Table of Contents

1. Patience or Understanding? 2. Misbehavior or Mistaken Behavior? 3. Beyond Discipline to Guidance 4. The Guidance Premise: Family-Teacher Partnerships 5. Using Guidance to Build an Encouraging Classroom: Beyond Time Out 6. Using Guidance to Maintain an Encouraging Classroom: Four Intervention Alternatives 7. Sustaining the Encouraging Classroom: Class Meetings 8. Guidance with Boys in Early Childhood Classrooms 9. Societal Violence and Guidance: Liberation Teaching 10. Strong Needs Mistaken Behavior: Strategies for Crisis Management and Comprehensive Guidance 11. Using the Booklet, �Developmentally Appropriate Guidance,� as a Training Tool

About the Author

Dan Gartrell (Ph.D., University of North Dakota) is Professor of Early Childhood and Elementary Education and Director of the Child Development Training Program at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. As a teacher, CDA trainer, and student teaching supervisor, Dr. Gartrell has been working with students in early childhood for more than 30 years. His articles have been published in Young Children and the Journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). In addition, he has been a presenter at more than 200 workshops, training sessions, and keynote sessions on guidance in early childhood education in eight states, Germany, and Mexico.

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1. Patience or Understanding? 2. Misbehavior or Mistaken Behavior? 3. Beyond Discipline to Guidance 4. The Guidance Premise: Family-Teacher Partnerships 5. Using Guidance to Build an Encouraging Classroom: Beyond Time Out 6. Using Guidance to Maintain an Encouraging Classroom: Four Intervention Alternatives 7. Sustaining the Encouraging Classroom: Class Meetings 8. Guidance with Boys in Early Childhood Classrooms 9. Societal Violence and Guidance: Liberation Teaching 10. Strong Needs Mistaken Behavior: Strategies for Crisis Management and Comprehensive Guidance 11. Using the Booklet, "Developmentally Appropriate Guidance," as a Training Tool