Pre-school and kindergarten

This manual is designed to help teachers establish a principled framework for developing English at Key Stages 1 and 2.

Pedagogical documentation is a vital method of assessing and observing young children, and is a practice that enables practitioners, families and children to learn alongside each other.

Teachers in primary schools deal with a wide range of issues every day.

From Oops to Aha pulls back the curtain on learning from mistakes in four public school Kindergarten classrooms: urban, charter, Montessori, and suburban.

How does early years policy impact on practitioners, children, settings and families?

Dealing with parents can be scary and intimidating, especially when you are relatively new to your role, but it can also be hugely rewarding.

We live in an ever demanding world where
independent, creative thinking is highly prized.

Activities to help children learn ways to feel good about themselves and their bodies and develop important lifelong healthy habits.

The outdoor play environment has an integral role to play in a child's learning across the pivotal early childhood years.

With the revision of the EYFS, Personal, Social and Emotional Development (PSED) became one of the three Prime Areas of learning.

Written by two leading experts in the field, this welcome third edition of Children in Difficulty: A guide to understanding and helping discusses some of the most common, yet incapacitating, difficulties that are frequently encountered by young children and adolescents.

Teaching STEM to young children is about more than helping them learn their numbers and facts.

Teach students to write about math so they can improve their conceptual understanding in authentic ways.

Müssen begabte Kinder bereits im Kindergarten besonders gefördert werden?

Originally published in 1998.

This practical guide is the ideal tool for the busy practitioner or speech and language therapist to provide an effective, meaningful, and contextualised approach to language development using picture books.

Originally published in 1931, the study reported in this book was undertaken as part of the research programme of the Canadian National Committee for Mental Hygiene.

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the public consumption of changing ideas about children, childhood, and national identity, via a critical examination of programs that prominently feature children and youth in international television.

This astute book initiates a broad discussion from a variety of different disciplines about how we place children nationally, globally and within development discourses.

A beginners primer to providing child care for infants!

History in the Early Years is an innovative and accessible guide to helping young children explore the past through their environment, family history and story.

Bridging the gap between learning and the application of knowledge and skills in Early Years settings, this book addresses the nuanced complexities and challenges which students may face as they progress into professional practice.

There is continuing emphasis on delivering services for children through 'joined up' thinking and integrated working.

`Planning Educational Visits for the Early Years is full of advice on how to make visits enjoyable learning opportunities as well as great fun.

The 50 Fantastic Ideas series is packed full of fun, original, skills-based activities for Early Years practitioners to use with children aged 0-5.

Preschoolers tend to be social beings.

Managers in child-centred settings need to be able to draw on a wide range of personal and professional skills to ensure that they are providing the best possible service.

The outdoor environment is an integral part of many early years settings and schools, but is it being used to its full potential?

How often do your primary school pupils have the opportunity to engage in open-ended, sustained pieces of work that offer them choice and control?

The Handbook of Classroom Management, Third Edition, is an authoritative treatment of the latest science and development in the study of classroom management in schools.

This book provides an analysis of childrens play across many different cultural communities around the globe.

The true wealth of a nation can be measured by the health of its youngest citizens and in the twenty-first century, childrens health and well-being is largely determined by social, environmental and economic influences.

Deftly weaving anthropology, sociology, psychology, and theories of education, Honoring the Moment in Young Childrens Lives invites us to remake our image of the child and truly appreciate childrens lives as we see through their eyes.

This book is packed with bright ideas and practical projects for children aged 4-11 to raise environmental awareness and prompt discussion about climate change.

The assessment of young childrens development and learning has recently taken on new importance.

Is there an 'ideal' primary school curriculum?

`This book is useful for students and lecturers of early childhood.

This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food.

Children's and young people's right to participate has been increasingly acknowledged and taken up internationally, as expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Gender and sexuality are often problematically considered to be irrelevant to very young children.

In this innovative book, Amanda Norman looks at D.

Parents are eager to help their children learn, but teaching young children complicated scientific and mathematical concepts can be intimidating.

The kindergarten--as institution, as educational philosophy, and as social reform movement--is one of Germany's most important contributions to the world.

With this book, any teacher can start teaching philosophy to children today!

Every child belongs.

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care explores early childhood education and care in Australia from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity of working within the field and the need for a truly interdisciplinary approach.

It is widely known that babies and infants will flourish in an environment that supports and promotes their learning and development.

This book is packed with practical ideas and techniques to enable early years educators to support the communication development of the children in their setting and to understand the relationship between communication and emotional wellbeing.

The provisions of the 1988 Education Reform Act have given many schools the turnover and responsibilities of a medium-sized business.

This innovative text offers a unique approach to making mathematics education research on addition, subtraction, and number concepts readily accessible and understandable to pre-service and in-service teachers of grades K-3.