Combining fun, easy-to-do activities with research-based tips and developmental overviews,Raising a Talkerhelps parents and caregivers naturally transform play sessions into meaningful language-learning experiences.
The development of new policy on the British Values and the Prevent Duty in the early years has raised many questions about appropriate implementation.
Wenn Kinder trauern: Begleitung in schwieriger ZeitDer Tod der Oma, der Verlust eines Freundes, das tote Tier auf der Straße: Der Tod gehört zum Lebensalltag der Kinder.
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.
To embrace today's culturally and linguistically diverse secondary English Language Arts (ELA) classrooms, this text presents ways in which teachers can use digital tools in the service of antiracist teaching and developing equity-oriented mindsets in teaching and learning.
The characteristics of effective learning - playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically - underpin young children's learning and development and are central to the revised Early Years Foundation Stage.
First published in 1966, Experiment and Tradition in Primary Schools was written to provide an account of the author's pioneering study of the attainment of young children in schools where the curriculum was shaped by their spontaneous interests.
This book focuses on the question of how different contexts are relevant in the shaping and expression of individual spirituality spanning from early childhood to young adulthood.
Supporting Children's Learning in the Early Years is aimed at early years practitioners who are developing their knowledge and understanding of professional practice through studying at undergraduate level.
Filled with movement activities, games, fingerplays, chants, and songs, Teachable Transitions transforms necessary transitions into pleasurable moments that children look forward to!
Review of the first edition:'This book provides a very accessible approach to building a better understanding of young children and their development and will be an interesting and useful read for both experienced early years practitioners and for students who are just beginning to build their practical experience.
This book is a practical guide to help primary school staff initiate, or further develop monitoring procedures for both the school curriculum and management.
**Nursery World Award finalist** From a leading voice in the early years community comes an accessible, dip in, dip out guide to all the hot topics in the sector.
With the help of this book, teachers will learn to utilize a variety of shared creative strategies and techniquesfrom aromatherapy to affirmationsto address and adjust problematic behavior in the classroom while simultaneously promoting resilience and active engagement in learning.
This book provides an analysis of Early Childhood Development (ECD) in South Sudanese refugee camps in Uganda, making the case for the design and implementation of programmes for ECD in emergency situations.
Fully updated in its 2nd edition, this comprehensive and accessible book is a one-stop introductory text for those entering the field of early childhood studies and early years.
This second edition of Supporting Boys' Writing in the Early Years shows how you can help boys to become confident and capable writers by supporting them to write in ways that make sense to them - on the move, outside and inside, in dens, in bushes, in mud, or sprawled on the floor dressed as superheroes.
Representing the state of the art in multimedia applications and their promise for enhancing early literacy development, this volume broadens the field of reading research by looking beyond print-only experiences to young readers' encounters with multimedia stories on the Internet and DVD.
Rethinking Early Literacies honors the identities of young children as they read, write, speak, and play across various spaces, in and out of pre/school.
What can you add to your early childhood classroom that will immerse children in rich learning, reduce challenging behaviors, and develop confidence as well as critical thinking and problem-solving skills?
Understanding Physical Development in the Early Years provides an accessible introduction to the current research and thinking in this area alongside descriptions of everyday practice.
Environmental education expert David Sobel joins with a variety of colleagues to share their experiences and steps for creating a successful forest kindergarten program.
This full-color clinicians manual is the authoritative guide to implementing the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation (JASPER) intervention.
By explaining the theoretical context and highlighting relevant research evidence, this book supports a whole child approach to learning in the early years.
Now in a revised and updated second edition, Early Visual Skills is a practical manual for use with children and young people who have underdeveloped visual perceptual skills.
Thinking with language as a complex practice for educators, advocates, and researchers in early childhood education is a necessary gesture for countering the anti-intellectualism that designates early childhood education as a service providing custodial care.
An essential part of children's development in the early years involves creative engagement through language, gestures, body movements, drawing, music, and creating shared meanings in playful contexts.
