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This is a practical, step-by-step guide to implementing the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) in any early years setting.
In this newly updated edition, Julian Grenier leads you through the new updated Ofsted framework, and shows you how to navigate the process focusing on doing what is best for children and families to build long-lasting and effective provision that can be maintained before, during and after inspection.
The thought of a looming Ofsted inspection can send even the most positive practitioner into a panic. Julian Grenier leads you through the new updated Ofsted framework, and shows you how to navigate the process. He focuses on doing what is best for children and families to build long-lasting and effective provision that can be maintained before, during and after inspection. This new edition includes: • More downloadable templates and resources • Detailed coverage of the curriculum, and the new ‘Quality of education’ judgement • Guidance on working with parents and carers to ensure their voices are part of the Ofsted inspection process This book is ideal for Headteachers, EYFS co-ordinators, Nursery Managers and Early Years practitioners.
Reflective Teaching in Early Education is the definitive textbook for reflective professionals in early education, drawing on the experience of the author team and the latest research, including the Teaching and Learning Research Programme (TLRP) findings. It offers extensive support for both undergraduate and postgraduate students and career-long professionalism for early years practitioners working in pre-schools, child care settings and the first years of primary schools. Written by a collaborative author team of leading early years educationalists and practitioners led by Jennifer Colwell, Reflective Teaching in Early Education offers two levels of support: - comprehensive, practical gui...
This delightful book, by the author of Giraffes Can’t Dance, features a collection of rhyming poems with colorful illustrations and is a wonderful way to introduce little ones to the animals who live in the jungle. Now available in a sturdy board book format! Children will love learning about jungle life with these fun and snappy poems! This adorable and educational collection includes: · Lively, colorful illustrations on every page · Clever rhyming verses perfect for bedtime read aloud · Rounded corners and sturdy board pages are just right for little hands · Many different animals to meet from the jungle, including the elephant, tiger, and giraffe · A special secret creature to find on every page!
Join Hetty, a little elephant determined to prove her worth in a world that's not built for her to thrive. Hetty wants to win the annual climbing competition, and she works very hard to train for it. But elephants aren't meant to climb. Not even Hetty's friends can cheer her up! Hetty feels like she doesn't have any strengths--until danger threatens the big climbing competition and Hetty is the only one who can help. This tale of appreciating individuality also includes activities to help readers see their own strengths.
The research project "Special Places; Special People" is designed to provide insight and advice in the management of schools and their grounds for the benefit of children. This document describes the project's research methodology and findings, explores some of the wider implications arising from the study, and suggests ways in which schools might embark upon effecting change. Research findings are discussed on how children read the external environment and school grounds. Issues arising from these findings examine the importance of school grounds to children in a modern society, the messages school grounds convey about the ethos of schools, and children's attitudes and behavior that are determined by the school grounds and the way they are managed. The report's concluding section contains an alphabetical listing of references and resource information on school grounds development, play theory, children and the environment, children's games, and lunchtime supervision and management. (GR)
In response to growing pressure on early years practitioners to adopt a ‘tick-box’ approach to recording children’s progress, Celebrating Children’s Learning sets out a bold, alternative vision for assessment in the early years. Drawing upon an inspiring collaboration between London nursery schools, this book explores and reconsiders the purpose of observation in early years settings. Contributors provide a range of examples to guide early years practitioners as they develop their own methods of observation. Play, social interaction, and cooperation with parents are shown to be valuable opportunities for keen observation. Chapters discuss: - moving beyond data-focussed assesment - Characteristics of Effective Learning - ensuring inclusive assessment - collaborating with parents from diverse backgrounds - outdoor learning – a Forest School approach. Inspiring and empowering, Celebrating Children’s Learning is essential reading for teachers, practitioners, and students involved in early education.
Nursery World Awards 2012 winner! This stimulating book brings together contributions from distinguished practitioners, who demonstrate how they have used educational methods advocated by Froebel in contemporary settings. Stressing the importance of outdoor play, they explore the Froebelian principles of: - Play - Learning through firsthand experience - Parent partnership and community in early childhood - Practitioners supporting children′s interests and learning - Finger rhymes and action songs - Movement - The garden and forests - Wooden blockplay - Use of clay, paint, junk modelling, construction kits The book emphasises how learning and the application of knowledge become possible through play. It contrasts the Froebel approach with the methods such as Montessori, Steiner and recent approaches to play such as post-Modern ′playfulness′. This book is relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Early Childhood Education, as well as students following QTS and EYPS, PGCE, CPD and BEd courses. Tina Bruce CBE is an Honorary Visiting Professor in Early Childhood at the University of Roehampton.
A New York Times bestseller that TODAY calls “beautiful” and “stunning!” Boys and girls can take to the air and learn how precious the Earth and her natural resources are. This interactive book immerses children in a fun and unique journey. Jump aboard the White Feather Flier, a magical plane that can go wherever you want! Just press a button printed on the page, and point the plane up in the air to fly, or down to land it! Fly to the top of a mountain! Send clean water to thirsty people! Dive deep into the ocean (the Flier turns into a submarine!) to pick up pollution and bring back the fish! Explore the planet, meet new people, and help make the world a better place! The Flier's mi...