rights for individuals in conflict are presented. Suggestions for the bill of rights include: the right to timeliness, direct confrontation, privacy, an egalitarian relationship, consent or dissent, change and grow, apologize or correct the situation, and the right to forgive and receive forgiveness. The second part of the book focuses on mediation. A 15-step peer mediation program is outlined, and an overview of the peer mediation process is presented. Additional thoughts on mediation such as working together to resolve the conflict, competition is not the enemy, influence, resistance, manipulation, and positive perceptions are discussed.
This guide is for a novice or veteran teacher, program director or educator, school-age caregiver or youth worker, it will help weave school content into all kinds of afterschool programs. Designed as a write-in notebook for individuals, or for use by groups for creative, hands-on professional development, the Guide offers everything from easy-to-read summaries of K - 12 content and standards for math, language arts, science, social studies, and the arts to chapters on planning and assessment in afterschool.
This looks at three distinct age ranges: 5-8, 9-11, 12-14, and provides a glimpse of wide span child development that exists along the broader continuum of human development.
This includes a bibliography, suggested readings & related resources, thematic planning questions, and a feedback form.
This booklet provides activities to enrich students' academic and social skills.
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