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Considers every aspect of outdoor play - from its rationale in early childhood education, to incorporating it successfully into the curriculum and assessing its wider implications for teaching and learning.
This book offers practical examples and informed advice about: how even very young children form close relationships with each other, the ways that observant adults can nuture possible friendships, understanding social play and skills from the children's perspective, young children who may have special difficulty over making friends and leading best practice for promoting friendships and realistic social skills in early childhood.
Are you considering moving jobs? Do you want to stay in the same school or take the plunge and move to a different one? More important, are you determined to have the edge on the other applicants? If you answer yes to any of these questions, then this is the book for you. Tom Miller provides practical guidance to the key steps of getting promoted, such as impressing your superiors, writing a CV and covering letter and answering the really tough interview questions.
Mark O'Hara demonstrates how ICT can be used to motivate, excite and enthuse young children in their learning, while at the same time addressing the more common concerns voiced by early years practitioners. This book provides guidance on all aspects of teaching using ICT.
An accessible comprehensive guide to good practice in the early years for all early years and childcare students and practitioners.
This book will determine precisely how stressed you are and then provide sensible strategies for helping you to ease your workload and ensure you have at least some time to unwind during term time. Getting Organized is the definitive resource for managing your career so that it doesn't manage you!
A thought-provoking re-examination of children's play drawing together insights and experiences across fields such as education, sociology, philosophy and psychology to encourage an inter-disciplinary approach.
Both home and school play a crucial role in the long-term development of a young child, yet many children experience a disjunction between their two worlds. This book explores strategies for developing effective partnerships between teachers and parents for a more integrated approach.
Playing and Learning Outdoors shows early years practitioners how to get the very best from outdoor playing and learning for the enjoyment, health and education of all children from ages three to five years. Fully updated to reflect the current status and understandings regarding outdoor provision within early childhood education frameworks, this new edition will allow practitioners to develop rich and stimulating outdoor play provision in Early Years settings and enable them to feel confident to offer wonderful play experiences outdoors. Playing and Learning Outdoors offers practitioners achievable advice and support, based on approaches which are appropriate and effective for young childre...
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.