A Matter of Trust: Connecting Teachers and Learners in the Early Childhood Classroom (Early Childhood Education Series)

publication date: 30/09/2002
ISBN13: 9780807742648
Format: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 192
ID: 9780807742648
ISBN10: 0807742643

By: Carollee Howes (author), Sharon Ritchie (author)Paperback

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Description

The authors draw on their experiences as a developmental psychologist and as a teacher educator to provide ways for teachers to create positive child-teacher relationships and classroom climates. This forward-looking volume applies attachment theory to child-teacher relationships...explores strategies that teachers can use to foster positive student behavior...provides narrative examples from early childhood classrooms serving primarily low-income children of color...and uses stories from exemplary classrooms as well as those in which teachers are struggling with relationships.