Inside PreK Classrooms: A School Leader’s Guide to Effective Instruction

Synopsis

The Book Helps School Leaders Build Deeper Understandings About Preschool Curriculum Content And Organization And Appropriate Instructional Strategies As Well As The Socioemotional, Physical, And Cognitive Behavior Of Preschoolers -- Introduction -- Managing The Preschool Classroom -- Are You Ready?: Organizing Instruction For Engagement -- I'd Love For You To Visit My Writing Center: Managing Center Time -- Please Hold Your Funnels Over The Table: Designing The Physical Environment -- They Can't Do This. They Just Aren't Ready: Supporting Self-regulation -- Preschoolers Learn Through Play -- They Fall Off Trees, I Guess: Socio-dramatic Play -- I Want A Dog, A Marble, And A Little Horse: Small-group Guided Play -- Eliza Has Her Own Way Of Doing Things: Playing With Learning -- Preschoolers Learn Literacy And Language Skills -- Are You A J Or A G?: Meeting Standards, And More -- Mom. How Do You Spell Cat?: Literacy Skills Development -- That's Fantastic. Wow, Such Great Colors! Beautiful!: One-on-one Conversations -- The Cat Might Go Into The Street And They'd Get Runned Over: Story-reading Goals -- Preschoolers Think -- I Think It's That Gilberto Boy: Responding To Story Misunderstandings -- I Know! Your Mind Sees K: Alphabet Letter Learning -- You Don't Know Many Words, Do You?: Different Paths To Learning -- Preschool Change Agents -- What Went Wrong?: Improving Principal-teacher Communication -- What Do I Do Now?: The Principal-consultant Team -- I Don't Want To Just House Prek Classrooms In My Building: A Model Principal's -- View Of Preschool. Judith A. Schickedanz And Catherine Marchant. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.