Living Like a Child: Learn, Live, and Teach Creatively - Softcover

Feldman, Enrique C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1605540331 ISBN 13: 9781605540337

Publisher: Redleaf Press, 2011

Synopsis

With a call to live like a child and teach with more meaning, this book explores holistic- and arts-based techniques that support and enhance children€™s academic and social-emotional development. It encourages you to teach and connect with children in ways that are organic, trusting, and empowering.Living Like a Child is divided into three sections, which are filled with stories, techniques, and support to help you learn, live, and teach creatively:Master Teaching Principles facilitates your growth as a learner and leader.Life Learning Techniques contains artistic, play-based practices that enhance children€™s—and your own—learning, growth, and development. This section includes activities that incorporate music, affirmation, breathing, visualization, movement, and dramatic delivery. Popular, proven, and research-based, these techniques help children develop creativity and critical-thinking skills.Measurable and Im

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About the Author

Enrique Feldman: Enrique "Hank" Feldman is a two-time Grammy-nominated composer and artist. He is president and director of education for the non-profit Fostering Arts-Mind Education (FAME) Foundation, the director of Evolved Learning Conferences, and a former professor of music and education. Enrique is a regular presenter at National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) conferences and has produced and performed on seven compact disk recordings.

Review

Enrique is a role model in his book, Living Like A Child. He has spent most of his life learning, living, and teaching creatively! Now, lucky reader, you will be able to enjoy his natural, accessible, and delightful ideas, experiences, and suggestions. Positive and inspirational books like this are needed today more than ever!
-Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld, Educator, national consultant, and author of Celebrating Young Children and Their Teachers, Teaching by Heart, and Creative Experiences for Young Children

Who better to teach about how a child lives and grows than the child himself? In Living Like a Child, Enrique C. Feldman offers parents, educators, and caregivers the opportunity to look at life from the perspective of a young child. This book guides the journey to help children reach their full potential through learning techniques, breathing and relaxation exercises, music ideas, and other activities. Feldman inspires adults to connect with children and help them reach their full learning potential.

• Enrique "Hank" Feldman, a Grammy-nominated composer and artist, is president and director of the nonprofit Fostering Arts-Mind Education Foundation. A former professor of music and education, he has produced and performed on several albums.

The Perseus Books Group Foreign Rights Guide Autumn 2011

LIVING LIKE A CHILD: LEARN, LIVE AND TEACH CREATIVELY offers master ideas for teachers who want to learn how to encourage kids in their childlike love of learning new things. Early childhood education collections will welcome an exploration of arts-based, holistic teaching options that help support a child's overall academic and social development. The title pairs techniques with measurable data and packs in play-based practices that have proven most effective. Any education holding will welcome this!

MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW

The simplicity and serenity of childhood is not lost just because you can buy a beer. "Living Like a Child: Learn, Live, and Teach Creatively" is a guide to understand the childhood mind even when one is decades removed from their own childhood. To teach these children, one must understand how their mind works, and use that knowledge to help them learn more effectively and nurture that love of learning which should never die. For any teacher of young children, "Living Like a Child" is very much worth considering.

The following review was featured in the October 2011 issue of "California Bookwatch."

About this edition

• Publisher: Redleaf Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1605540331
• ISBN 13: 9781605540337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200