This book is a comprehensive resource full of practical activities and games for the under threes. As well as providing a wealth of activities for pre-school children this book maps out exactly how each activity relates to the child's development. An essential guide to the importance of play, each activity also links to one of the Early Learning Goals.
The second edition of this bestselling guide shows how parents and practitioners can offer children adventure and challenge without risking their safety.
Interprofessional working is integral to an integrated workforce supporting children. This book turns interprofessional rhetoric into reality.
This fully updated edition helps practitioners in understanding the distinction in the 2012 revised EYFS between the prime and specific areas of development for one-year olds. It considers key issues in a well-rounded assessment of individual ones and includes a useful checklist to help practitioners prepare for the assessment of ones. This book gives advice on how to: use sensory materials to develop motor skills; best encourage communication skills, and the importance of chatting to even very young babies; and support babies when upset and along their journey towards self-regulation.
The fully updated edition helps early years practitioners to: understand the distinction in the 2012 revised Early Years Foundation Stage between prime and specific areas of development for two-year olds; explore how the development of young children from vulnerable families may be affected by their experience; and consider key issues in a well-rounded assessment of individual twos.The book includes a useful checklist which breaks down the twos assessment for practitioners.
Setting the experiences of 8- to 18-year-olds within a practical framework, this classic practical guide describes the main changes for children as they grow from middle childhood to adulthood.
This classic text is invaluable for anyone who needs practical information on under eights and their development, including parents who want to know more about how children learn and develop and practitioners working with young children. It looks at how adults can help children as they change and develop. It describes what children learn from birth to eight and how they change in the different aspects of their development and aims to make sense of their development. This best-selling book is recommended reading on many childcare courses.
This title addresses the challenge of developing an awareness of each child's needs and interests in your setting, and planning accordingly. The book covers: supporting others in their planning and leading change, the reason for planning and how to develop professional planning skills.
"Updated in accordance with the 2012 Early Years Foundation Stage."