Brief Description
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Kersey and Masterson s 101 Principles for Positive Guidance with Young Children is a reference tool, a guide, a handbook, and more for creating responsive teachers who foster respectful relationships through responsive teacher-child interactions and strength-based guidance strategies that promote emotional competence, self-regulation, and social and academic success for children. In 10 accessible chapters, educators will be forever changed by the impactful content addressing creating a caring community, guiding behavior, showing respect, giving nurturance, fostering independence, building resilience, preventing misbehavior, creating solutions to common behavior challenges, building bridges with families, and creating positive change. Multicultural and cross-cultural contexts are fully-integrated, with particular efficacy for children at-risk, English language learners, and those working in diverse and inclusive classrooms. Relational and practical solutions for working with parents in the most constructive and caring manner are also addressed and will help educators learn to build bridges between home and school. Using lively and accessible prose, the authors have written a truly user-friendly workbook with a seamless link between research and practice. The techniques presented are effective and practical, addressing every aspect of classroom guidance for young children."
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101 Principles for Positive Guidance with Young Children: Creating Responsive Teachers
Katharine C. Kersey and Marie L. Masterson This guide to positive discipline in young children serves as an interactive resource in professional development seminars, as a training guide for administrators and their teachers in an early childhood center or in primary grades, or in a college course. It has been field tested and used extensively throughout Virginia with numerous school district and preschool audiences and at state and national NAEYC sessions. The
101 principles help adults become conscious of their own practices and beliefs about guiding children. The evidence-based principles encourage self-awareness about the ways an adult s words, actions and responses influence the responses of children and others. Whether working through this book in a group or attending a training session, Kersey and Masterson empower teachers tocreate responsiverelationships with children and families by learning valuable skills in building children s social-emotional competence. Thephilosophy of relational respect supports the "powerhouse tools" of authentic connection, enriched language, pro-social skill development and self-regulation.
Katharine C. Kersey, Ed.D., is a university professor of Early Childhood Education, and founder and Director Emeritus of the Child Development/Child Study Centers at Old Dominion University. She served as chairperson of the Department of Early Childhood Education, Speech Language Pathology and Special Education for twenty-two years. The recipient of many prestigious awards, including the ODU Tonelson Award for outstanding teaching, and the SCHEV (State Council of Higher Education of Virginia) award for outstanding faculty, she has recently published articles with
Young Children and
Childhood Education. In addition to
The 101s, Dr. Kersey has authored three more books,
The Art of Sensitive Parenting,
Helping Your Children Handle Stress, and
Don t Take it Out on Your Kids, as well as co-authored
The First-Year Teacher, published by the National Education Association. Dr. Kersey is an oft sought-after expert of local television stations, newspapers, and other popular media on family, parent, and child-related issues, and has appeared on several national talk shows, including Oprah, Sonya Live, CNN, and the Les Brown Show.
Marie L. Masterson, Ph.D., is assistant professor of Early Childhood Education at Dominican University. She recently served as a Fulbright Specialist, working in conjunction with Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand to establish an early childhood education training institute. She coordinates Old Dominion University Director s Institute, which provides professional development for directors of licensed childcare centers for at-risk children. She is a national speaker, child behavior expert, researcher, and author of current articles published in Young Children and Childhood Education linking research to practice in early childhood education. Additionally, she provides educational consulting and professional development to childcare centers, schools, and organizations to build high-quality environments and establish responsive, positive instructional and relational interactions to support achievement and school adjustment for all children. Dr. Masterson is the former early childhood specialist for the Virginia Department of Education. "
Review Quotes
1. "The skills and tools provided with through the 101 principles of positive guidance have become a permanent fixture in my arsenal. These Tools are more than just methods and philosophies but truly a roadmap to improve the quality of life, self-esteem and future of every single child that we encounter."
- Valerie Bundy, District Manager, Kindercare "Not only have I benefitted from the101 positive principles of discipline, but also my program and staff have benefitted. The 101 principles have changed our staff's relationships, interactions and behaviors with children and parents, which have improved greatly. The 101s have influenced and given me new insight on what and how I need to evaluate myself and to be a support and role model to other staff. - K. Kim Jennings, Norfolk State University Child Development Lab Director"
