*Latest Release*
Gifted children: meeting their needs
(2008, Small Poppies, Adelaide)

This live recording describes the signs of giftedness and examines how to identify intellectual giftedness. It then examines the emotional and social needs of gifted learners and how to meet these. The third section focuses on meeting the children’s learning needs, including gifted-learning disabled students, and collaboration between parents and teachers in schools. Click here to download the supporting booklet to the DVD resource.

                                                                                        DVD Only  AU$45

Children are people too: a parent’s guide to young children’s behaviour
(2006, 4th edition, East Street Publications, Adelaide)

This book is suited to parents whose children are aged under 8 years, and can be a useful inclusion in a centre’s parent library. It describes ways to teach young children how to behave considerately, using both preventive and interventive means. As well as offering general principles for meeting children’s emotional needs and teaching considerate behaviour, these concepts are applied to particular difficulties - such as independence issues, social problems, atypical development, and helping children cope with family challenges.

                                                                                                                           AU$30

Young children’s behaviour: Practical approaches for caregivers and teachers
(2008, 3rd edition, Elsevier, Sydney)

This text is the equivalent title to Children are people too, written for early childhood teachers and centre-based care workers. It contains many of the ideas that are recommended for parents but also discusses issues that are specific to working with groups of children, such as managing group story and sleep times, resolving disputes between playmates, programming for children with disabilities or giftedness, collaborating with parents, and developing a centre policy on discipline.

                                                                                                                           AU$50

Educating young children with additional needs
(2002, Allen and Unwin, Sydney)

This text examines how early childhood caregivers and teachers can cater for young gifted children and those with mild learning and other disabilities. It examines how to recognise atypical development in children and individualise the early childhood program accordingly. Individual chapters on gross and fine motor skills, vision and hearing impairments and language and cognitive skill development are written by specialists in each field. Social and emotional needs and guiding children’s behaviour are accorded their own chapter, along with how to collaborate with the children’s parents.

                                                                                                                           AU$45

Gifted young children: A guide for teachers and parents
(2005, 2nd edition, Allen and Unwin, Sydney)

This text begins by describing the various domains in which children can display giftedness, and then examines how gifted potential is transformed into talent. Part two outlines gifted children's social and emotional needs and how teachers and parents can meet these. Section three looks at assessment and curricular adaptations for meeting the learning needs of gifted learners, those who are disadvantaged and those  with disabilities. Parenting gifted children is the subject of the final chapter.

                                                                                                                           AU$40

Student behaviour:Theory and practice for teachers
(2007, 3rd edition, Allen and Unwin, Sydney)

Written for teachers, this text details the major theories of behaviour management with the aim of expanding your repertoire beyond the typical rewards-and-punishment model. It helps you to compare the various theories and ultimately design your own personal view of discipline that reflects your values and beliefs. Practical advice is included about motivating students to learn and to act considerately, for collaborating with parents and for composing a school disciplinary policy.

                                                                                                                           AU$50

Teacher-parent collaboration: early childhood to adolescence
(2008, ACER, Melbourne)

This text describes how teachers can collaborate with diverse parents to solve school-based difficulties. Separate chapters address collaborating with parents whose children have disabilities or chronic illnesses, giftedness, attention difficulties leading to disruptive behaviour, and bullying or aggression. Final chapters focus on families enduring adversity and whose children have been abused.

                                                                                                                           AU$45

*DVD Resource*
Guiding children's behaviour
(2008, Small Poppies, Adelaide)

This live recording presents the differences between guidance and the use of controls, offers alternatives to rewards, presents methods for guiding children when their behaviour is disruptive, and answers participants’ questions on some common behavioural issues. 

                                                                                                           AU$40

Teaching parents a guidance approach: a manual for group leaders
(2008, Small Poppies International, Adelaide)

This book offers a program in six modules for parent educators teaching a guidance approach to discipline in parenting groups or to individual parents. It provides activities for teaching parents the differences between guidance and control, how to acknowledge rather than reward children for their acheivements, how to listen to children and their behaviour, be assertive as a parent and cope with anger, make requests rather than demands, resolve disciplinary incidents and develop solutions for chronic problems.

                                                                                                                           AU$70

A guidance approach to discipline: parent workbook
(2008, Small Poppies International, Adelaide)

This workbook provides notes, activities and reflection exercises for parents participating in courses on a guidance approach to discipline.

                                                                                                                           AU$20

Parent Educators' Kit

comprising one copy each of -

Teaching parents a guidance approach: a manual for group leaders
A guidance approach to discipline: parent workbook
Children are people too
DVD - Guiding children's behaviour

                                                                                                        AU$140