This work is a comprehensive guide to identifying and working with young children with advanced development. Louise Porter shows how to identify gifted children aged 0 to 8 years and how to challenge them without pushing too hard. She suggests strategies for ensuring their emotional and social adjustment, including ways to enhance self-esteem, increase their resilience to stress and promote friendships. She provides guidelines for counselling children about their giftedness and shows how professionals can help families in their efforts to meet their children's needs. Different strategies for educating gifted young children are assessed, and issues faced by immigrant families with gifted children are also addressed. This is a reference book for teachers and other early childhood professionals and a useful resource for parents of children who are or may be gifted.

Gifted Young Children: A Guide for Teachers and Parents

Education & Teaching

Porter, Louise

Schools & Teaching

Open Univ Pr

Behaviour management in the classroom and playground is one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. Behaviour in Schools offers a comprehensive overview of the major theories of behaviour management in primary and secondary schools, illustrated with detailed case studies.The theories covered range from teacher-dominated methods to more democratic approaches. They include assertive discipline, applied behaviour analysis, the new cognitive behavioural approaches, neo-Adlerian theory, humanism, Glasser's control theory and systems theory. The emphasis is on proactive approaches to discipline which allow teachers to achieve their educational and social goals for their students and themselves. Porter also shows how to enhance students' motivation and help students become confident and independent learners.Porter outlines how schools can write a discipline plan and develop anti-violence strategies, and how teachers can develop a personal approach to classroom management based on a solid understanding of theory. She also provides guidelines for working with parents and colleagues.Behaviour in Schools is a textbook for education students and a reference for experienced teachers who want to improve their ability to cope with disruptive behaviour.

Behaviour In Schools

Open University Press

Praise for the first edition: ... a wealth of creative ideas and practical advice for developing the talents of this under-served population. Her humour and candor, compassion and insight will endear her work to readers internationally. - Joan Franklin Smutny, Director, Center for Gifted, National-Louis University, USA. a comprehensive text that will meet the needs of a wide range of readers from early childhood professionals and teachers to parents. - Wilma Vialle, The Australasian Journal of Gifted Education. Gifted Young Children is a practical guide to identifying and supporting young children who may be gifted or talented. Louise Porter outlines how to identify and provide educationally for children aged up to 8 years with advanced development. She also explains how teachers and parents can promote the children's emotional and social adjustment, including ways to enhance self-esteem, encourage friendships and support their autonomy. She shows how parents can discuss giftedness with children and respond to their needs. resource for parents and anyone working with or caring for a gifted or talented child.

Gifted Young Children: A Guide For Teachers and Parents: A guide for teachers and parents

Behaviour management in the classroom and playground is one of the most challenging aspects of teaching. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the major theories of behaviour management in primary and secondary schools. This edition includes new material on collaborating with parents, ethical issues, and more.

Behaviour in Schools

A Comprehensive Guide to Classroom Management

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Routledge

Gifted Young Children: A guide for teachers and parents

Gifted Young Children is a practical guide to identifying and supporting young children who may be gifted or talented.\nLouise Porter outlines how to identify and provide educationally for children aged up to 8 years with advanced development. She explains how teachers and parents can promote children's emotional and social adjustment, including ways to enhance self-esteem, encourage friendships and support their autonomy. She shows how parents can discuss giftedness with children and respond to their needs.\nUpdated to reflect recent research, this second edition is a valuable resource for parents and anyone working with or caring for a gifted or talented child.\nPraise for the first edition:\na wealth of creative ideas and practical advice for developing the talents of this under-served population. Her humour and candor, compassion and insight will endear her work to readers internationally.'\nJoan Franklin Smutny, Director, Center for Gifted, National-Louis University, USA\na comprehensive text that will meet the needs of a wide range of readers from early childhood professionals and teachers to parents.'\nWilma Vialle, The Australasian Journal of Gifted Education\ninteresting, clear and comprehensive'\nHelen Wilson, Research Centre for Able Pupils, Oxford Brookes University,UK

Gifted Young Children

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Student Behaviour: Theory and practice for teachers

Young Children's Behaviour: Guidance approaches for early childhood educators

'The book provides a comprehensive, yet practical discussion of guidance strategies that can be implemented in a variety of situations. These strategies promote a respect for children and their rights, enhance children's self-esteem, and help to foster pro-social skills. This book is a must-read for both students and practitioners who work with children and families.' - Dr Laura McFarland, School of Education, Charles Sturt University\nDrawing on the latest research evidence, Young Children's Behaviour outlines the beliefs and values that underpin the guidance approach to managing the behaviours of children from birth to eight years of age. In contrast with rewards-and-punishment systems, guidance believes that children do not need incentives to behave well, but instead need skills. Rather than punishing them for lacking skills, guidance teaches young children self-regulation skills so that they can behave considerately.\nThe author provides practical strategies that both meet children's needs and safeguard the rights of surrounding adults and children. These methods include listening, being assertive, giving positive instructions, solving problems collaboratively, and coaching children to self-regulate their emotions and impulses. The text also offers advice on responding to many common challenges including separation distress, meltdowns, aggression, and social withdrawal. Finally, the book suggests how educators can provide educational and behavioural support for children with atypical development and describes how to foster effective relationships with parents whose children display challenging behaviours.\nDr Louise Porter powerfully argues that behaviour guidance is the most effective approach to working with young children and reflects the deepest values of early childhood education and care.

Police Integrity Management in Australia: Global Lessons for Combating Police Misconduct (Advances in Police Theory and Practice)

In the past two decades, Australia has been the site of major police misconduct scandals and inquiries, leading to reform initiatives at the cutting edge of police integrity management practices. Presenting interviews with key informants and an analysis of key documents, Police Integrity Management in Australia: Global Lessons for Combating Police Misconduct offers a comprehensive study, conducted from 2008 to 2010, of strategies and systems in Australia. Providing a rare overview and critique of a full suite of policies, institutions, and programs adopted to combat misconduct in policing, this volume: <ul> <li>Outlines the global problem of police misconduct and its effects</li> <li>Summarizes current knowledge about best practices in the field, the reality of corruption in Australia, and the reform agenda that has driven major change and experimentation</li> <li>Presents current integrity strategies in place in Australia, covering the rationales, evidence of effectiveness, and difficulties</li> <li>Explores undercover stings, drug and alcohol testing, mediation of complaints, ethics training, and regulating the police use of force</li> </ul> Organized logically for ease of navigation, each chapter contains an "Emerging Issues" section, highlighting some of the more promising and/or innovative integrity strategies as well as looming concerns and ethical issues. The book concludes with an overall evaluation of the data presented in the body of the book, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the Australian system and the implications for adoption of these strategies in other police departments around the world.

Politics & Social Sciences

Prenzler, Tim

Social Sciences

Children Are People Too: A Parent Guide to Younger Children's Behaviour

Small Poppies

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