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Teaching Children Self-Esteem
A simple but comprehensive presentation of the creative learning process with emphasis on it's implementation using concrete examples from the author's experience as a teacher. Each chapter ends with a series of questions and exercises that, when completed, allows the reader to experience the concepts presented.The twelve chapters are:

1) The Need for Creative Behavior in After-School Day Care
2) Understanding Creative Behavior
3) Preparing a Safe Physical Enviroment
4) Limits and Consequences
5) Heckles, Put-Downs and Other Facts of Life
6) Mistakes: Tools for Learning
7) Integration
8) Planning the Curriculum
9) Preparing for Transitions
100 Team Teaching
11) Communicating with Parents
12) Conclusion ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Consumer Affairs, published by American Council on Consumer Interests on December 22, 1990. The length of the article is 3544 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The child care choice of parents has been a prime item of policy discussion at all levels of government in recent years. Researchers have responded by examining aspects of cost and quality of care and their implications for the family. One area in which the research effort is in its early stage is after-school child care. This paper presents an attempt to implement a test of a model of child care choice, adapted to after-school care. The results of the implementation are reported and recommendations made for the development of a larger-scale data base. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Citation Details
Title: Cost and quality factors in parents' choice of after-school child care.
Author: Richard Widdows
Publication: Journal of Consumer Affairs (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 1990
Publisher: American Council on Consumer Interests
Volume: v24Issue: n2Page: p381(11)

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This is one book in a three book series promoting the participation of college students in after-school programs as a part of the curriculum. All students involved in after-school programs, no matter what their age, benefit from college-student participation. This series outlines the roles of program administrators, college faculty, and college students in implementing mutually beneficial partnerships and establishing models for collaboration between higher education and after-school programs. If you are already using college students in your program, this guide will provide ideas that will strengthen and develop your program. If you are not currently using college students, this guide will provide information about ways in which you can establish partnerships with local colleges and universities to involve college students effectively in your program through service learning opportunities including fieldwork, internships or pre-professional work and work-study. ... Read more

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This guide shows college faculty how they can make the participation of college students in after-school and school-age care programs a part of their curriculum. Topics covered are discovering the benefits of participating in after-school programs, exploring service-learning, establishing a course component for college students, and supporting college students working in after-school programs. College models of after-school programs are also included. The appendixes provide forms and standards for those working in after-school programs and a sample syllabus. An extensive list of references and Web sites also appears. ... Read more

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Finding the right after school program for a child or teen with a disability or other special need has finally been made much easier with this publication, containing more than 450 out-of-school-time programs, from tutoring, educational remediation, homework help, though sports, the arts, dance, drama, music, to travel, excursions, parks, respite and child care. Entries include contact information, ages, population served, program capacity, staff/child ratio, program hours and days, fees, transportation options, medication administration and a description of services. Indexed by service, disability, town/borough and zip code for quick and easy searching. ... Read more

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This professional development text aims to help directors and staff to create healthier learning environments for children and youth in after-school programs. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

great resource
I haven't had a lot of time to pour over this yet, but it seems like it will be a great resource. It came highly recommended to me. I like that you can pick and choose the elements that are the most crucial to your program to start with.

Bring Your Self To Work
I will definetly incorporate it for my after-school staff trainings

What An Eye Opener
When I first heard about the Bringing Yourself to Work project I thought - "This is amazing!Emotional intelligence is such an important component of success for school-age staff and school-age programs.This is just what the field needs!".

Then I discovered that Michelle and Pat had written a book on the subject.I quickly ordered one and once I started reading it I couldn't put it down.The stories about the interactions that staff has with children are so genuine and the steps to reaching a better understanding of yourself and your workgroup are so easy to comprehend that it makes you want to call a staff meeting to get started right away!

The impact of an emotionally intelligent self and staff cannot be overstated and The Model for Change provides step-by-step instructions and encouragement that help the reader connect to the material in a meaningful way.It is motivational and inspirational to realize that the "soft skills" that are not so readily recognized as indicators of academic success but are indicators of life success can be developed and enhanced in everyone.

I heartily recommend this book particularly for folks in the fields of education, child care, school-age care, or youth development.However, the truth is that any reader can benefit from the principles and exercises included in this book. ... Read more

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Increasing numbers of children are participating in after-school programs, and with more federal and state funding the number of such programs is likely to grow. This growth has been occurring, however, with little guidance as to what program features or practices might be most helpful in nurturing the educational achievement, emotional development, and health of the children involved.This book helps fill that need for guidance by offering a set of 18 model practices against which after-school programs can be evaluated. The authors provide ways to score adherence to the criteria, from "excellent" to "inadequate"; survey forms for collecting the information to assign these grades; and an illustrative application of their approach to a set of real-world after-school programs. ... Read more

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What you need to know
This is a great book for anyone involved with childcare.It is a concise review with excellent guidelines and criteria.It thoroughly integrates a dauntingly scattered literature and as it does, it develops a useful and practical set of standards for childcare that practitioners, funders, evaluators, and yes even parents will appreciate.Very readable and accessible. ... Read more