Learning Behaviours A Practical Guide To Self Regulation In The Early Years

Best-selling author and qualified early years teacher Sue Cowley looks at the way that behavior develops during the earliest years of a child’s life, exploring how babies and young children learn behaviors and move from co-regulation to self-regulation. Learning Behaviors gives practical advice about how to support children in learning all aspects of positive behavior while they are in your daycare, preschool or kindergarten. Sue explores the different behaviors that children need to learn and develop in order to be happy and successful learners in their future school careers and beyond. From learning how to share to learning how to pay attention; from learning how to be responsible to learning how to be kind – this book covers all these learning behaviors and much more. This is a book full of practical strategies, realistic suggestions and down-to-earth advice. Sue offers a step-by-step guide to getting behavior right, and a range of case studies to help you understand how the approaches work in practice.

Best-selling author and qualified early years teacher Sue Cowley looks at the way that behavior develops during the earliest years of a child's life, exploring how babies and young children learn behaviors and move from co-regulation to self-regulation. Learning Behaviors gives practical advice about how to support children in learning all aspects of positive behavior while they are in your daycare, preschool or kindergarten. Sue explores the different behaviors that children need to learn and develop in order to be happy and successful learners in their future school careers and beyond. From learning how to share to learning how to pay attention; from learning how to be responsible to learning how to be kind - this book covers all these learning behaviors and much more. This is a book full of practical strategies, realistic suggestions and down-to-earth advice. Sue offers a step-by-step guide to getting behavior right, and a range of case studies to help you understand how the approaches work in practice.

Self-regulation enables children to control their emotions and behaviour, interact positively with others and engage in independent learning. This book examines how self-regulation develops and describes practical ways for educators and care-givers to support its development.

All About SEMH is an accessible and informative guide for primary school teachers, designed to increase their understanding of social, emotional and mental health needs, and to enhance their toolkit with practical, evidence-informed strategies to support children in their care. The book unpicks key terminology and debunks myths and misconceptions, enabling teachers to more easily understand some of the challenges for learners with SEMH needs. It then explores a range of key areas, including anxiety, attachment, bullying and self-harm, and focuses on practical strategies and adaptations that can be made in every classroom. All About SEMH includes: A comprehensive introduction to social, emotional and mental health needs, and the surrounding terms and policies. Practical strategies tailored to different conditions to help provide targeted support to primary school learners. Case studies and worked examples to illustrate points in the book, supporting behaviour recognition and developing reader understanding. Discussion on different behaviour patterns in school and at home, with the voices of parents of children with SEMH woven throughout. Easy to dip in and out of chapters with signposting to further research, resources and support. This accessible guide is a valuable resource to empower primary educators, increasing their knowledge and understanding of SEMH, and providing a range of practical strategies to support every learner in their class. It will be essential reading for all primary school educators, SENCOs and parents who are supporting children with SEMH needs.

Grit. Determination. Mindset. Self-control. All these terms are attributes of self-regulated learning, which is the ability to manage impulses, stay focused on tasks through completion, and develop a sense of autonomy in learning to achieve academic success. In Self-Regulation in the Classroom, Richard M. Cash translates research and theory into easy-to-implement strategies and ideas you can use to help students—with special needs and without—become self-directed learners, including ways for them to: increase their engagement in learning boost their confidence avoid meaningless distraction develop effective study habits set and achieve goals use failure as a learning tool reflect and relax A foundation for promoting positive behavior and executive function skills, this book can help you meet the needs of all your learners and help them reach their potential in the classroom and in the real world. The teacher and student forms, charts, and lists in the book are downloadable for use in your classroom. Also available is a free study guide to be used in PLCs and book study groups. (more...)

Using a Person-Centred Approach in Early Years Practice reflects on the principles of person-centred counselling, developed by Carl Rogers. It guides students and practitioners to use this approach within the sphere of early childhood education, providing radical new ways of promoting emotions, emotional regulation and well-being. This accessible resource reveals how a therapeutic approach with a humanistic perspective can be understood and woven into early years professional practice by practitioners themselves. Exploring how educators can be supportive through empathy, understanding and congruent in developing relationships, this text provides: an overview and rationale to using a person-centred approach its association to emotions, health and well-being the role of therapeutic play in early years communities, from child, parents and wider team how a person-centred approach can impact leadership and teamwork its increasing necessity to supporting a child’s physical and emotional development during the pandemic and beyond With informed practice examples, case studies and thought-provoking questions regarding a PCA, this book will be essential and informative reading for students studying early years or early childhood courses and to practitioners looking to improve and enhance their practice.

This book supports students of Early Childhood Studies, Early Years and related disciplines to understand self-regulation in the early years. It explores what self-regulation is and includes evidence from cognitive, developmental and behavioural psychology and neuroscience. It asks why self-regulation is so central for children and why it is so important for practitioners to support and develop it in young children. The book explores how self-regulation underpins much of children’s development, including social, emotional and cognitive development. Key contexts for self-regulation, in particular aspects such as play and talk, are covered. This book supports students to: - know why self-regulation matters - understand why self-regulation is increasingly evident in policy and curricular around the world - focus on social, emotional and behavioural aspects of self-regulation - explore the importance of relationships in self-regulation – between children and adults and between children themselves - effectively observe and document self-regularion

Why do children do the things they do? What can teachers do to manage it all? While there is not a simple method for understanding and managing all behaviors or all children, teachers can give young children the social and emotional tools needed to grow and thrive on their own. Developed and tested in the classroom, Beyond Behavior Management, is a strength-based approach to guiding and managing young children's behavior by helping them build and use essential life skills—attachment, collaboration, self-regulation, adaptability, contribution, and belonging—into the daily life of the early childhood classroom. As a result, children will learn to exhibit more pro-social behaviors, work better as a community, and become excited and active learners. This edition includes two new chapters and content reflecting early learning standards, new research, cultural diversity, and strategies to strengthen the home-school connection. Discussion and reflection questions, exercises, journal assignments, child profile templates, a planning worksheet, and sample scripts are also included. Jenna Bilmes is an early childhood consultant and an instructional designer for WestEd Child and Family Services. She is a frequent presenter to teachers, administrators, and counselors nationally and internationally.

Nurturing Self-Regulation in Early Childhood explores how young children develop self-regulation and offers practical guidance on helping them to manage their feelings and behaviour. It considers the skills, attitudes and dispositions children need to be able to self-regulate and how their wellbeing and self-esteem can affect their ability to do this. Grimmer and Geens show how schools and settings can adopt an ethos where self-regulation permeates their whole provision. Considering the broad and multifaceted nature of self-regulation and how this key area of development shapes children and their learning, the chapters cover: developing empathy emotion coaching the practitioner as a co-regulator executive function and the sense of self and wellbeing international approaches to promoting self-regulation the role of the adult and environment in encouraging skills for self-regulation working effectively with parents and carers to ensure a consistent approach With a focus on developmentally appropriate expectations, this book is essential reading for all early childhood educators who want to develop their understanding of self-regulation and embrace an approach that underpins their practice and changes children’s lives.

This book gives primary student teachers the professional knowledge required to succeed in the classroom and an understanding of how to develop their teaching skills throughout their teacher training course. Taking the key themes of the ITT Core Content Framework, this comprehensive book covers every major aspect of contemporary teaching and supports new teachers in reflecting on what good pedagogic practice looks like and how to develop this through observing and learning from expert colleagues. Case studies, based on real examples provided by headteachers and other experts, offer the chance to explore day-to-day teaching issues in real life. Critical tasks and question guides challenge readers to deepen their practical knowledge. This is essential reading for all students on primary initial teacher education courses including university-based (PGCE, BEd, BA with QTS) and school-based (School Direct, SCITT, Teach First) routes into teaching.