2nd Edition

Developing Professional Practice 0-7

By Sonia Blandford, Catherine Knowles Copyright 2016
444 Pages
by Routledge

444 Pages
by Routledge

444 Pages
by Routledge

Developing Professional Practice 0-7 provides a thoroughly comprehensive and cutting edge guide to developing the understanding and practical skills necessary for working within early years education. The new edition is fully updated for the revised Early Years Foundation Stage Statutory Framework. The updated edition covers all core topics associated with developing effective... Read more

Part 1- Leading Learning

Chapter 1-Policy to Practice: Children as individuals

Chapter 2 –Values promoting learning

Chapter 3- Communication

Chapter 4- Collaborating to promote learning: A framework for leadership

Chapter 5- Commitment to change

Part 2- Improving children’s outcomes

Chapter 6- Knowing the child: Development and Learning

Chapter 7- Assessment

Chapter 8- Next Steps: Developing an Aspirational framework

Chapter 9- Planning

Chapter 10- Developing pedagogy to meet teaching needs

Part 3- Health, happiness and well being

Chapter 11- The learning environment

Chapter 12- Computer technologies and environments for learning

Chapter 13- Developing behaviour for learning and well being

Chapter 14- The child’s voice: enhancing communication

Chapter 15- Well- being through the Early Learning Goals

Part 4- Working with others

Chapter 16- Engaging parents and carers

Chapter 17- Working with colleagues: culture, ethos and practice

Chapter 18-Smooth transitions

Chapter 19- Multi-agency working

Chapter 20- A business approach to leadership in early years

Biography

Sonia Blandford is CEO of Achievement for All and Professor of Education and Social Enterprise at IOE, UCL.

Catherine Knowles is a researcher at Achievement for All and a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick.