Summary
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Covering all routes to early years teaching, this essential textbook provides students and practitioners with everything they need to know to deliver outstanding Early Years practice. Previously titled Achieving Early Years Professional Status, this new edition is completely revised to include recent research and practice guidance for those studying: - Early Years Teacher Status - Teach First Early Years - Early Years Educator - Early Years PGCE New case studies, illustrating best practice, make this text highly relevant for experienced professionals teaching and leading practice in Early Years settings and schools, and anyone interested in helping Early Years children learn and develop. Journal articles linked to each chapter are available at https://study.sagepub.com/education. Denise Reardon, Dilys Wilson and Dympna Fox Reed will be discussing ideas from Early Years Teaching and Learning in Doing Your Early Years Research Project, a SAGE Masterclass for early years students and practitioners in collaboration with Kathy Brodie. Find out more here.
High-Quality Early Years Teaching and Learning
High-Quality Early Years Teaching and Learning
Chapter overview
The chapter aims to help the reader develop a broad understanding of the term ‘high-quality’ teaching and learning in the Early Years (EY) and why it is so hard to pin down a universal definition. The chapter encourages the reader to critically question and explore the perceptions of a wide range of stakeholders, for example trainee EYT/Es, teachers, EY practitioners, parents, carers, children themselves, the community at large, governments and Local Authorities (LA) etc. The concept of Quality Assurance (QA) in the early years is examined by looking through the lens of a number of approaches designed to ensure the quality of EY practice. For the sake ...
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