Full Description
Covering development from early childhood through high school in an easy-to-follow format, this book provides you with authentic, research-based strategies and guidelines for your future classrooms. The authors apply child development concepts to topics of high interest and relevance to teachers, including social-emotional development, classroom discipline, humor, constructivism, and many others. Group and individual diversity and multicultural issues are integrated throughout. Case studies and real-world vignettes further bridge the distance between research and the classroom, helping to prepare you to create an environment that promotes optimal development in children. With its practical classroom-based focus, this text will help you view all students more positively, give you the tools to deal effectively with them, and make teaching more enjoyable. Also available: the MindTap online learning experience, with videos, applied activities, an e-portfolio, and more.
Contents
Section I: FOUNDATIONS OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT.
1. Ways of Thinking about Children.
2. Physical Development and Health.
Section II: THE COGNITIVE CHILD.
3. Classic Theories of Learning and Cognition.
4. Information Processing, Memory, and Problem Solving.
5 Cognitive Ability: Intelligence, Talent, and Achievement.
Section III: THE EMOTIONAL CHILD.
6. Attachment and Personality.
7. Self-Control and Discipline.
8. Emotional Development.
Section IV: THE SOCIAL CHILD.
9. Social Cognition.
10. Social Behavior.
11. Peers, Friends, and Play.
Section V: THE WHOLE CHILD.
12. Language and Literacy.
13. The Self-System and Motivation.
14. The Child in Context: Family Structure, Child Care, and Media.
Glossary.
References.
Name Index.
Subject Index.
