Teacher Training Books

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.

I will definetly incorporate it for my after-school staff trainings

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.

This book is the best resource on outcome based teaching and learning. The new edition is even better!

An excellent resource for teachers in territary institutions who have a passion for teaching for quality. It is a good resource for understand and implementing the outcomes based teaching and learning approach, which is helping students engage in deep learning approach. The chapters are well laid out in a simple and systematic manner.

So many introductory early childhood education books exist for college classes! It reminds me of a excellent year for movie-actors: so many excellent Oscar-worthy performances that would get nominated/win in a less competitive year get shut out of the academy awards that categories face much controversy.

In the same way, this "Oscar-worthy" textbook just gets squeezed out of a rowboat by three other superweights: J.A. Brewer's INTRODUCTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, Stephenie Feeney's WHO AM I IN THE LIVES OF CHILDREN?, and G.S. Morrison's FUNDAMENTALS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION.

Here's how good it is: if the three, aboved-named texts did not exist, Hendrick/Weissman's book would either sit near or at the top of the introductory ECE textbook mountain. It gets everything right in DAP, history, theory, parent involvement, infancy/toddlerhood, PreK/K, primary school grades, and special needs. It reads well AND presents thorough, APA-styled research citations.

Only one drawback: three other texts do what this one does...only better.

Try those other three texts first. If those do not suffice, then this is the one. Two thumps up!

This book is okay. The written simulation portion gives you a descent idea of what the test will be like. The multiple choice questions are less practical in preperation for the exam. This book has a lot of questions focused on nutrition, which is not a large focus at all on the NATA-BOC. I would not recommend purchusing this book.

Please save your money and don't purchase this review book. After doing several of the practice questions I began to realize that many of the answers in the answer guide were wrong. Some of the answers also blatantly contradicted themselves. I called the publisher to bring this to their attention and they did nothing about it. How can a person study for this caliber exam when the study material is not accurate? Don't buy this book!

This book is great for the CD-ROM that comes with it to study for the Written portion of the Exam. On the other hand I don't think it does a very good job explaining the Practical, it may be out of date because they changed the format a little. The practice test for the Written Sim is to easy compared to the real one that you will take. Overall it is O.K., but maybe out of date even though it is only a few years old.