Guidance Nursery School Author:Evelyn Goodenough Pitcher, Louise Bates Ames Drawing on forty consecutive years of nursery school teaching, this book will be an invaluable tool for the many nursery school teachers around the country, as well as for all parents of preschool children. This is a field in which material is extremely sparse, and yet where scientific guidance is of utmost importance. Will help both teachers ... more »and parents to appreciate the complexity and immaturity of the nursery school child at this most vital stage in his development. In patient detail the book presents the steps by which a skilled, sympathetic, and understanding nursery school teacher guides the preschooler to increasingly high levels of maturity in his behavior. The material is presented from the developmental point of view: All teching techniques and school routines are described in terms of each child's need, as determined by his age level and by his own individuality. For parents who may be new to this approach, as well as for beginning teachers, the personality characteristics of each preschool age level are given in detail and related to the different constitutional types. In addition, the authors give a detailed consideration to the qualities necessary in a effective nursery school teacher and to the tasks and training of teachers. Among topics covered are: How to help a child adjust to school when he is reluctant to leave his mother, How to handle a child and get him to enjoy the daily school routines, The extent to which a nursery shcool can provide for the needs of atypical children, How parent and teacher can collaborate to lead a child to a fuller, happier life at home and school. The back of the book contains valuable reference lists of books about nursery school etc...« less