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Pedagogical Documentation in Early Childhood
Sharing Childrens Learning and Teachers' Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
An inspiring step-by-step guide to documenting children's ideas, questions, and learning in a way that enhances teacher's thinking and understanding
Planning an Appropriate Curriculum in the Early Years
A guide for early years practitioners and leaders, students and parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
The foundation stage has a fundamental role in the laying of foundations for children's learning. In this new edition the author uses a wide range of material, including research evidence, to offer an additional dimension to work currently taking place in the Foundation Stage.
Each chapter...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
'What a super book! It is absolutely packed with practical ideas and activities to help you love maths, and love teaching and/or learning it. It certainly helps to develop an enthusiasm for a subject most adults tend to say "I'm no good at..."'
- Early Years Educator
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Inside the 'Inclusive' Early Childhood Classroom
The Power of the 'Normal'
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Inside the ‘Inclusive’ Childhood Classroom: The Power of the ‘Normal’ offers a critique of current practices and alternative view of inclusion. The rich data created inside three classrooms will challenge those who work in the field, as the children and their performances, previously overlooked,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2008
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) came into force in September 2008 and established a framework for providing learning, development and care for children from birth to five. This book examines the EYFS within the context of Achieving QTS and is a core text for primary trainees covering this...
Doing Your Early Years Research Project
A Step by Step Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This bestselling guide to undertaking your Early Years research project takes the reader on a practical step-by-step journey. Breaking down each section into accessible and digestible topics, and accompanied by a multitude of practical examples, case studies, research summaries and key points, the...
Early Childhood Grows Up
Towards a Critical Ecology of the Profession
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Once the Cinderella of the education system, early years education has evolved into a much more substantially funded sector with staff experiencing greater opportunities for higher-level training and education as well as increasing demands. This book reflects practitioner debates about fundamental...
Professional Development and Quality in Early Childhood Education
Comparative European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This book provides a global overview of developments and discussion around the evaluation of quality of early childhood education environments, and the professional development of early childhood teachers, during the last decade. It reports on the Early Change project, a European-funded research project...
Mathematizing
An Emergent Math Curriculum Approach for Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
This proven, accessible approach to a curriculum presents a learner-centered approach to math education. Mathematizing provides both the emergent curriculum and professional development frameworks to help young children learn math throughout their everyday routine and to facilitate teachers' understanding...
The Outdoor Classroom Ages 3-7
Using Ideas From Forest Schools to Enrich Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Emphasising the importance of continuity for young children, The Outdoor Classroom Ages 3–7 practically demonstrates how early years settings and schools can maximise the learning potential of the outdoor environment. Fully updated to take into account the revised EYFS and Key Stage 1 curricula...
by Rachel Sparks Linfield
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Plan for six weeks of learning covering all six areas of learning and development of the EYFS through the topic of minibeasts. 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 weeks...
Creativity and Making in Early Childhood
Challenging Practitioner Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Creativity and Making in Early Childhood brings together practice and research insights on creativity, to offer new perspectives on what creativity is, how it manifests in early childhood education and what can be done to support it.
Each chapter includes practitioners' own experiences and...
by Sonia Blandford, Catherine Knowles
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Developing Professional Practice 0-7 provides a thoroughly comprehensive and cutting edge guide to developing the understanding and practical skills necessary for working within early years education. The new edition is fully updated for the revised Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework.
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by Ann Montague-Smith, Tony Cotton, Alice Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
This fourth edition of the bestselling Mathematics in Early Years Education provides an accessible introduction to the teaching of mathematics in the early years. Covering all areas of mathematics – number and counting, calculation, pattern, shape, measures and data handling – it provides a wide...