Guidance of Young Children, 10th edition

For courses in guidance/management of young children.

Promote positive child guidance and management strategies

Guidance of Young Children speaks in a conversational style that's solidly grounded in child development theory and research. The text provides a clear understanding of childhood development and helps readers develop the skills to provide young children with positive and developmentally appropriate guidance.

The 10th Edition enhances its focus on positive guiding strategies with new information about the authoritative caregiving style, an emphasis on encouragement over praise, additional information about the high rate of childcare and preschool expulsions and more.

Hallmark features of this title

• Examples of three teachers in different phases of early childhood education appear throughout the text and show how real teachers have dealt with guidance problems in actual classrooms.
• The functional behavioral assessment (FBA) process helps readers learn to collect data to effectively deal with six specific challenging behaviors (Ch. 11).
• Chapter-opening Case Studies focus on children and teachers from infant-toddler, preschool and primary classrooms to help readers visualize the major points in each chapter.
• Analyze Case Studies features help students apply newly acquired knowledge from the chapter to the chapter-opening case study.
• Apply Your Knowledge end-of-chapter features focus on the application level in the cognitive domain.

New and updated features of this title

• NEW: A “work with what you have” classroom set-up scenario helps students understand how to apply the principles they have learned, even when the conditions are not ideal (Ch. 4).
• UPDATED: Additional information about the high rate of childcare and preschool expulsions informs pre-service teachers about this ongoing issue and alerts them to factors that might contribute to solving the problem (Ch. 8).
• UPDATED: Guidance on finding a caregiving style throughout the text helps preservice teachers recognize how to adopt a positive, authoritative way of caring for children.
• UPDATED: A discussion of the hot topic of “encouragement vs. praise” clarifies the differences between the 2 and explains how to use encouragement effectively (Ch. 2).
• UPDATED: A refined discussion of bullying clarifies the distinction between the normal instrumental aggression of young children with real bullying (Ch. 10).
• UPDATED: NAEYC Standards and Key Elements are included at the start of each chapter so that students can connect these standards to practice.