Lead children’s early education and development
In this tutorial you will learn:
- That assessment plays an important part in helping parents, carers, and practitioners to recognise children’s progress, understand their needs and to plan activities and support
- That good planning is the key to making children’s learning effective, exciting, varied and progressive
- That planning should include all children, including those with additional needs
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)’ from the British Association for Early Childhood Education.
- 'Early years foundation stage profile handbook’ from Standards and Testing Agency
- 'Study of Early Education and Development: Good practice in early education: Research report’ from the UK government.
- 'Effective child-initiated learning in the EYFS’ from the School Leaders website.
- 'Teaching phonics: information for schools’ from Gov.uk
- 'Cultural and societal influences on child development’ on the Boundless website.
- 'Observation, Assessment and Planning' on the Early Years Matters website
- 'Progress Matters: Reviewing and enhancing children’s development’
- 'Overview – characteristics of effective learning, and areas of learning and development' from the Birth to 5 Matters website
- 'Early years practitioners’ from the Speech and Language UK website
- 'Developing Sustained Shared Thinking to enhance the areas of Learning and development – Prime areas’ on the Early Years Foundation Stage Forum
- 'The importance of group play for early years children’ on the First Discoverers website
- 'Mathematical problem solving in the early years: Developing opportunities, strategies and confidence’ on the NRICH website
- 'Early Years Pedagogy' on the Twinkl website
- 'Pedagogy in early childhood education and care (ECEC): an international comparative study of approaches and policies’ by the Department for Education
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘A quick guide to learning preferences and theorists'.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on 'Review play opportunities'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Pedagogy in early childhood education and care (ECEC): an international comparative study of approaches and policies’ from the Department for Education.
- This document from Brighton and Hove City Council gives some ‘Guidelines for mathematics in the early years foundation stage’.
- ‘Bloom's taxonomy’ was developed to provide a common language for teachers to discuss and exchange learning and assessment methods’. This reading material from the University of Central Florida provides clear definitions for each of the six key phases, including a series of useful teaching methods and formative and summative assessment prompts.
- This article from the Novak Djokovic Foundation examines ‘Using Bloom’s Taxonomy Questioning to Extend Preschoolers’ Thinking’.
- Read this document from Education Scotland 'Lets talk about pedagogy' which is part of a series of occasional papers on early years education.
- Click to read the section on ‘Play, development and learning’ from the Play England document ‘Free play in early childhood: A literature review’.
- Click to read through the ‘Early Years Toolkit’ from the Education Endowment Foundation, and examine some of the strategies available there.
- Think And Challenge
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