Working with Young Children focuses on the application of child development principles to the care of children in group settings. Introduce your students to the fast-growing field of child care services, and help them learn the necessary skills. This popular text features an inviting, colorful format and up-to-date topics.
-- Topics include the CDA credential; guidance principles; water play, sand play, and blockbuilding experiences; new social studies topics; and more on-the-job application process.
-- Helps students develop effective skills for guiding children and for keeping them safe and healthy.
-- Provides instruction for setting up a developmentally-appropriate environment.
-- Covers planning and implementing curriculum that will meet children's needs and hold their interest.
-- Includes hundreds of full-color photos taken in actual child care settings.

Working with Young Children focuses on the application of child development principles to the care of children in group settings. Introduce your students to the fast-growing field of child care services, and help them learn the necessary skills. This popular text features an inviting, colorful format and up-to-date topics.
-- Topics include the CDA credential; guidance principles; water play, sand play, and blockbuilding experiences; new social studies topics; and more on-the-job application process.
-- Helps students develop effective skills for guiding children and for keeping them safe and healthy.
-- Provides instruction for setting up a developmentally-appropriate environment.
-- Covers planning and implementing curriculum that will meet children's needs and hold their interest.
-- Includes hundreds of full-color photos taken in actual child care settings.

Use Working with Young Children to introduce your students to the fast-growing field of child care services! This popular text applies child development principles to child care settings. Your students will develop skills for guiding children effectively while keeping them healthy and safe. Eighty new photos enhance the inviting, colorful format of this new edition. Internet activities have been added to every chapter. This text provides current health, safety, and nutrition information. New and expanded topics include technology, cultural diversity, family stressors, and child care careers.

Use Working with Young Children to introduce your students to the fast-growing field of child care services! This popular text applies child development principles to child care settings. Your students will develop skills for guiding children effectively while keeping them healthy and safe. Eighty new photos enhance the inviting, colorful format of this new edition. Internet activities have been added to every chapter. This text provides current health, safety, and nutrition information. New and expanded topics include technology, cultural diversity, family stressors, and child care careers. This book is designed as a training guide for obtaining the Child Development Associate National Credential (CDA). Mastering CDA Competencies is to be used in conjunction with the text Working with Young Children and provides practical exercises that apply to each of the CDA Competency Goals and Functional Areas.

Use Working with Young Children to introduce your students to the fast-growing field of child care services This popular text applies child development principles to child care settings. Your students will develop skills for guiding children effectively while keeping them healthy and safe. Eighty new photos enhance the inviting, colorful format of this new edition. Internet activities have been added to every chapter. This text provides current health, safety, and nutrition information. New and expanded topics include technology, cultural diversity, family stressors, and child care careers.

Use Working with Young Children to introduce your students to the fast-growing field of child care services! This popular text applies child development principles to child care settings. Your students will develop skills for guiding children effectively while keeping them healthy and safe. Eighty new photos enhance the inviting, colorful format of this new edition. Internet activities have been added to every chapter. This text provides current health, safety, and nutrition information. New and expanded topics include technology, cultural diversity, family stressors, and child care careers. Teacher's Resource Portfolio and CD contain effective teaching aids, such as test masters, handouts, and color transparencies.

Winner of the Early Childhood News Directors' Choice Award! Perfect for early childhood educators, caregivers, and Parents alike. Creative Resources for Infants and Toddlers Series is a series of titles divided by child care center and classroom criteria. This series explores child development at the critical stages of life, such as the predictable and universal patterns of development that occur in all domains, including physical, cognitive, language and communication, social, and emotional. The resources are arranged by age: Infant Resources: birth to six months, and seven months to 12 months, and Toddler Resources: 13 to 24 months and 25 to 36 months. Understanding developmental norms allows caregivers and parents to create and implement experiences that support and enhance the various levels of child development. With additional references, Web links, and online resources associated with each individual age group, Creative Resources for Infants and Toddlers Series provides all the information needed to understand the developmental needs of the child.