Teaching and Learning in the Early Years
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How can we help children to become independent learners?The third edition of this invaluable companion for Early Years practitioners provides a broad-ranging and up-to-date review of current thinking and best practice within Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 education. Based on the basic truth that an effective Early Years curriculum must start with the children, this book focuses on their needs and their potential. The best teaching must have a strong element of fun, wonder and excitement: David Whitebread and Penny Coltman show how play is a crucial part of this.Each chapter combines a review of important principles with practical and inspiring classroom examples. This third edition has been fully revised and updated in light of the introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage, and includes completely new chapters concerned with classroom organisation to support independent learning, outdoor learning, speaking and listening and mathematics in the early years. The authors review all major areas of the Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 curriculum and a range of basic issues and principles, including:an analysis of current research into how children learndiscussions of general issues such as classroom organisation, curriculum management, and assessmenta detailed section on play and languagechapters covering individual curriculum areas across all six Foundation Stage areas of learning and across the areas of the Key Stage 1 National CurriculumThe book is essential reading for all Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 trainee teachers, their tutors and mentors, and serving teachers working with children in the three to seven age range wishing to reflect upon and develop their practice.
List of figuresContributorsAcknowledgementsPreface1Introduction: young children learning and early years teaching12Spinning the plates: organising the early years classroom253'My mum would pay anything for chocolate cake!' Organising the whole curriculum: enterprise projects in the early years594'We are passing the smile around,' Personal, social and health education in the early years855'Is it like the school bus?' Assessment in the early years1176'It is only a story, isn't it? Interactive story-making in the early years classroom1377'Is there a seven in you name?' Writing in the early years1578'What's that dog thinking, Mrs. Bromley?' Picture books and learning to read1779'Penguias never meet polar bears,' Reading for information in the early years19310'How do I do this better?' From movement development into physical education21111'Can I play the drum, Miss?' Music in the early years22912'Oh, I'm just IN LOVE with those pots.' Young children's art24713'How many toes has a newt?' Science in the early years26914'Maths - is that a kind of game for grown-ups?' Understanding number in the early years28315'PLEASE can we have another bit?' Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the early years: an emergent approach30316'Mrs Rainbow told us what things were like when she went to school,' History in the early years32117'If the world is round, how come the piece I'm standing on is flat?' Early years geography34118Whatever next? Future trends in early years education363Index377
