Understand working relationships in Early Years
Click to watch this video on Healthy Conflict Resolution by psychologist Gwen Randall Young on the YouTube website.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Communicating with others'
- ‘Developing positive relationships with parents’ from the National Day Nurseries Association (NDNA).
- ‘Difference between working and personal relationships’ from the Difference between website’
- ‘Staff morale’ from the Teach Early Years website
- ‘Dealing with conflicting practitioners in the early years’ from the Early Years Careers website.
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Click on the icon to the left to read 'Conflict resolution skills' from the Helpguide website. The article aims to help build skills that can turn conflicts into opportunities.
- If you feel it would help your working practice ask for some training in your workplace or see if there is an external course in conflict resolution available.
- Take some time to create a list of conflicts that have occurred in your setting and those that you could see occurring. Try to write a process for resolving them, discussing your ideas with a trusted colleague, your line manager or your tutor to see if your process would result in a successful resolution.
- You may wish to work through this free course called ‘Thinking about how I work with other professionals’ which is part of the Open Learn resource provided by the Open University.
- This article is called ‘Ask a Childcare Advisor: Managing challenging issues with families’ and looks at issues, challenges and conflicts in childcare. It was written for the National Childcare Accreditation Council in Australia.
- Extended Learning
- Extended Learning
- Think And Challenge
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