Title
Starting with their strengths : using the project approach in early childhood special education / Deborah C. Lickey, Denise J. Powers ; foreword by Lesley Koplow.
ISBN
9780807752357 hardcover alkaline paper
0807752355 hardcover alkaline paper
9780807752340 paperback alkaline paper
0807752347 paperback alkaline paper
Publication Details
New York : Teachers College, c2011.
Language
English
Description
x, 164 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Call Number
LC4019.3 .L54 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.90973
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to using the project approach when teaching young children with special needs. While focusing on children's individual strengths, which include their interests, intelligences, and unique styles of learning, this resource demonstrates teaching strategies that address multiple areas of development. Using scenarios from their own practice, The authors examine the process of accessing children's strengths to facilitate social, emotional, cognitive, and motor development, including concepts and skills. The authors provide tools to determine, organize, and plan with children's strengths and demonstrate the use of documentation as an authentic assessment of children's skills and goals. Teachers will use this book to create learning environments that enrich learning for all children. -- Publisher description
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-156) and index.
Series
Early childhood education series (Teachers College Press)
Imagining the possibilities of strengths-based learning
Identifying each child's strengths
Getting started : the vital role of observation and documentation
Developing play and social skills through emotional regulation
Promoting development through strengths and interests
Planning within a strengths-based emergent curriculum
Processing strengths-based IEPs
Growing stronger through a strengths-based approach.