2nd Edition

Developing Professional Practice 0-7

By Sonia Blandford, Catherine Knowles Copyright 2016
    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 professional practice, including leadership and management, personalised learning and continuing professional development. There is also a strong focus on parent/carer engagement, setting accountability for the lowest attaining groups, the parent/carer and child voice in education, transition, SEND reform, early intervention, and developing leadership at all levels including as a business model.

    Readers can explore in-depth issues, and take ownership of them, by applying theory to real practice in schools and early years settings. Chapter contents are directly linked to the Early Years Teacher Standards, providing a clear understanding of how the content relates to competencies and allowing readers to reflect critically on best practice. Discussion points and case studies further connect theory to practice and offer a genuinely accessible and engaging introduction to supporting the education of babies, toddlers and young children. 

    This vibrant, dynamic and interactive approach uses examples of real practice, along with a range of additional features tailored to support the reader in developing their knowledge, skills and understanding. Developing Professional Practice 0-7 is essential reading for anyone training to work in the early years, and an invaluable resource for all those already in the early stages of their careers.

    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.