Reddit mentions: The best early childhood education books

Things are definitely not over and you can turn this around. I am a college professor
Who trains student teachers so I know what you're going through. I've written a book for new preschool teachers called the Positive Preschool: http://www.amazon.com/The-Positive-Preschool-Hands-Smooth-Running/dp/0988276623 This books goes step by step in getting your classroom to run smoothly and how to work with challenging behavior.

I agree with the other responses here. Also you can turn things around with your TA. Be sure to ask for her advice and give her positive feedback when she does appropriate things. Kill her with kindness and show her you can be worthy of her respect.

Hi,
I'm a first year teacher in Australia as well. I'm teaching 5-6year olds. I highly recommend this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Behaviour-Management-Young-Children-Crucial/dp/1847873642
This book helped me a lot when thinking of how I would set expectations etc at the start of the year and I feel like my classroom management has been working overall... there are always bad days though and I have so much to learn still. The book talks about the things you have mentioned like the importance of following through with consequences and what kinds of consequences are appropriate for what behaviours etc. Feel free to message me if you have any questions.

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It isn't that Americans are dumber than you oh-so-intelligent Brits. It's that our culture values self-expression. This is evident even when you watch videos of preschools around the world. American preschools focus a lot more on self-expression. This cultural value influences a lot about what America is, and it also, unfortunately, makes people too confident about their opinions. The result is that America looks dumber because the dumb people speak up more.

EDIT: really not seeing why you guys are opposed to this. It's generally well accepted that the US has an individualistic culture, and that we specifically train our youth to value self-expression. The video I'm referring to is the one that goes with this book. I also highly recommend this book.

a combo from having this
http://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Early-Childhood-Literacy-Nigel/dp/0761974377/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344168402&sr=1-1&keywords=0761974377

reading a lot on it online, talking to doctor friends who have young kids and raising two multilingual kids.

https://p4c.com/ is a programme for teachers wishing to do philosophy at primary and secondary level, you might get some use out of it. they have an introductory pdf here: https://p4c.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Philosophy-for-Children-how-to-4.pdf

see also https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-Young-Children-Berys-Gaut/dp/0415619742/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497540179&sr=8-1&keywords=gaut+philosophy+young