A Teacher's Bag of Tricks: Staying Person-to-Person in the World of Children

by Greg Nelson

Overview

Here is the tale of an eager young educator, freshly trained in Montessori theory and practice, learning how to survive in a bustling classroom of 3-6 year olds. Theory no longer carried the day; he had to learn how to achieve his goals in an environment that had as a core principle children'a right to guide their own learning.

With the help of wise and talented mentors, he learned how to do so, and started jotting down the "tricks" he mastered along the way.

That journey began almost 50 years ago, and that young man became a college professor preparing the next generation of early childhood educators and an advocate for educational reform in his state.

With the aid of hyperlinks between the Table of Contents, individual tricks, and cross-referencing footnotes, Dr. Nelson here shares with you what he discovered while living in the world of children.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163690343
Publisher:	Greg Nelson
Publication date:	10/23/2019
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	293,575
File size:	347 KB

About the Author

Greg Nelson has devoted most of the past half-century to early childhood education – first as a lead teacher; later as school owner, program director, curriculum designer, and workshop presenter; eventually as a college professor preparing preK-grade 2 public-school teachers; and finally by launching a birth-5 bachelor’s degree program to help the private sector workforce attain professional skills as educators.

Dr. Nelson helped draft his state’s early childhood learning standards; helped develop articulation agreements between his state’s 2-year and 4-year early-childhood preparation programs; collaborated with public-school teachers to create State model curriculum units for early-childhood math and science, and authored two books on how to implement a world-class early childhood mathematics curriculum.

For many years, he served on the Steering Committee of his local NAEYC affiliate, was a member of the advisory to his state’s Department of Early Education and Care, and led his state’s higher ed. Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators.

Greg is the father of three grown children. He currently resides with his wife in Raynham, Massachusetts.

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