Teaching and Learning in the Early Years

David Whitebread, Penny Coltman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317936107
• Edition: 4
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This best-selling text book provides a broad-ranging and up-to-date review of thinking and best practice within nursery and infant education. Written around the basic truth that an effective early years curriculum must start with the children, their needs and their potential, the contributors to this classic text acknowledge that learning must have a strong element of fun, wonder and excitement.

Fully revised and updated in light of recent changes to the Early Years curriculum, with brand new chapters on assessment, communication, writing, creativity and diversity, the contributors address a range of fundamental issues and principles, including:

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• an analysis of research into how children learn;

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• discussions of issues such as classroom organisation, curriculum management, and assessment;

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• a detailed section on play and language;

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• chapters covering individual curriculum areas, including new chapters on music and PSHE.

Each chapter combines a review of important principles with practical and inspiring classroom examples throughout. It is essential reading for all Foundations Stage and KS1 trainee teachers, their tutors and mentors, and serving teachers working in the 3-7 age range who wish to reflect upon and develop their practice.

Index

• access issues 107, 114
• accountability 57
• active learning 9, 13, 26, 58, 62–6, 75, 79
• active play 214–15
• African Caribbean students 327, 339
• After the Storm 149
• AlphaBlocks 296
• Anghileri, Julia 289, 290, 292
• animals: chick hatching experience 77–85
  • imaginary 277
  • interactive story-making 149
  • observation for assessment 90
  • outdoor learning 96, 97–8, 99–100, 109, 278
• apps 295–6, 298, 301, 303–4
• Aristotle 142
• Arnold, Amy 77–92, 269
• art: creativity 246
  • fashion show project 70
  • materials 45
  • outdoor learning 104–5, 112
• art gallery project 60, 63–4, 68, 74
• artefacts 31, 61, 163, 277 see also objects
• articulation of learning 29
• assessment 52–3, 71–2, 75, 77–92, 348
  • Baseline Assessment 327
  • chick hatching experience 77–85
  • child self-assessment 29, 85–6
  • feedback 86–7
  • holistic 89–91
  • learning environment 87–8
  • physical development 226
  • reading 174
• assistive technologies 306
• ateliers 252, 350...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Table Of Contents
• Teaching and Learning in the Early Years
• Acknowledgements
• A Basic principles and approaches
• B Play and language
• C The wider curriculum
• D The way forward
• Index