The boy who wants to be a helicopter

Author: Vivian Gussin Paley
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: Vivian Gussin Paley is a global expert in early childhood education and has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship and the Erikson Institute Award for Excellence in Service to Children. The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Helicopter can be considered a highly innovative book in the field of early childhood education. Paley's innovation lies in using children's stories as a teaching method. As an artist who uses her classroom children as her materials, Paley's year-end work product is a group of confident children who can interact with each other freely. The children will soon leave preschool. However, each child will take something away from Vivian Paley, which is the reason why the art of a talented teacher can endure. The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Helicopter focuses on how Jason's teacher and classmates in the classroom face the challenges posed by this shy boy. The book vividly describes how Jason, initially an outsider, gradually integrates into the group and overcomes his self-isolation to develop a healthy and confident self-image.