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Getting to the Heart of Learning: Social-Emotional Skills Across the Early Childhood Curriculum

AUTHOR Church, Ellen Booth
PUBLISHER Gryphon House (06/01/2015)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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The best learning emerges in a classroom community where children feel accepted and appreciated for their ideas and actions. Through the activities in Getting to the Heart of Learning, Ellen Booth Church shows teachers and caregivers how easy it is to foster children's sense of curiosity through group explorations that promote social connection and positive development. With step-by-step instructions, Getting to the Heart of Learning weaves social-emotional learning into activities that support math, science, literacy, and motor skills. Rather than adding in activities throughout the day, these explorations integrate social-emotional learning across the curriculum through group involvement and building community. Learn how to strengthen home-to-school connections, too, with easy strategies that help families develop a shared vision for student's social-emotional and academic success.Award Winner
Recipient of the:
  • 2015 Academics' Choice Smart Book Award
  • 2015 Tillywig Toy Brain Child Award
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Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780876595800
ISBN-10: 0876595808
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
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Page Count: 180
Carton Quantity: 23
Product Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.60 x 10.80 inches
Weight: 1.10 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Ikids, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Education | Schools - Levels - Early Childhood (Incl. Preschool & Kinder
Education | Teaching - General
Grade Level: College Freshman - College Freshman
Dewey Decimal: 372.21
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014022750
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The best learning emerges in a classroom community where children feel accepted and appreciated for their ideas and actions. Through the activities in Getting to the Heart of Learning, Ellen Booth Church shows teachers and caregivers how easy it is to foster children's sense of curiosity through group explorations that promote social connection and positive development. With step-by-step instructions, Getting to the Heart of Learning weaves social-emotional learning into activities that support math, science, literacy, language, and motor skills. Rather than adding in activities throughout the day, these explorations integrate social-emotional learning across the curriculum through group involvement and building community.
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The best learning emerges in a classroom community where children feel accepted and appreciated for their ideas and actions. Through the activities in Getting to the Heart of Learning, Ellen Booth Church shows teachers and caregivers how easy it is to foster children's sense of curiosity through group explorations that promote social connection and positive development. With step-by-step instructions, Getting to the Heart of Learning weaves social-emotional learning into activities that support math, science, literacy, and motor skills. Rather than adding in activities throughout the day, these explorations integrate social-emotional learning across the curriculum through group involvement and building community. Learn how to strengthen home-to-school connections, too, with easy strategies that help families develop a shared vision for student's social-emotional and academic success.Award Winner
Recipient of the:
  • 2015 Academics' Choice Smart Book Award
  • 2015 Tillywig Toy Brain Child Award
Show More

Author: Church, Ellen Booth
Ellen Booth Church, a former associate professor of early childhood at SUNY Farmingdale, has shared her unusual approach of combining cognitive learning experiences with creative play in a variety of books, magazines, and articles for early childhood educators. Ellen is currently writing and consulting for Scholastic's Parent and Child Magazine.
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