Hands on, Minds on

How Executive Function, Motor, and Spatial Skills Foster School Readiness

Claire E. Cameron, Sharon Ritchie (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2018
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-5909-7 (ISBN)

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Describes the importance of children's foundational cognitive skills for academic achievement in literacy and mathematics, as well as their connections with other areas of school readiness, including physical health and social and emotional development. The book also examines the growing evidence in favour of guided object play.

Hands On, Minds On describes the importance of children’s foundational cognitive skills for academic achievement in literacy and mathematics, as well as their connections with other areas of school readiness, including physical health and social and emotional development. It also examines the growing evidence in favor of guided object play.

Claire E. Cameron is associate professor in the Department of Learning and Instruction at the University at Buffalo. She directs the Early Childhood and Childhood programs for teachers seeking certification to teach in New York State, and for researchers seeking a doctorate with a preschool or elementary focus. She is an expert in the development and assessment of foundational cognitive skills in early childhood and author of the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders (HTKS) behavioral assessment and the Motor Skills Rating Scale (MSRS) teacher-report questionnaire. Cameron earned her PhD in 2007 from the University of Michigan’s Combined Program in Education and Psychology in Ann Arbor. She was an Institute for Education Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow from 2007 to 2009 at the University of Virginia’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching & Learning (CASTL), where she stayed on as research scientist until moving to Buffalo in 2015. She is a passionate proponent of translating research for public audiences and serves on the advisory board for the University of Connecticut’s PK–3 Leadership Program. Learn more about Cameron’s work at claireelizabethcameron.com.

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 228 mm
Gewicht	275 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Pädagogische Psychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
ISBN-10	0-8077-5909-0 / 0807759090
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-5909-7 / 9780807759097
Zustand	Neuware