Foreword by Sue Bredekamp
Preface
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: What Is Challenging Behavior?
CHAPTER 2: Risk Factors
CHAPTER 3: Protective Factors
CHAPTER 4: Behavior and the Brain
CHAPTER 5: Relationship, Relationship, Relationship
CHAPTER 6: Opening the Culture Door
CHAPTER 7: Preventing Challenging Behavior: The Social Context
CHAPTER 8: Preventing Challenging Behavior: Physical Space, Routines and Transitions, and Teaching Strategies
CHAPTER 9: Guidance
CHAPTER 10: Functional Assessment and Positive Behavior Support
CHAPTER 11: The Inclusive Classroom
CHAPTER 12: Working with Families and Other Experts
CHAPTER 13: Bullying
APPENDIX A: Reflective Checklists for Chapters 7 and 8
From award-winning writers Barbara Kaiser and Judy Sklar Rasminksy comes the third edition of their best-selling text, Challenging Behavior in Young Children: Understanding, Preventing, and Responding Effectively, an up-to-date survival guide for teachers struggling to find answers to challenging behavior in the classroom.
Highlighting the importance of relationships, the revised book provides new background information and additional research-based strategies to enable pre-service and in-service teachers to understand, prevent, and respond effectively to challenging behavior. The authors have widened the book’s scope to make this edition as useful to primary school teachers as it is to preschool and child care educators, furnishing numerous practical, indispensable tips for responding to children’s needs and helping them know what’s expected. The text stresses that every child has some kind of special need, especially children with challenging behavior, and prevention is the best intervention.
The authors have also added material on inclusion, autism, culture, and dual-language learning, as children with disabilities, children from diverse families, and children who speak languages other than English join the classroom mix in greater numbers. The book retains its personal touch and real-life examples, drawing on Barbara’s three decades in the field, and is replete with in-depth background information, strategies, and evidence-based techniques necessary to help pre-service and practicing teachers understand, prevent, and address the behavior problems found so often in today’s primary schools and child care centers, to work with the most difficult behaviors, and to benefit every child in the classroom. Challenging Behavior in Young Children, Third Edition emphasizes the teacher’s role in the behavior of children, encouraging students and educators to reflect on their own values, feelings, and actions. The result is an invaluable resource for everyone involved in the education of young children.
Barbara Kaiser is the former director of a child care center who has spent 30 years working with young children, their teachers, and their families. Now a consultant in early care and education, she frequently gives keynote addresses and workshops on challenging behavior throughout the United States and Canada. She has taught at Acadia University in Nova Scotia and Concordia University in Montreal.
Judy Sklar Rasminsky is a professional writer with special
expertise in child care and family issues. She has won several
awards for her work, which has appeared in American and Canadian
magazines as well as college and high school textbooks.
CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR IN YOUNG CHILDREN: UNDERSTANDING, PREVENTING,
AND RESPONDING EFFECTIVELY, Third edition “An invaluable
guidebook …. In this third edition, Kaiser and Rasminsky fulfill
the promise of the book’s title by providing an eminently readable
foundation for teachers to understand, prevent, and respond
effectively to challenging behavior in young children…. This book
could not be more timely or more needed.”--From the foreword by Sue
Bredekamp, author of Developmentally Appropriate Practice in Early
Childhood Programs “Kaiser and Rasminsky’s many notable
changes and additions make an already great book even better. The
third edition of Challenging Behavior in Young Children will be a
useful tool for higher education faculty, administrators, and
teachers. The authors have clearly articulated a framework that is
designed to prevent challenging behavior by promoting social
emotional competence. I believe that type of framework is necessary
for meeting the needs of all children in early childhood
settings.” --Mary Louise Hemmeter, Vanderbilt University, and
Director, Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early
Learning (CSEFEL) “This book is a must-read for every
early learning educator, from the novice to the most experienced.
Kaiser and Rasminsky have early learning in their bones–best
evidenced by the warm, caring, professional advice offered in this
book; from establishing a positive classroom environment to
developing cultural competence and teaching social-emotional
skills. All the while the authors keep it real with practical
teaching tips, clearly distilled research, and lively classroom
examples on virtually every page.” --Joan Cole Duffell, Executive
Director, Committee for Children “I’m very enthusiastic about
this book. It’s interesting, reader friendly, and has a solid
research foundation. Best of all, the information is extremely
useful.”--Janet Gonzalez-Mena, author of Diversity in Early Care
and Education “A powerful resource for understanding and
working in a caring and respectful way with the neediest children.”
--Diane Levin, author of The War Play Dilemma “Definitely my
textbook of choice. It makes my teaching so much easier.”
--Isaura Barrera, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, author
ofSkilled Dialogue “A deeply sensible and valuable book that
presents interesting, practical, and academically rigorous material
in a style that’s always easy to read. What a great contribution to
the field.”
–Frances Stott, Erikson Institute According to an Insta
Poll by Child Care Exchange, over the last 5 years no problem has
troubled teachers more than challenging behavior. Challenging
Behavior in Young Children provides the strategies they
crave. The recipient of a Texty Award for textbook excellence,
Challenging Behavior in Young Children is in the judges’ words “an
absolute winner.”
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