Learning Behaviors

Book excerpt: Best-selling author and qualified early years teacher Sue Cowley looks at the way that behavior develops during the earliest years of a child's life, exploring how babies and young children learn behaviors and move from co-regulation to self-regulation. Learning Behaviors gives practical advice about how to support children in learning all aspects of positive behavior while they are in your daycare, preschool or kindergarten. Sue explores the different behaviors that children need to learn and develop in order to be happy and successful learners in their future school careers and beyond. From learning how to share to learning how to pay attention; from learning how to be responsible to learning how to be kind - this book covers all these learning behaviors and much more. This is a book full of practical strategies, realistic suggestions and down-to-earth advice. Sue offers a step-by-step guide to getting behavior right, and a range of case studies to help you understand how the approaches work in practice.