A Matter of Trust: Connecting Teachers and Learners in the Early Childhood Classroom (Early Childhood Education Series (Teachers College Pr))

Increasingly, teachers report that the young children who enter their classrooms are difficult to manage. This perception is supported by alarming statistics on the number of children growing up in difficult circumstances. In this volume, the authors draw on their expericences as a developmental psychologist and as a teacher educator to provide ways for teachers to creat postitive child-teacher relationships and classroom climates.