Enthusiastic and engaged learners : approaches to learning in the early childhood classroom

Summary: "This new resource will help early childhood professionals implement strategies to support young children's positive approaches to learning-their enthusiasm (interest, joy, and motivation to learn) and their engagement (attention, persistence, flexibility, self-regulation, and other essential learning behaviors). Along with extensive research, the text includes images of practice in early education programs in culturally, economically, and linguistically diverse settings."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0807748803
ISBN: 9780807748800
ISBN: 9780807775516
ISBN: 0807775517
Physical Description: print
xii, 163 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press ; Washington, DC : National Association for the Education of Young Children, ©2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"NAEYC item 733"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-154) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Part I, Setting the stage for action: Four questions to consider -- What are positive approaches to learning? -- Why do positive approaches to learning matter? -- How do children develop positive approaches to learning? -- What undermines children's positive approaches to learning? -- Part II, Transforming risks into opportunities: Evidence-based tools to support positive approaches to learning -- Tools to build closer relationships with all children -- Tools to find and use more effective curriculum -- Tools to teach in ways that promote positive approaches to learning -- Tools to assess children's approaches to learning -- Tools that tap the power of families -- Tools to create change.