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.
Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Assessment
An accessible, carefully researched, quick-read on assessment for early career teachers, linked to the new ECF.
In the Zone
Helping children rise to the challenge of learning
In the Zone argues that challenge is an essential element of true learning, without which there can be no progress. It brings together supportive materials to encourage teachers to reflect on their present practice, take sensible risks with their teaching, and understand the importance of enjoyment and engagement for both teachers and pupils.
Understanding and Developing Positive Behaviour in Schools
A key guide on behaviour, the number one concern for most early career teachers, providing a range of research informed and road-tested strategies to support the development of positive classroom systems and structures.
What Every Parent Should Know About Education
How knowing the facts 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.
RISK
Signposting better choices to more adventurous teaching
Go on! You can do it!
This book follows on from David Gumbrell’s text LIFT!, arguing that when you are feeling more resilient you have the courage and confidence to take more risks. You can also calculate that risk more rationally, thereby making it less risky and more likely to result in success.