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A Survival Guide for the Preschool Teacher

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I train high school students to work with preschoolers. This is the best book I have seen in my 23 years of teaching. It is a straight forward resource that has everything my students need to know. It is chockful of ideas of manipulatives that can be made which is a real money saver. I order it each year for my students and I held my breath as I checked to see if you still carried it. I don't know what I would do if I could not get it. I assign chapters for my students to read and then have developed questions for them to answer. I certainly do rely on it to teach my students. I have shared it with other vocational early childhood education job training instructors and they feel the same way I do. Thank you,Jean. You are a lifesaver. I know when my students graduate they have a resource that they will use for many years to come.

I borrowed this book from a fellow teacher when I began teaching preschool and just had to buy a copy of my own. It is the best resource for the preschool classroom I have ever read. It is straight-forward and helps with everything from projects to classroom setup and management.

This is a wonderful, comprehensive guide to working with young children. All aspects of a successful, pre-school or kindergarten program are covered in this book. This is a must-have resource for beginning early childhood teachers.

I found this book to be a wonderful guide for my first year of teaching pre-K. The book is well organized into very pertinent, practical chapters full of great, easy-to-do ideas and strategies for addressing the needs of young students. I shared this book with a vetran teacher who was equally impressed with the content. It is a great value and a quick, enjoyable, informative read.

I am about to start teaching in a few weeks and this book is a LIFESAVER!! It gives me endless pointers on being a great preschool teacher. Since I graduated from college two years I needed a bit of a refresher course to prepare me and this book was the ticket. I will definitely refer to it many, many times during my course of teaching while using these methods and passing them on to my fellow teachers.

Even though the book does not present a particularly aesthetically pleasing appearance, this book spills over with ideas that I never thought about(like the "Letter Puppets"). Parts of my long range plan sprang directly from this book. Dr. Feldman continues to inspire my teaching.

This book is an excellent source of information including learning center ideas, music and movement, child development stages, and developmentally appropriate practices, all in one book for preschool, pre-kindergarten and kindergarten teachers. I have attended several Dr. Jean conferences and this book reflects her expertise and enthusiasm for helping teachers teach children.

I just bought this book and I couldn't put it down. Feldman's book is very helpful for someone who works in a kindergarten. The book is detailed, organized, well-structured. I recommend this book to all future preschool teachers!

As a preschool teacher for the past ten years, I have purchased lots of books that gather dust in the corner but do little to advance my goal of fresh new ideas for the classroom. This book is jam packed with stuff from organization, to songs, letters to parents, easy writing tools. It is a SURVIVAL KIT for sure. This one does not get loaned out to fellow teachers. I have to keep it in my sights!

I bought this book looking for ideas of activities and games and art projects, and boy did I get my money's worth! This book must have thousands of ideas of things to do with preschool aged children, most of them very easy for a parent to pull off too (you don't need a whole lot of fancy equipment or expensive materials, and almost everything can be modified to do with just one or two children, instead of a whole classroom).

The book is arranged thematically, with a few chapters at the beginning and the end about the classroom, behavior issues, dealing with parents, etc. I actually felt that this stuff was pretty useful as a parent, too. The bulk of the book, though, is just ideas ideas, ideas.

I definitely recommend this book if you are a parent looking for ideas of games and activities. I'm not a preschool teacher, but if I were I think I'd probably be using the ideas in this book every day.