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Develop strategies for helping children become creative problem solvers
Whether it’s building a rocket, learning to take turns, or forgetting a teaching material at home, both children and adults learn more from our mistakes than from our successes. Help children find solutions and learn to problem solve using teachable moments. Young children encounter problems, mistakes, and accidents that challenge them daily. Helping children conquer everyday frustrations fosters the creativity, critical thinking, and resilience that enables children to thrive in a formidable world. The ultimate guide to thinking on your feet, Problem Solving with Young Children will coach early childhood teachers, child care providers, and parents to develop a range of strategies to help young children become creative problem solvers, including:Featuring anecdotes and advice, and incorporating research on how children learn, emergent curriculum methods, problem-based learning, developmentally appropriate practices, and responsive pedagogies, this book will help you lead children through meaningful problem-solving processes and prepare tomorrow’s critical thinkers.
Facing moments of conflict, misunderstanding, and challenge are part of the human experience we all share. Through our work with children, Ann Gadzikowski reminds us that we have inner reservoirs of creativity, courage, and connection to handle the moments that surprise us, moments when we feel less certain and skilled. The teacher becomes the learner and the learner becomes the teacher. Problem Solving with Children helps educators embrace difficult moments with curiosity, humor, and grace.
—Cori Berg, Director, Christ Lutheran Child Development Center, Dallas
Ann provides new and tenured teachers heirloom seeds of wisdom with pH balanced approaches to problem solving with young children. Her clear explanations and accessible examples are to be practiced as one may do after visiting a master gardener's tool shed, "Ah-ha! Now, this is useful!"
—Meredith Dodd, Lead Teacher, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
Chapter 1
Looking for the Light in Broken Places
Chapter 2
Thinking and Learning
Chapter 3
The Brave Teacher
Chapter 4
Engaging in Inquiry
Chapter 5
Solving Problems Day by Day
Chapter 6
Making Friends and Getting Along
Chapter 7
Communicating to Solve Problems
Chapter 8
Playing with Problems
Chapter 9
Measuring Growth
Chapter 10
Celebrating Problems