The Key Issues series is written by experts, addressing some of the major challenges facing Early Years settings and Primary Schools.
The titles aim to provide sound, clear advice, to help practitioners and teachers deliver the objectives of the Every Child Matters Report.
This Pack includes the following 8 titles:
Assessment for Learning in the Foundation Stage
This exciting new title comes under the 'Every Child Matters' remit and explains in a practical way, what assessment for learning entails and how it can be successfully implemented in the EYFS. Assessment for learning (A4L) is a teaching strategy that helps children appraise their own work and gain understanding of how they need to progress.
Sustaining Shared Thinking Sustaining Shared Thinking contains a rich mixture of practical experience, research and relevant government guidance, brought to life with examples and suggestions. It brings together theories and ideas related to thinking skills, explains what these thinking skills are and why they are important, and shows how they link with current curriculum guidance. This book addresses some of the major challenges facing early years settings and primary schools, and shows what opportunities and experiences for developing shared thinking skills may look like in individual settings. The aim is to provide sound,clear advice and to help practitioners and teachers deliver the objectives of Every Child Matters.
Problem Solving
Problem Solving is one of the key thinking skills and is vital for successful learning. This fully revised edition will help you to understand the importance of developing a problem solving approach and what you can do to develop young children's problem solving skills. It shows how problem solving activities and discussions can happen everywhere in a setting, helping children to use their critical thinking skills in problems and challenges relevant to their interests and their stage of development.
Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
Why do boys and girls behave differently? Why do most boys read and write later than girls? Why do boys never seem to listen? Avoid gender stereotypes. This book explains how and why boys and girls brains differ, how that affects their learning and what you can do about it.
Stimulating Creativity and Enquiry
The Key Issues series addresses some of the major challenges facing early years settings and primary schools. This new title looks at how, through questioning, practitioners can promote a more personalised learning led curriculum which is driven and led by learner's interests and thoughts. It will provide practical examples to inspire practitioners to focus on the use of questioning in their setting and it will highlight how all the strands of the EYFS can be covered through enquiry-based learning.
This Pack Also Includes: Young Boys and Their Writing
Working with Parents
Philosophy for Children
