Preschool Kindergarten category: 2281 books
Movement and Experimentation in Young Children's Learning
Deleuze and Guattari in Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2009
In contemporary educational contexts young children and learning are tamed, predicted, supervised, controlled and evaluated according to predetermined standards. Contesting such intense governing of the learning child, this book argues that the challenge to practice and research is to find ways of...
The Science inside the Child
The story of what happens when we're growing up
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This engaging book presents some of the ways in which science can describe and explain how and why children develop in the way they do. It looks at children’s individual development within the development of our species, at genes, at the hormone systems that flood our bodies, at the neuroscience...
Helping Children Learn
Contributions to a Cognitive Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Originally published in 1988, this volume presented a new understanding of how teachers in early childhood education helped children learn. It carefully and critically reviews different teaching approaches, and evaluates two innovatory teaching techniques which were at the focus of recent action research...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baby Brain Games
Over 200 Brain-Boosting Games for Brilliant Babies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Play that stimulates young minds.
Play is the language that babies know best. Here, readers will find over 300 games to play with infants from one week to eighteen months old. Divided into games that stimulate cognitive, language, emotional, and social development, this book will delight parents...
The Nursery Year in Action
Following children’s interests through the year
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Child-led learning in the early years allows children to thrive while making accelerated progress. Young children learn and develop best when they are in a stimulating environment which is carefully organised and equipped to meet their needs, interests and stages of development, and where each child’s...
Child-Initiated Learning
Positive Relationships in the Early Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
How to plan for an individualised learning journey with every child in your care. Covering how to plan and support each child through sustained shared thinking, this book will give you the skills you need to follow each child's interests and plan for engaging learning experiences. The book offers practical...
by Lucy Peet
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Working in the early years can be challenging, but to be outstanding in the early years can be even more difficult. This book contains 100 easily to implement ideas to transform your planning, practice and setting from good to outstanding in a flash! Full of tips to promote children's independence,...
by Lesley Hendy
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Plan for six weeks of learning covering all six areas of learning and development of the EYFS through the topic of fairy stories. The Planning for Learning series is a series of topic books written around the Early Years Foundation Stage designed to make planning easy. This book takes you through six...
by Rachel Sparks Linfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Plan for six weeks of learning covering all six areas of learning and development of the EYFS through the topic of people who help us. The Planning for Learning series is a series of topic books written around the Early Years Foundation Stage designed to make planning easy. This book takes you through...
by Stella Louis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage.
Each book gives clear and detailed explanations of each aspect of Learning and Development and encourages readers to consider...
Planning in the Moment with Young Children
A Practical Guide for Early Years Practitioners and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Young children live in the here and now. If adults are to make a real difference to their learning they need to seize the moments when children first show curiosity, and support their next steps immediately. This book embraces the concept of planning "in the moment" and emphasises the critical...
Outdoor Learning through the Seasons
An essential guide for the early years
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Outdoor play experiences have a crucial role in young children’s learning and development and should be a daily part of their lives. Planning and facilitating rich play and learning opportunities outside can, however, be challenging, especially in difficult weather conditions. Outdoor Learning through...
Early Learning Goals for Children with Special Needs
Learning Through Play
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
In this book practitioners will find clear and workable suggestions for opening up the Early Learning Goals to children with special educational needs. It will help them to use each work area of the early years setting as a means to teach the curriculum, and offers plenty of down-to-earth advice on...
by Ann Roberts, Avril Harpley
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
For babies, learning is about exploring and finding things out for themselves.
Helping Children to be Competent Learners covers:
making connections
being imaginative
being creative
representing.
This handy little series of books links directly to the Government’s Birth to...