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Dedicated to providing a complete understanding of early years policy and the ability to evaluate its impact on practice, this book is an invaluable guide for early years students and professionals alike. The Second Edition of this well-loved book has been substantially revised including: An entirely new chapter focusing on policy across England, Scotland, Wales, & Northern Ireland Discussion of the proposed new Early Years Foundation Stage Talk of the recent developments in Special Educational Needs An up-to-date timeline of key early years legislation
An accessible comprehensive guide to good practice in the early years for all early years and childcare students and practitioners.
Addressing a range of theoretical perspectives and contexts to stimulate students and practitioners critical thinking about the issues of multi-agency working.
The Eternalists is about seven high school teenagers from New York City’s metropolitan area recruited by an advanced educational program by a lottery to help further their education so they can attend college. Unbeknownst to the teens, there’s a lot going on beneath the surface of this program. Before long, the teens are thrust into a world of mysticism, magic, and the underworld in order to help their teachers, the enigmatic but charismatic Dr. Maximillian and the lovely
Beneath a Hunter’s Moon blood turns from crimson to black . . . Once upon a time they called me Ms. Tyler, Leigh to my friends, a kindergarten teacher who dreamed of love, children and that cliché picket fence. Then my worst mistake came back and brutally took away everything I ever loved. Mistakes . . . they can haunt you. Until you make them stop. I became a hunter, a Jager-Sucher. Specialty: Werewolves. Just because my starry-eyed dreams might be dead, that doesn’t mean everyone else’s has to be. But there’s a bigger, badder beast in town and it’s doing my work for me. Distractions can be deadly and Damien Fitzgerald, a drifter with a questionable past is the ultimate distracti...
The only textbook you′ll need to support you through your entire Early Childhood Studies degree. This updated edition is comprehensive and current, with student voices in every chapter.
Would you like to know more about the way in which a typical child grows and develops in their first eight years? Are you keen to avoid the constraints of an overly formalized early years curriculum? If you answer yes to either of these questions, then this practical, accessible and down-to-earth guide is for you. Arguing that enjoyable, play-based activity forms the basis of all children's learning. Lynda Woodfield takes examples of children at various stages of their physical development and places their progress in a theoretical context.
As the curriculum for young children becomes increasingly differentiated, this book suggests one means of integrating the learning experience at the primary level. It explains how research focused on the ways in which young children learn supports arguments for an outdoor classroom that can provide a broad and balanced curriculum across all areas of learning.
Homework is a key issue for teachers. Achieving a balance between too much and not enough is a tricky business. Kidwell looks at issues concerned with homework including, how much to assign, how to encourage students to do it and advice on how to manage the immense amount of grading homework creates.