Review own knowledge of learning and development for early years practice
In this tutorial you will learn:
- About the areas of learning and development
- How children’s individual progress is monitored
- About using different sources to plan work for an individual child or group of children
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- Use the internet to find the relevant early years framework for your UK Home Nation and read through each of the areas of learning and development.
- 'Early years foundation stage profile handbook’ on the Gov.UK website
- ‘In the moment planning’ from the Early Years Staffroom website
- 'Development Matters in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)’ from The British Association for Early Childhood Education
- 'Sustained Shared Thinking’ by Kathie Brodie on the Teach Early Years website
- 'Developing Sustained Shared Thinking to enhance the areas of Learning and development – Prime areas’ from the Early Years Foundation Stage Forum
- 'Improving communication, language and literacy in the early years’ on the Research Schools Network website
- 'Talking about maths’ from Teach Early Years
- 'Challenging practice to further improve learning, playing and interacting in the Early Years Foundation Stage’ from the Foundations Years website
- 'How to use open-ended questions in the early years’ on the Famly website
- Presentation
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘Evaluating activities’.
- Click to launch this lesson’s presentation on ‘Implementing and evaluating plans to support learning and development'.
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click to read ‘Tracking pupil progress in the early years’ on the TES website.
- This article from Croner-I covers ‘Supporting language development in the early years’.
- Click to read this article ‘Child development and early learning’ from the NCBI website.
- ‘Principles for early years education’ covers working with parents, and promoting children’s learning. Make sure you read the section on ‘Learning and teaching’.
- The Australian Inclusion and Professional Support Program has produced ‘What is sustained shared thinking: Is it important?’
- ‘Active learning in the early years’ supports personal reflection to support a more active approach to learning and development. It was produced to support the Scottish curriculum but the ideas are applicable in all UK Home Nations.
- Read this article ‘8 ways to plan the perfect learning environment in early years’ from Teach Wire. Is there anything you can learn from the alternative way of organising the environment?
- Think And Challenge
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