Pre-school and kindergarten

How can teachers develop best practice in art teaching?

Assessment of Young Children with Special Needs, Second Edition helps prepare teachers for the task of evaluating the skills of infants, toddlers, and preschool children with developmental delays and those considered at risk to experience developmental delays or difficulties.

The past two decades have seen exponential growth of urbanisation and migration in China.

Essential reading for all Reception and Year One teachers, presenting a clear and practical map for effective transition to support children's emotional, social and academic development.

The Dyslexia Assessment is a complete assessment tool for investigating reading, writing and spelling difficulties in learners.

How do you become an effective primary school teacher?

The Practical Guidance in the Early Years Foundation Stage series will assist practitioners in the smooth and successful implementation of the Early Years Foundation Stage.

Become a better advocate-for your students, for your coworkers, and for yourself-with the valuable strategies in this accessible guidebook.

The Second Edition of Teaching Music to Students with Special Needs offers updated accounts of music educators' experiences, featured as vignettes throughout the book.

Create meaningful experiences and engage children in learning through play.

Explore connections between math and everyday life with your child!

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood brings together scholars, practitioners, and activists to explore the diversity of children's gender identities, expressions, and embodiments across historical, geographical, and cultural contexts.

Marta doesn't want Noah in her story.

Karen Quinn has successfully taught hundreds of parents how to prepare their children for testing, and Testing For Kindergarten is her ultimate, comprehensive guide to having fun while teaching to the underlying abilities every test assesses.

Taking a fresh look at the role of creativity within the early years, this accessible guide explores what is meant by creativity and considers how creative skills, behaviours, and thinking can be identified and fostered in the individual child.

Troubling the Changing Paradigms is the fourth volume in the Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor's Choice series and represents a collection of texts that were selected as representations of the philosophy and pedagogy of early years, childhood and early childhood education.

In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child development, providing a critical evaluation of the role and contribution of developmental psychology within social practice.

This Volume 16, number 3 of Early education and Development, published in July 2005.

Observing and understanding schematic behaviour confidently is vital for anyone working with or looking after young children.

This book is for all teachers who have curriculum and management responsibilities in primary schools or who aspire to those positions.

Providing a deeper understanding of how two-year-old children learn, Understanding Schematic Learning at Two highlights how a schematic pedagogy can be used to recognise and support two-year-old children's thinking and understanding of the world around them.

More than 100 movement activities for early elementary childrenPhysical education is a critical part of every early childhood curriculum.

Growing Up with Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describes and evaluates the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and looks at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two languages and cultures.

I know there is something wrong, but what?

Through compelling examples, Brian Edmiston presents the case for why and how adults should play with young children to create with them a 'workshop for life'.

The early years sector is going through a period of unprecedented change.

For any parent or parent-to-be this book, originally published in 1972, was intended to open new doors, answering questions about themselves and their children, and be illuminating to many others professionally concerned with parents.

Pete, Jem and Belle are enjoying a day at the beach until the weather turns stormy.

The Trouble with Play is a radical departure from some of the ideas about play that are held dear by many in early childhood education.

Pip and the Flyaway Balloon is the second book in the invaluable 'Pip and Bunny' collection; a set of six picture books with an accompanying handbook and e-resources carefully written and illustrated to support the development of visual and literary skills.

Sometimes misbehavior isn't what it seems.

This book deals with the key professional issues faced by students on teacher training courses and practising primary teachers.

Humans, especially children, are naturally curious.

This practical book provides an accessible framework for observing and assessing children's learning through play.

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

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

Playwork in Practice introduces the ways that playwork can be used across the children's workforce, including carers, qualified teachers, parents and other adults.

The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability.

This is the first ever introduction to Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Framework written specifically for undergraduate students.

This book draws on a wide range of management theory and shows its relevance and relationship to early years settings.

Young children live in the here and now.

How should we understand children's creativity?

This highly practical book shows how staff in early years settings can implement simple changes to make positive behaviour a reality for all.

Steven is having a birthday party, but it's a long journey to the party.

What are schemas and why should you know about them?

Created from previously-published material in the existing Piggyback Songs Series, this title features songs that focus on events and activities young children experience on a daily basis.

How to Use Work Group Supervision to Improve Early Years Practice presents a new model for supervision as a collaborative process, and explores how this process can benefit practitioners at all stages in their career to reflect on and improve their own practice.

Exploring Children's Learning: 3-11 years is essential reading for those passionate about supporting children's learning environments from Early Years to Key Stage 2.

The third edition of this significant and groundbreaking book summarizes current research into how young children learn mathematics and how best to develop foundational knowledge to realize more effective teaching.