The Power of Guidance: Teaching Social-Emotional Skills In the Early Childhood Classroom gives readers valuable
insight into using guidance in the early childhood setting through a collection of popular writings on this timely
topic. Taking into consideration the social and emotional development in young children, the book examines such
areas as understanding why children behave the way they do and how to use the guidance approach to succeed in teaching
acceptable social behaviors. The material discusses the differences between such important concepts as patience
and understanding and between misbehavior and mistaken behavior. These concepts provide insight into the importance
of developing an encouraging classroom and how that leads to non-punitive strategies for managing the classroom
setting. The popular guidance concept of this book attracted the attention of the NAEYC, which has made it a comprehensive
member benefit for 2003.
Product Benefits:
Patience and understanding are differentiated, which is the key to using guidance.
Misbehavior and mistaken behavior are differentiated, helping teachers understand children's behavior.
Discipline versus guidance is discussed, giving teachers a new vocabulary for actions many already use.
Management strategies for an encouraging classroom give teachers non-punitive strategies for classroom management.
Intervention strategies with boys address commonly asked questions.
Table of Contents
1. Patience or Understanding?
2. Misbehavior or Mistaken Behavior?
3. Beyond Discipline to Guidance
4. The Guidance Premise: Family-Teacher Partnerships
5. Using Guidance to Build an Encouraging Classroom: Beyond Time Out
6. Using Guidance to Maintain an Encouraging Classroom: Four Intervention Alternatives
7. Sustaining the Encouraging Classroom: Class Meetings
8. Guidance with Boys in Early Childhood Classrooms
9. Societal Violence and Guidance: Liberation Teaching
10. Strong Needs Mistaken Behavior: Strategies for Crisis Management and Comprehensive Guidance
11. Using the Booklet, "Developmentally Appropriate Guidance," as a Training Tool
