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Teacher's Choice Award for Preschool 2018 Winner
Children must learn to pick themselves up, brush themselves off, and bounce back. How do you allow for the physicality required to build resilience why you are tasked with children's safety? This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including families in the process, and keeping safety front-of-mind.
- Examine common safety concerns and how to address and prepare for them
- Learn how to work with families and build a trusting relationship around children's physical development
- Consider legal concerns regarding licensing and liability
- Discover practical approaches to working with children to find their appropriate level of physical risk-taking and how to respond to a child's risky behavior
Jarrod Green is an early childhood educator with over a decade of experience in early childhood education. His teaching practice centers around an emergent, project-based approach to curriculum, with an emphasis on learning through play, developing relationships with communities, and building self-regulation and resilience. Green also presents at many professional conferences, including NAEYC's Professional Development Institute.
“This guide provides the tools and strategies for creating a culture of resilience, including families in the process, and keeping safety in mind.” —Learning Magazine
"This book is a joyful, playful exploration of the very nature of young children emphasizing their need to run and jump and play and take risks and try things out and the ways that adults can encourage physical play, allow for risk-taking, and still provide a safe, nurturing environment." —Gaye Gronlund, author of Individualized Child-Focused Curriculum
"An exceptional resource for teachers everywhere who are struggling with the question of how much physical risk to allow or promote in their programs, this book will go a long way toward restoring developmental common sense to our views on children's needs for risk, physical challenge, and autonomy in their play to build, in Jarrod's words, a 'culture of resilience.' This is a timely and important book." —Todd Wanerman, author of From Handprints to Hypotheses and Including One, Including All
"What a courageous and inspiring book! Jarrod Green tackles the sometimes confounding and controversial issues for teachers around physical play and the constant decisions that they have to make about what is safe and what is appropriate, essential risk. Teachers help create a childhood for each child and Green guides teachers as they navigate this often neglected area of curriculum. Green makes a compelling case for not only the role of physical activity in building resilience but how it can enhance and expand children's self-esteem. All teachers will find this book thought provoking and supportive and their students will greatly benefit from having teachers who better understand their physical needs." —Belann Giaretto, Executive Director of Pacific Primary
"I'm OK! should be in any collection strong in child development titles . . . This book provides teachers with specifics on assessing risk and assigning challenging, growth-inducing play and is based on the author's decade-plus experience building resilience concepts into activities." —Midwest Book Review, The Education Shelf
Chapter 2: Safety and Risk
Chapter 3: Working with Children
Chapter 4: Working with Families
Chapter 5: Working with Teachers
Chapter 6: Licensing and Liability
Chapter 7: Closing Reflections
Appendix: Further Reading and Resources