The SSTEW Scale helps all those working with children aged two to six to achieve their full potential and enjoy the benefits and pleasure of delivering high quality early education and care.

The Quality Rating Scale (QRS) is a tool to uplift process quality in Early Childhood Education and Care and it is known to be predictive of child development. Using it to support quality improvement in a setting or class will result in enhancing children's learning and development.

Designed to measure and promote practice that supports children and adults engaging in sustained shared thinking (SST) and emotional well-being (EW), it facilitates the development of strong relationships, effective communication, self-regulation and concept development. It looks at the quality of interactions that occur between the adults and the children and between the children themselves. It also considers the responsiveness of the adults to the children and how they intentionally support children's play, learning and development.

It can be used by practitioners at all levels, helping them to take a systematic approach to self-assessment so that they can build on what they do well and improve where they need to. It is also an essential resource for measurement by researchers and those engaged in auditing settings.

This new edition includes updated information about the evidence-base for SSTEW and children's development and learning as well as new examples of practice and supplementary information accompanying the indicators. In addition, there is a stronger focus on formative assessment and new additions to the assessment section.

Online or face to face training can be set up via the authors' dedicated website https://birthtosevenmatters.co.uk/

Frequently asked questions

Simply head over to the account section in settings and click on “Cancel Subscription” - it’s as simple as that. After you cancel, your membership will stay active for the remainder of the time you’ve paid for. Learn more here.

At the moment all of our mobile-responsive ePub books are available to download via the app. Most of our PDFs are also available to download and we're working on making the final remaining ones downloadable now. Learn more here.

Both plans give you full access to the library and all of Perlego’s features. The only differences are the price and subscription period: With the annual plan you’ll save around 30% compared to 12 months on the monthly plan.

We are an online textbook subscription service, where you can get access to an entire online library for less than the price of a single book per month. With over 1 million books across 1000+ topics, we’ve got you covered! Learn more here.

Look out for the read-aloud symbol on your next book to see if you can listen to it. The read-aloud tool reads text aloud for you, highlighting the text as it is being read. You can pause it, speed it up and slow it down. Learn more here.

Yes, you can access The Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) Scale by Iram Siraj, Denise Kingston, Edward Melhuish in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Elementary Education. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

David Fulton Publishers

Year

2023

ISBN

9781000917956

Edition

Topic

Education

Subtopic

Elementary Education

Cover
Endorsement page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Foreword by Professor Kathy Sylva
Acknowledgements
About the authors
Introduction to the Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) Scale
Rationale for the development of the SSTEW Scale
Rationale for the second edition of the SSTEW Scale
The underlying principles of the SSTEW Scale
Aspects of child development and accompanying theories, relevant to the SSTEW Scale
The structure of the SSTEW Scale: principles and practice
Content of the SSTEW Scale
Preparing to use the SSTEW Scale
Subscale 1: Building trust, confidence and self-regulation
Subscale 2: Supporting and extending language and communication
Subscale 3: Supporting learning and critical thinking
Subscale 4: Planning and authentic assessment
The SSTEW Scale score sheet
Rough plan of indoor and outdoor areas being observed
Score sheets
The SSTEW Scale profile
Joint observation/inter-rater reliability for the SSTEW Scale
References