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As Early Years care and education comes under closer outside scrutiny the number of practitioners moving into managerial roles is constantly increasing, this book focuses on how to make policy work in practice: clarifying the manager’s responsibilities and his or her duty to lead exploring the use of policy and procedures, why we have procedure, how to create procedures and how to put it into practice offering advice on effective planning, how to monitor progress and activity, and tips on feedback and reflection providing links to Ofsted. This is a must-have for students, assessors, nursery nurses with an interest in career development into management and anyone working within a early-years environment in a managerial role.
Managers in child-centred settings need to be able to draw on a wide range of skills to ensure that they are providing the best possible service for the children in their care. This book looks at how you can develop the leadership skills needed to manage people and services. Balancing accessible theory and practical application from a wide range of settings this book explains management theory and will help you to develop the skills to: become a confident leader; set clear aims and objectives for your setting; manage your time effectively; make decisions and implement change; build and develop.
Part of the Managing in the Early Years series, this book provides practical advice about management theory and practice. Tracking the career development of a nursery nurse into a managerial role, this book: Clearly identifies and explains the managerial roles of team leader, senior supervisor, deputy and manager Focuses on the sudden change that takes place as you transcend from colleague to boss Offers advice on what is expected from you as you move into a managerial role provides case-studies that challenge readers to develop their own views whilst learning about management theory gives Links to relevant Early Years management qualification frameworks and the NVQ and Btec National Diploma in the Early Years. Easy to use and apply, this is a must-have for students, assessors, nursery nurses with an interest in career development into management and anyone working within a early-years environment in a managerial role.
Making management ideas easy to grasp and providing practical advice on management theory and practice, this book focuses on how to make policy work in practice: providing comprehensive advice on managing resources including advice on Health & Safety and promoting a healthy environment clear explanations of how to measure cost, incomes, ratios and effective efficiency Suggestions on how to bring about change and improvement.
Focusing on all aspects of staff assessment and the importance of creating an effective childcare environment, this text includes advice on grounding the approaches to good management in the values of excellent childcare practice.
Operating on two levels, this book aims to help students and practitioners understand how to plan and use time effectively within the foundation stage setting. The book examines how children learn and play at different times of day, how they fiction when they might be tired or hungry and how best to organize the learning day with this in mind. The authors discuss the issue of environment, how children relate to different areas within their own room, and what happens when routines of time and place are altered. The book also discusses how to develop children's understanding of time and how to incorporate the theme of time into children's play. The book includes: practical activities and examples that will allow children to fully comprehend the concept of time advice on how to create time for children to learn through play, inquiry and investigation sections on how time can be used to include parents, colleagues and the local community. This book provides in-depth analysis of how effective use of time can be beneficial for parents, children and staff in early years setting.
Garden and landscape is written for students and serious gardeners in a personal, characteristically forthright style. It contains the distilled experience of a lifetime working in landscape, and particularly in gardens. The book emphasizes the need of clients and the solution for many problems faced by garden-owners and by the designers contracted to find the remedies. Principles and comments are amplified with the author's own line drawings and layouts, further enhanced with many photographs. Foreword by John Brookes.
Best-selling Victorian author Jane Austen has created many memorable female characters, with intriguing Emma Woodhouse being perhaps the most popular. Emma, a matchmaker at heart, is obsessed with love and romance for...
The 17 women of the Hawaii bar whose biographies are presented lived through, and were involved in, the dramatic changes that brought Hawaii from monarchy independent Republic to Territory and, finally, to statehood. The introducti by editor Matsuda places the lives of these early women lawyers in t