The Best for Babies: Expert Advice for Assessing Infant-Toddler Programs

By Alice Honig, PhD

Caregiver-child interactions are critically important in promoting cognitive, language, and social-emotional learning in young children. With examples and detailed explanations, The Best for Babies illuminates the behaviors and interactions that teachers or care providers should provide for the children in their care. The book offers an easy-to-use checklist to assess each teacher-child interpersonal relationship and the ways caregivers offer learning and living experiences for young children. Teachers and caregivers can use the checklist to grow in their professional expertise and careers as they continue to guide children’s learning and well-being. Directors and mentors can use the information gained by using the checklist to help teachers and caregivers optimize the outcomes for each child.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gryphon House, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9780876595558

Alice Honig, PhD

Alice Sterling Honig, PhD, professor emerita in the Syracuse University department of child and family studies, has devoted her career to discovering ways to best nurture and support the development of infants and toddlers. For 36 years, she directed Syracuse University's National Quality Infant/Toddler Caregiving Workshop. Additionally, she has taught courses in parenting, prosocial development, observation and assessment, cross-cultural and language development, and research methods in studying children.  Dr. Honig is the author of over 600 articles and chapters and regularly presents training sessions and delivers keynote addresses to promote high-quality child care all over the United States and in several other countries. For a decade, Dr. Honig was program director of the Children’s Center, a pioneer enrichment project serving teen parents and children. As a licensed psychologist in the state of New York, Dr. Honig carries out assessments of infants’, preschoolers’, and school-age children’s cognitive and emotional development as well as helping families with problems.