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    The Role of the Adult in Early Years Settings: Part 2

    by Janet Rose on

    Part 2 continues the journey of exploring our role in supporting young children’s learning and development.  It outlines the five remaining ‘selves’ of the ‘plural practitioner’ framework that encompass this role.  The ‘plural practitioner’ framewor…
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    A Reception Teacher's Blog

    by Iris Lark on

    Our new friend Iris Lark describes her return to reception class teaching, after a break of 10 years. Here she tells us about 'The Register'.
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    Thinking Approaches for the Reflective Professional

    by Ruksana Mohammed on

    Our aim as professionals is to achieve better outcomes for children, families and the community. We want to provide effective learning experiences for the children in our care, and strive for continuous quality improvement, but also want to ensure p…
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    Exploring practitioners' understanding of quality

    by Michelle Cottle on

    Michelle Cottle is a senior lecturer in early childhood studies at the University of Roehampton. Her article discusses some of the issues that may shape early years practitioners’ understandings of ‘quality’ within the context of their particular se…
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    Child Development: fact or fiction?

    by Rory McDowall Clark on

    Knowledge about child development is an important tool which enables practitioners to make appropriate provision for young children; but if we are not careful it can also be a dangerously limiting illusion that may actually hamper practice.
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    What's Critical About Critical Thinking?

    by Joy Chalke on

    Joy Chalke, principal lecturer in the School of Education and Continuing Studies at the University of Portsmouth, demonstrates and analyses some of the critical thinking skills required of students engaged in higher education courses.
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    The Role of the Adult in Early Years Settings: Part 1

    by Janet Rose on

    Janet Rose, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at Bath Spa University, explores the many different ways in which adults interact with young children in early years settings.  Research demonstrates that the heart of quality practice lies with…
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    A Reception Teacher's Blog (5)

    by Iris Lark on

    Iris tackles 'Show and Tell'....
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    Characteristics of Effective Learning: Creating and Thinking Criticall…

    by Martine Horvath on

    In the third and final article on the characteristics of effective learning, Martine Horvath outlines the essential components of critical thinking and how we can support children to develop their creativity.
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    Emotion Coaching -a new approach to supporting children's behaviour (P…

    by Janet Rose on

    In Part 1 we saw how Emotion Coaching offers a relational model for supporting children’s behaviour.  We compared Emotion Coaching to traditional behaviourist approaches and also to other styles of managing children’s behavior, such as a disapprovin…
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    A Reception Teacher's Blog (4)

    by Iris Lark on

    I teach in the Reception class on Wednesdays. This Wednesday I am in the middle of the usual early morning chaos in my house (me, a husband, two teenagers and a 9 year old all attempting to leave at approximately the same time – need I say more?) wh…
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    Aspects of Art: Sculpture

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    Here is the final article in the Aspects of Art series, looking at how children can be creative in 3D through sculpture. Working in three dimensions gives children the opportunity to practise skills such as planning and problem solving, fixing and j…
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    Donald Winnicott's Theories of Child Development: Their Relevance to B…

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    Donald Winnicott was a psychologist and psychoanalyst who worked predominantly with children and families.In 1957 he wrote that 'the nursery school is probably most correctly considered as an extension 'upward' of the family, rather than an extensio…
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    In conversation with Ruth Pimentel

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    Discussing the forthcoming Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) with the National Director for the Foundation Stage, Ruth Pimentel.
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    All About Clemmie: Part 2

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    Continuing Juliet Mickelburgh's diary of her daughter Clemmie's learning and development from her first birthday to her second.
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    All About Clemmie: Part 1

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    A mother's diary of her daughter Clemmie's development from birth to her first birthday. These snippets of Clemmie's learning and development were first published a few years ago as "Clemmie's Column". We republish them here as two articles for thos…
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    TEC2 Table Top Discussion ‘Reflective Practice and Approaching New Pol…

    by Ben Case on

    At our second Tapestry Education Conference (TEC 2) in November 2019 we held three table-top discussions led by members of the Early Years community. The theme was Reflecting on Curriculum Changes and we were joined by colleagues from the Tapestry …
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    Men in childcare, an ongoing debate

    by David Wright on

    For those of us interested in such matters, the received wisdom is that the number of men actually working with young children as part of the Early Years workforce in England represents around 2% of the total. This figure, despite much hand-wringin…
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    Beatrice Merrick's Keynote speech for TEC 2: A sector response to chan…

    by Jack Dabell on

    We were very happy to have Beatrice Merrick, Chief Executive of Early Education, give a Keynote speech at our second Tapestry Education Conference in November. Jack has written this summary of her talk, followed by a link so you can also watch Bea…
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    You are more than “just a teacher”

    by Sara Bonetti on

    Practitioners do excellent work that goes unnoticed, leading many to feel disconnected and retreat in their field or even their classroom. So, then, many convince themselves that they are “just teachers”. When you are in the classroom, aren’t …
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    A Reception Teacher's Blog (2)

    by Iris Lark on

    The Great Reception Bake Off. The day that I cover in Reception is cooking day. I embrace the learning of this valuable life skill at such a young age, and clearly the children do too as it is a very popular activity: oversubscribed in fact. It is…
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