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Choosing Toys that Matter : = Which Toys are Most Effective in Helping Children Develop Social-Emotional, Language, and Gross Motor Skills.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Choosing Toys that Matter :/
Reminder of title:	Which Toys are Most Effective in Helping Children Develop Social-Emotional, Language, and Gross Motor Skills.
Author:	Jenkins, Nitara Antoinetta.
Description:	1 online resource (125 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-02A(E).
Subject:	Early childhood education. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355336788

Choosing Toys that Matter : = Which Toys are Most Effective in Helping Children Develop Social-Emotional, Language, and Gross Motor Skills.
Jenkins, Nitara Antoinetta.

Choosing Toys that Matter :Which Toys are Most Effective in Helping Children Develop Social-Emotional, Language, and Gross Motor Skills. - 1 online resource (125 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Northcentral University, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references

When selecting toys for classrooms, teachers typically consider that children need a well-balanced assortment of toys to contribute to growth, development, and pleasure. Head Start, a program that began in 1965 is one of the many programs that utilizes play with toys to enhance children's learning and development. Today, Head Start's primary goal is to promote school readiness by providing education, health, and other social services to low-income preschool-aged children and their families. However, one of the issues that Head Start programs face is a lack of allowable costs for purchasing developmentally appropriate classroom toys and materials. This lack in allowable costs can lead to children not being exposed to cognitively stimulating toys and materials that promote early childhood developmental skills. Since teachers are considered experts in the field of education and are required to plan and implement learning practices that are connected to children's needs and interests, teacher's experienced and perceptions were examined about which toys contribute most to the social-emotional, language, and fine motor development of Head Start children in Jackson County, Mississippi. Six teachers employed by Jackson County Civic Action Agency responded to the invitation to participate in the study. Face to face interviews, and a demographic questionnaire were conducted to collect data regarding teacher's perception and experiences selecting developmentally appropriate toys. Research findings in this study were consistent with the literature related to toys that stimulate children's social-emotional, language, and fine-motor development. The two themes relevant to question 1 were dramatic play and Conscious Discipline. The five themes relevant to question two were real-world materials, Smart Boards, books, music, and talking to children-reiterating commands/responses. The four themes relevant to question three were handwriting, cutting with scissors, manipulatives, and modeling clay/playdough. The recommendation for application was the development of a process to ensure both teachers and administrators have the ability to select and evaluate toy and material effectiveness in Head Start classrooms. Future research studies should include a larger number of Head Start Teachers, as well as different Head Start programs in different counties and states.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355336788Subjects--Topical Terms:

557157
Early childhood education.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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