Friendly Schools Plus: Early Childhood - Softcover

Cross, Donna; Thompson, Shane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936763141 ISBN 13: 9781936763146

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2014

Synopsis

Discover an evidence-based approach to reduce bullying and foster a supportive school environment for students ages 6-8. The authors explore the role students emotional and social development play in their academic success and emphasize the importance of positive peer groups and parent involvement. You'll acquire teaching and learning resources to support student development and create and sustain a positive school culture.

Benefits

- Develop a safe school environment that supports learning and promotes healthy social skills among students.

- Explore the relationship between school culture and students learning and health.

- Discover strategies to help bullied students and discourage bullying.

- Implement policies that foster positive teacher-student relationships.

- Access resources to facilitate and strengthen classroom activities and practices.

About this title

About the Author:

Donna Cross is a professor at the School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Science, and the director of the Child Health Promotion Research Centre at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. She has an international profile in school health promotion intervention research. Her most significant research relates to her work on aggression and bullying among young people in Australia. Donna has also been involved in youth-based research throughout the United States, South Africa, Canada, Eastern Europe, Japan, and Israel, with organizations including the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the American Health Foundation.

Shane Thompson obtained her diploma in Teaching from Kuring-gai College in Sydney and later completed a bachelor of education through Deakin University, Victoria.

She has held teaching positions in both primary and secondary schools in NSW, Victoria, and Western Australia as well as international schools in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. Her teaching interest has always been in the special education area.

From 2002 to 2006, she was owner of Unicom Education, an Australia-wide supplier of resources for children and adults with learning differences. Following the sale of the Unicom Education business to the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), Shane assisted ACER in setting up their Perth office and distribution network and led the ACER Press operation in Western Australia. Her work also included marketing and training users in the ECU Child Health Promotion Research Centres resource Friendly Schools and Families.

In 2009, Shane joined the Child Health Promotion Research Centre as senior research manager. She has coordinated the development and commercialization of Friendly Schools Plus in addition to being a coauthor and is an accredited trainer. Shane continues to work within the Child Health Promotion Research Centre bringing a practical focus to various projects she is involved in.

Shane also sits on the board of the Dyslexia-SPELD Foundation of WA.

Erin Erceg is currently working as the lead trainer for the Friendly Schools Plus initiative with Hawker Brownlow Professional Learning Solutions. Having spent twelve years with the Child Health Promotion Research Centre at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, Erin s most significant roles relate to her work on research around aggression and bullying among young people. Other areas of research in which Erin has been involved include capacity building for interventions in schools, secondary school transition factors, cyberbullying and its effects, reducing the effects of bullying among Aboriginal children, children s connectedness factors and mental health, building school capacity to engage parents and increase their connectedness to the whole school environment, and self-esteem and resilience of young people.

Previous to this work Erin has worked as a teacher in both primary and secondary school classes for thirteen years, as a development officer for rural health and wellbeing programs, and as a consultant with community builders and suicide prevention.

Erin is one of the lead authors of the Friendly Schools Plus resources and has been directly involved in the research supporting this initiative since it began in 1999. She has also been the lead trainer for the Friendly Schools research projects throughout this time and has worked extensively with primary and secondary schools.

About this edition

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1936763141
• ISBN 13: 9781936763146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 251