Early Years Resources
Behaviour Management: Getting it Right in a Week
Workable strategies, tips and advice for busy teachers who want to address low level disruption and improve behaviour in their classroom.
Creativity: Getting it Right in a Week
Practical guidance on creative teaching, teaching for creativity and creative learning for all busy teachers.
Early Years Placements
A Critical Guide to Outstanding Work-based Learning
A key text for all those undertaking placements or work-based learning in early years settings.
International Perspectives on Early Years Workforce Development
An examination of the current structure of the early childhood education and care workforce in different countries, each of which represents a distinct philosophical tradition.
Language, Literacy and Communication in the Early Years:
A critical foundation
An essential text for students and practitioners on the development and acquisition of language and literacy in the early years.
Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children 4-11 Years
Helps trainees and teachers to identify and support primary-aged children with mental health needs, providing a range of evidence-based tools.
Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Young Children 0-5 Years
Essential support for all trainees and practitioners working in early years contexts, helping them to understand and mitigate against the risk factors of mental health needs in children from birth to 5.
Mentoring: Getting it Right in a Week
Compact guide to effective mentoring for busy teachers and school leaders.
Observing Children and Families
Beyond the Surface
This book explains the unique insights that child observation can bring to practice with children and families and helps the reader develop their own skills in this approach.
Professional Dialogues in the Early Years
Rediscovering early years pedagogy and principles
This book provides early years teacher educators with critical guidance to explore the enduring philosophies and principles of early years’ pedagogy and to creatively interpret and communicate these to those they are training to be teachers and professionals.
Teaching and Learning Early Years Mathematics
Subject and Pedagogic Knowledge
Essential reading for all those teaching or training to teach Early Years mathematics, providing comprehensive subject and pedagogic knowledge for those responsible for the youngest children in school and their vital first experiences of learning mathematics.
The Critical Years
Early Years Development from Conception to 5
A book that brings up to date theory and understanding of child development in the early years into the workplace.
Studying for your Policing Degree
Essential reading for all those undertaking a policing or other law enforcement professional degree within higher education, providing study support, skills and strategies to ensure success.
Classroom Talk
Written for teachers, this concise guide takes an evidence-based approach to oracy / classroom talk with practical advice on how to engage with and evaluate the ideas explored.
What Every Parent Should Know About Education
How knowing the evidence can help your child succeed
A walk through all the most important issues in education, comparing commonly-held beliefs with simple summaries of the evidence, providing you with clear, jargon-free information.
Academic Writing and Referencing for your Policing Degree
An essential text for all those undertaking a policing degree within higher education, providing study support and skills development for academic writing and referencing.
Critical Thinking Skills for your Policing Degree
An essential text for all those undertaking a policing degree within higher education, providing study support and skills development for critical thinking, reading and writing.