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At the heart of every transition lies change, and change can be challenging for children and adults alike. Transitions require learning how to shift focus, pay attention, and change activities (and often moods) quickly and easily. By helping young children become comfortable with transitions in school, you support their growing brains and help prepare them for changes throughout their lives.
In the preschool or kindergarten classroom, transitions are opportunities for children to practice handling change. This guide presents preschool and kindergarten teachers with strategies for making transitions fun and helping students self-regulate when they experience change. Topics include:
- Teacher self-reflection
- Transition strategies throughout the day
- Guidelines for transitions
- Using transitions to manage behavior
- Managing transitions by age group (3-4, 4-5, 5-6)
- Sample transition plans
- Using transitions as micro-lessons to build SEL, language, math, motor, and creative and critical thinking skills
- Communication with families
Ellen Booth Church began as a pre-k and kindergarten teacher in the laboratory school at the State University of New York and later became an assistant professor. Recently, she has been an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University. In the broader early childhood field, she was the author of numerous articles for Scholastic Early Childhood Today and Parent and Child magazines for over 20 years. She was one of the developers for Clifford the Big Red Dog PBS show. Ms. Church is currently an author of Getting to the Heart of Learning and Nurturing Next Generation Innovators for Gryphon House Publishing. For the last 12 years, she has mentored the Kinderpillar preschools in India and Nepal and is a popular international keynote speaker at conferences worldwide.
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