The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
-Carl Jung
In the Exchange book,
Staff Challenges: Practical Ideas for Recruiting, Training, and Supervising Early Childhood Employees, Patricia Berl proposes (in part) these "Principles in Working with Emergent Teachers"....
- Focus discussions on teachers' understandings of situations �" their ideas, concepts, and assumptions about how children learn, what works and doesn't, what they expect of themselves, what others expect of them, their roles and responsibilities.
- Strengthen opportunities for developing desirable dispositions, focusing on behaviors that are complimentary to effective teaching, such as openness to children's ideas and feelings, inventiveness, resourcefulness, patience, and enthusiasm.
- Along with the attention to acquiring new skills, also provide opportunities to practice and refine already existing skills, that enable new teachers to apply developing competencies in a more reliable, consistent, or confident manner.
- Build upon long-term relationships with emerging teachers and curtail one's own eagerness to be helpful or to intervene in an effort to establish one's own credibility or expertise.
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Ventura, CA, United States
When I clicked the links to the information on this book all I saw was "Product not found." Very disappointing as the book sounded interesting.
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