Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

Download or read book Overview MELQO written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-14 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Measuring Early Learning Quality and Outcomes (MELQO) initiative began in 2014 as part of the global emphasis on early childhood development (ECD). Led by UNESCO, the World Bank, the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and UNICEF, the initiative aims to promote feasible, accurate and useful measurement of childrenâs development and learning at the start of primary school, and of the quality of their pre-primary learning environments. Items are designed for children between the ages of 4 and 6 years. Following the premise that many existing tools include similar items, the leading organizationsâ core team worked with a consortium of experts, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and multilaterals to build upon current measurement tools to create a common set of items organized into modules for measuring: 1) early childhood development and learning, and 2) the quality of pre-primary learning environments. The MELQO core team and experts also collaborated to outline a process for context-specific adaptation of the measurement modules resulting from lessons learned from field-testing in several countries in 2015 and 2016. The modules are designed to be implemented at scale, with an emphasis on feasibility for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). A key question addressed by MELQO was the balance between a global tool suitable for use everywhere, and local priorities and goals for childrenâs development. [Introduction, ed]

Download or read book This Moose Belongs to Me written by Oliver Jeffers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the illustrator of the #1 smash hit The Day the Crayons Quit comes the age-old tale of a boy and his moose . . . Wilfred is a boy with rules. He lives a very orderly life. It's fortunate, then, that he has a pet who abides by rules, such as not making noise while Wilfred educates him on his record collection. There is, however, one rule that Wilfred's pet has difficulty following: Going whichever way Wilfred wants to go. Perhaps this is because Wilfred's pet doesn't quite realize that he belongs to anyone. A moose can be obstinate in such ways. Fortunately, the two manage to work out a compromise. Let's just say it involves apples. Oliver Jeffers, the bestselling creator of Stuck and The Incredible Book Eating Boy, delivers another deceptively simple book sure to make kids giggle.

Download or read book First Phonics Ages 3 4 Ideal for Home Learning Collins Easy Learning Preschool written by Collins Uk and published by Collins. This book was released on 2016-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This range of Maths and English activity books really helps to boost your child s progress at every stage of their learning. The series aims to build up important skills through activity-packed fun. Each activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement. Help boost confidence and develop good learning habits for life. Motivate children to learn at home using colourful activities that make learning fun. Include helpful tips and answers so that you easily support your child s learning at home."

Download or read book Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons written by Eric Litwin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning and bestselling Pete the Cat hardcover picture book! Count down with Pete in this rocking story that makes counting fun! Pete the Cat is wearing his favorite shirt—the one with the four totally groovy buttons. But when one falls off, does Pete cry? Goodness, no! He just keeps on singing his song—after all, what could be groovier than three groovy buttons? This book is a winner of the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award. Plus the fun never stops—download the free groovin’ song! Don't miss Pete's other adventures, including Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes, Pete the Cat Saves Christmas, Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses, Pete the Cat and the Bedtime Blues, Pete the Cat and the New Guy, Pete the Cat and the Cool Cat Boogie, Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes, Pete the Cat and the Perfect Pizza Party, and Pete the Cat: Crayons Rock!

Download or read book Off to a Good Start written by Laurie T. Martin and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2014 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on national, state, and local data, the Urban Child Institute partnered with RAND to explore the social and emotional well-being of children in Memphis and Shelby County, Tenn. The book highlights the importance of factors in the home, child care setting, and community that contribute to social and emotional development.

Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Download or read book Maisy Goes to Preschool written by Lucy Cousins and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maisy the mouse has a busy day at preschool dancing, painting, singing and doing other things.

Download or read book Phonics Ages 4 5 written by Louisa Somerville and published by Armadillo. This book was released on 2015-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes 60 gold star stickers - and 30 illustrated stickers for added fun and value. You can get a head start on classroom skills. It includes over 30 activities make phonics fun and easy - see three sleepy sheep eating green cheese, and meet a goose on a roof hooting at the moon, too With reusable stickers to put on every page, it includes progress tests and charts to track improvement and build ability. Teachers may photocopy pages for school use. This beautifully illustrated book is designed to teach essential skills in phonics, with fun-to-do activities and projects. It helps you to say and write ai as in sail, oa as in soap, ee as in feet, and use them in sentences. It offers gold stars and reward badges that provide encouragement every step of the way.

Download or read book My Map Book written by Sara Fanelli and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1995-07-20 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each spread of this bold and humorous picture book, available for the first time since 1995, children can examine their place in the world around them through detailed and engaging maps. Twelve beautifully illustrated maps such as Map of My Day and Map of My Tummy will fascinate children. When finished reading the book, children can unfold the jacket -- it turns into a poster-size map!

Download or read book Plugged in written by Patti M. Valkenburg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Youth and Media -- 2 Then and Now -- 3 Themes and Theoretical Perspectives -- 4 Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers -- 5 Children -- 6 Adolescents -- 7 Media and Violence -- 8 Media and Emotions -- 9 Advertising and Commercialism -- 10 Media and Sex -- 11 Media and Education -- 12 Digital Games -- 13 Social Media -- 14 Media and Parenting -- 15 The End -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z

Download or read book Maths Ages 3 5 written by Collins Easy Learning and published by Collins. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This range of Maths and English activity books really helps to boost your child s progress at every stage of their learning. The series aims to build up important skills through activity-packed fun. Each activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement. Help boost confidence and develop good learning habits for life. Motivate children to learn at home using colourful activities that make learning fun. Include helpful tips and answers so that you easily support your child s learning at home."

Download or read book Preschool English Learners written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How to Measure Everything written by Marie Greenwood and published by DK Children. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children learn how to measure everything including length, weight, volume, temperature, and time through pop-ups and flaps in this fun and educational activity book. There's even a life-size ruler on the jacket! Measuring is a key maths topic for early learners, and this book supports KS1 concepts. This bold and bright book helps kids understand the language and maths of measuring. Fun and simple lift-the-flap puzzles help kids to relate measuring to everyday life - from measuring lengths of pencils with a ruler to weighing fruit on scales. Other activities include a wheel with a clock face to help kids learn to tell the time. How to Measure Everything concludes with a colourful bedroom picture with a quiz that gets you to measure and compare lots of things in the scene. How to Measure Everything engages with a key maths topic in a new, interactive, and playful way.

Download or read book Lowercase Alphabet written by Barbara Gregorich and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practice "little" letters one at a time. This Lowercase Alphabet workbook from the Get Ready! series will help your child practice tracing and writing lowercase letters, which is an essential first step in learning to read. Plenty of bright-colored critters make it more fun! Plus, the illustrations will encourage your child to pronounce object names. Finish-the-word exercises help with beginning, middle, and ending sounds. With a pencil or crayon, and perhaps just a bit of coaching from you, your child will practice and learn for many happy hours.

Download or read book Preschool Basics written by Joan Hoffman and published by School Zone. This book was released on 2019-06-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents activities that will help prepare your child for success in kindergarten.

Download or read book ABC Letter Tracing Practice Workbook for Kids written by Coloring Book Kim and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more information about this book, visit our author profile on Amazon or our website www.coloringbookkim.com A handwriting practice book for kids. Simple, progressive writing instruction from easy, simple tasks, tracing lines to writing letters and numbers on their own. Prepare children for success in school with easy line tracing exercises. This handwriting exercise book includes: More than 150 pages of exercises: many engaging line-tracing tasks provide enough repetition, enough variety, to keep kids interested. Fun pictures that can be colored in. Step 1: Line Tracing : Start-Stop The adventure of writing begins with easy line drawing. Simple line tracing exercises from short strokes to increasingly longer strokes. Such exercises improve children's concentration and motor coordination. Step 2: Writing the alphabet from A to Z Trace lines on uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet. The letters have marked places to start writing, and arrows indicate the direction of movement. For easy association, each letter includes a picture. Step 3: Numbers 0 to 10 Trace lines on numbers 0 to 10. Numbers have markings where writing begins and arrows indicate direction of movement. For easy association, each number has an associated picture. Step 4: Writing Single Words : Alphabet A-Z Trace lines on previously learned words. Step 5: Writing single words: Numbers 0-10 Tracing lines on early learned numbers. Step 6: Writing Shape Names Trace lines on early learned shapes. Step 7: Writing the alphabet independently This time, let's already try writing independently. Step 8: Writing numbers from 0 to 10 independently This time let's already try writing numbers independently.. This handwriting workbook is the perfect workbook for learning how to write letters, numbers and words independently at home. It teaches, improves and reinforces learning to write. Develop and improve communication skills with simple exercises. Helps children begin learning to write letters of the alphabet and improve their handwriting. This workbook is designed for kids ages 3 and up. Specifications: Pages: 150+ Dimensions: 8.5 x 11 inches