Work in partnership in Early Years Settings
View the video which was produced by Teachers TV. The video looks at effective team building in a primary school. Watch the video and make notes. Is there anything that you can relate to your setting? What can you learn from watching the video?
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- 'Working in partnership with parents’ from the Professional Association for Childcare and Early Years (PACEY)
- 'Information sharing: Advice for practitioners providing safeguarding services to children, young people, parents and carers’
- 'Partnership working’ on the Foundation Years website
- 'Effective practice: Parents as partners’ by the Department for Education
- 'A guide for working with parents of children with Special Educational Needs or Disabilities (SEND)’ by 4 Children
- 'How to communicate effectively with your colleagues’ on the Uplift Events website
- 'Working together to safeguard children: A guide to inter-agency working to safeguard and promote the welfare of children’ by the HM Government
- 'Dealing with conflicting practitioners in the early years’ from Early Years Careers
- '9 tips on how to manage people in your nursery’ from the Nursery HR People website
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘Partnership working’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s second presentation on ‘Partnership pointers’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s third presentation on ‘Managing complaints.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- ‘Principles for engaging with families’ by the Early Learning Partnership and Parental Engagement Group. Click to read this framework for local authorities and national organisations to evaluate and improve engagement with families.
- This article by Dennis Sparks ‘Strong teams, strong schools’ looks at the benefits of good teamwork within a school. Many of the points are relevant for early years settings.
- This section of the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) contains a number of videos on how to build an effective team.
- The Business Balls website has an article called ‘Forming, Storming, Norming, and Performing: Understanding the Stages of Team Formation’ which looks at Bruce Tuckman’s simple model for building an effective team.
- This document from Gingerbread looks at ‘A practitioner’s role in supporting young single parents.
- Click on the link to read ‘Review of best practice in parental engagement’ produced by the Department for Education.
- This document ‘Building partnerships between parents and practitioners’ was produced by Aistear: the Early Childhood Curriculum Framework.
- ‘Partnership toolkit from the Family and Childcare Trust looks at some of the key factors for the success in working with parents and other professionals.
- Think And Challenge
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