Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroductionPart One: Teaching and the Environment Positioning equipment and materials
Collecting
Scheduling
Part Two: General Teaching TechniquesDemonstrating
Describing
Encouraging, praising and helping
Facilitating
Feedback
Grouping
Listening
Modelling
Positioning people
Questioning
Reading
Recalling
Singing
Suggesting
Telling and instructing
Part Three: Specialist Teaching TechniquesCo-constructing
Community building
Decolonising
Deconstructing
Democratising
Documenting
Empowering
Philosophising
Problem-solving
Reinforcing
Scaffolding
Task analysis
Part Four: Educational Philosophies, Goals and Teaching TechniquesBuilding a strategic approach to teaching techniques

About the Author

Glenda Mac Naughton is Associate Professor in the Department of Learning and Educational Development at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is author and co-author of a number of books including Doing Early Childhood Research (Allen & Unwin / Open University Press, 2001) and Doing Action Research in Early Childhood Studies (Open University Press, 2008).

Gillian Williams is an early childhood consultant working in Australia.