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

For adults who work with young children, Feldman, a former music and education professor, composer, and performer who directs a non-profit education foundation, explains holistic and arts-based techniques for enhancing children's academic and social-emotional development to meet their potential. He shows readers how to reconnect with their own childlike wonder and love of learning and become master teachers by honoring their master teachers, engaging all learning styles, asking questions to develop critical thinking skills, improvising to encourage creativity, and teaching in both width and depth. He outlines his life learning techniques, along with practical ideas, to enhance learning, growth, and development by adding music, affirming children to improve their self-concept, teaching breathing and relaxing techniques, teaching imagining and visualizing, using movement and children's natural energy, and using dramatic delivery to enhance engagement and improve comprehension. He ends with discussion of the effectiveness of the principles and techniques. There is no index. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)