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Effective educators connect their students to new concepts through meaningful and impactful interactions. This book gives pre-school teachers new strategies for updating interactions and vitalizing lessons by recognising students as complete emotional, social and cognitive human beings. In short, it demonstrates how considering the whole child can help teachers and students expand their thinking about themselves and the world.

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Piece by piece, Cindy Terebush explains the natural development of the child found within the realities of the classroom. To 'teach the whole preschooler' you have to celebrate what their actions are telling you and confront your own expectations to effectively nurture today's young learners.--Angela Torres, Director, Easterseals Bronx Child Development Center Wow! Cindy Terebush has given an invaluable gift to Early Childhood educators and their parents: an intelligent, practical, research- and experience-based, readable, wise, and witty guide to helping our children grow, learn, and explore. The author delves into such topics as expectations, creativity, play, routines, mindulness; she adeptly discusses social-emotional development, self-expression, and cognition. Her chapter summaries and recommendations for communicating with parents are especially brilliant and useful. My recommendation? Read this book, then go play with your children--as a more compassionate, wiser, and more capable educator than you were before.--Helene Frieder Lockspeiser, MA, Early Childhood Educator for 40 years The book is not just another presentation of essential materials for caring for and educating young children, rather it is almost like attending a professional development session with Terebush or being in the classroom with her where you can hear her discussing the issues that are important to our field in a personal and conversational manner. Her writing style engages the reader and allows them to see ideas in a new way as well as analyze the ideas for use in their own classroom.--Amanda Discala, EdM, Child Development Center Director, President, NJAEYC Cindy Terebush shares her health of knowledge regarding early childhood education and makes a strong case for thinking deeply about the 'why' for the activities we organize for young children. . . . As an added bonus, the end of each chapter includes suggestions for discussions for families, a feature that is very useful for early childhood educators.

Piece by piece, Cindy Terebush explains the natural development of the child found within the realities of the classroom. To 'teach the whole preschooler' you have to celebrate what their actions are telling you and confront your own expectations to effectively nurture today's young learners.--Angela Torres, Director, Easterseals Bronx Child Development Center Wow! Cindy Terebush has given an invaluable gift to Early Childhood educators and their parents: an intelligent, practical, research- and experience-based, readable, wise, and witty guide to helping our children grow, learn, and explore. The author delves into such topics as expectations, creativity, play, routines, mindulness; she adeptly discusses social-emotional development, self-expression, and cognition. Her chapter summaries and recommendations for communicating with parents are especially brilliant and useful. My recommendation? Read this book, then go play with your children--as a more compassionate, wiser, and more capable educator than you were before.--Helene Frieder Lockspeiser, MA, Early Childhood Educator for 40 years The book is not just another presentation of essential materials for caring for and educating young children, rather it is almost like attending a professional development session with Terebush or being in the classroom with her where you can hear her discussing the issues that are important to our field in a personal and conversational manner. Her writing style engages the reader and allows them to see ideas in a new way as well as analyze the ideas for use in their own classroom.--Amanda Discala, EdM, Child Development Center Director, President, NJAEYC

Cindy Terebush shares her wealth of knowledge regarding early childhood education and makes a strong case for thinking deeply about the 'why' for the activities we organize for young children. . . . As an added bonus, the end of each chapter includes suggestions for discussions for families, a feature that is very useful for early childhood educators.-- Education Review Piece by piece, Cindy Terebush explains the natural development of the child found within the realities of the classroom. To 'teach the whole preschooler' you have to celebrate what their actions are telling you and confront your own expectations to effectively nurture today's young learners.--Angela Torres, Director, Easterseals Bronx Child Development Center The book is not just another presentation of essential materials for caring for and educating young children, rather it is almost like attending a professional development session with Terebush or being in the classroom with her where you can hear her discussing the issues that are important to our field in a personal and conversational manner. Her writing style engages the reader and allows them to see ideas in a new way as well as analyze the ideas for use in their own classroom.--Amanda Discala, EdM, Child Development Center Director, President, NJAEYC Wow! Cindy Terebush has given an invaluable gift to Early Childhood educators and their parents: an intelligent, practical, research- and experience-based, readable, wise, and witty guide to helping our children grow, learn, and explore. The author delves into such topics as expectations, creativity, play, routines, mindulness; she adeptly discusses social-emotional development, self-expression, and cognition. Her chapter summaries and recommendations for communicating with parents are especially brilliant and useful. My recommendation? Read this book, then go play with your children--as a more compassionate, wiser, and more capable educator than you were before.--Helene Frieder Lockspeiser, MA, Early Childhood Educator for 40 years

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Cindy Terebush has worked with children for nearly 20 years. She has extensive experience teaching, directing, and consulting in early childhood and school age programs. She is a sought-after workshop facilitator, keynote speaker, and professional development provider for early childhood professionals and parent groups.

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