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Socially Strong, Emotionally Secure, Parent Edition

Activities to promote resilience in young children

Socially Strong, Emotionally Secure provides parents with resilience-building activities to assist and support children in developing these skills. By offering parallel activities educators use with the childen, to parents to do at home, reinforces and extends specific learning beyond the setting or classroom.

Ages: 3-7 | Pages: 74 | Code: 0984 | ISBN: 9781776553044

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Nefertiti Bruce

Nefertiti Bruce, M.Ed. is an Early Childhood Specialist and trainer for the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI), and provides professional development and consultation to early childhood programmes across the United States. Nefertiti is the co-author of Building your bounce: Simple strategies for a resilient you, a tool to help adults strengthen their resilience.

Devereux is the US’s largest non-profit educational and behavioural health care organisation. With a focus on promoting young children’s healthy social and emotional development and resilience, to date the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI) has helped more than 3 million children across the US. In 2009, the Devereux Center for Resilient Children (DCRC) was created to advance Deveruex’s commitment to primary prevention and promotion of resilience of all children.

Karen Cairone

Karen B. Cairone, M.Ed. is a Special Projects/Trainer for the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI), where she is responsible for resource development, serves as editor of the national newsletter, and works on various other special projects for DECI. She is the co-writer and co-producer of the Facing the challenges DVDs, Classroom moments DVD and accompanying training, and the co-author of For now and forever: A family guide for the social and emotional development of infants and toddlers.

Devereux is the US’s largest non-profit educational and behavioural health care organisation. With a focus on promoting young children’s healthy social and emotional development and resilience, to date the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative (DECI) has helped more than 3 million children across the US. In 2009, the Devereux Center for Resilient Children (DCRC) was created to advance Deveruex’s commitment to primary prevention and promotion of resilience of all children.

Contents

Introduction4
Learning story: All about eggs5
Planning documents and examples17
Adult-led focused activity plan17
Open-ended plan for adult-supported group investigation18
Continuous learning plan19
Open-ended provocation plan20
Environment enhancement plan21
Planning example from cocoon provocation22
Planning example from frozen balloons provocation23
Observation documents24
Focused written observation record24
Photographic observation record26
Snapshot observation record28
Digital observation record29
Record of reflection and discussion on work produced31
Sustained shared thinking cards33
Template33
Arts and crafts34
Book corner35
Construction36
Information communications technology37
Investigation area38
Malleability39
Mark-making table40
Music41
Numeracy42
Role-play43
Sand44
Small world45
Snack46
Water47
Orientation and training resources48
The project approach: key points48
What is the difference between topic work and project work?49
Simple provocation50
Full-scale project50
An overview of a full-scale project51
An educator's role in the project approach53
Forms of observation53
Life-long learning skills developed through the project approach54
Open-ended planning55
Open-ended question prompt cards56
Concluding the project – reflecting on what has been learnt63
Sharing what has been learnt64