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    Characteristics of Effective Learning: play and exploration in action

    by Ruksana Mohammed on

    Characteristics of Effective Learning (CoEL) are a revived element in the current Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum (EYFS). CoEL advocate that in planning and guiding children’s activities, practitioners must reflect on the different ways that …
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    Characteristics of Effective Learning: creating and thinking criticall…

    by Ruksana Mohammed on

    This article is the third and final in our series on the Characteristics of Effective Learning, following on from Play and Exploration in Action and Active Learning in Action.
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    Individuality Matters: The Curse of Development Checklists

    by Ruksana Mohammed on

    The use of milestones in the form of development checklists do not take on the individuality of each child. They are generic and imply that all children go through the sequential process. This article aims to introduce the concept of individuality of…
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    Creative Diaries: Taking a line for a walk

    by Ruksana Mohammed on

    The provision of mark making opportunities can help children develop imaginatively, creatively and physically. Mark making is important for many reasons. It is a visible way for children to tell stories and express feelings, record what they have to …
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    Capturing Children's Sparks

    by Ruksana Mohammed on

    It is often noted in literature that planning and teaching should be based around children’s interests. Through doing so, practitioners can enhance development and progress in each area of learning. The National Strategies for Early Years suggest tha…
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    'Listening to Young Children' Project

    by Ruksana Mohammed on

    ‘Listening’ in the early years is used to mean valuing and responding to children’s thoughts, ideas and feelings, offering genuine choice and involving children in decisions that affect their daily lives
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    Creative Diaries: Clay Work in the Early Years

    by Ruksana Mohammed on

    “Only through the arts and by being creative can children explore the inner world of their imagination and feeling – the world that is uniquely them”. Sir Ken Robinson, Patron of Earlyarts.   ‘One day a grandma was a parent helper teaching in one ar…
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    Choosing 'Next Steps' from your observations

    by Kathy Brodie on

    It is not always clear  how observations should be used to inform planning, assessments and evaluation of children's progress. Sometimes the huge array of choices can make choosing a next step a really confusing task.
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    Developing Sustained Shared Thinking to enhance the areas of Learning …

    by Kathy Brodie on

    In this article, Kathy Brodie focuses on how sustained shared thinking can support each of the Prime areas of learning and development, as defined by the EYFS – Communication and Language; Physical Development and Personal, Social and Emotional Devel…
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    Developing Sustained Shared Thinking to enhance the Specific areas of …

    by Kathy Brodie on

    Kathy Brodie examines how Sustained Shared Thinking can be used to enhance the four areas of learning and development in the EYFS known as the Specific Areas: Mathematics, Expressive Arts and Design, Literacy and Understanding the World.
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    Which Came First, the Forest or the School?

    by Sara Knight on

    Sara Knight, Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Anglia Ruskin University, discusses the historical meanings of "schooling" and their relevance to today's young children. She outlines four ways in which we learn, and explains her concerns …
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    Educational Pioneers: Loris Malaguzzi, 1920-1994

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    A brief history and summary of the theories and practical aspects of the Reggio Emilia approach. Malaguzzi had a deep sense of respect for children's ability to be partners in their own learning, and this is at the heart of the Reggio approach to edu…
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    Educational Pioneers: Maria Montessori, 1870-1952

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    In her lifetime, Maria Montessori was regarded as one of the foremost female educationalists and her legacy continues today in many Montessori schools worldwide.
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    Educational Pioneers: John Dewey, 1859-1952

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    Dewey partitioned childhood into different stages of development, the first stage being from the ages of four to eight years. He believed that during this period the key factors for successful learning were play, conversation, physical activity and s…
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    Educational Pioneers: Rudolf Steiner, 1861-1925

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    Like other educational theorists before him, Steiner divided childhood up into distinct phases. They fall in seven year cycles and are marked by physical changes in the child. He explained that the early years of childhood are a time of learning by b…
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    Educational Pioneers: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, 1746-1827

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    Pestalozzi realised that children feel safe and secure at home and that it was this atmosphere that was most conducive to learning. However, he founded a number of educational establishments as he was aware that not all children could spend time lear…
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    Educational Pioneers: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    Rousseau's understanding of the early years of child development as being a profound time in our lives is still relevant today. His appreciation of how much a child learns through finding things out for themselves, and of the role of observation and …
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    Child-initiated Learning

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    The last in a series of articles examining recent developments in our understanding of how children learn. Here, Juliet Mickelburgh looks at what is meant by child-initiated learning, its presence in the EYFS, and how it influences good early years p…
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    Schemas

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    What exactly are schemas, and how useful are they in providing the right learning environment for our very young children? This article brings together various definitions of schemas, followed by a brief description of named schemas and a discussion …
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    Preparing for good transition from Reception to Year 1

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    We all know that feeling of starting something new: a bit excited, probably quite anxious about where everything is and what is expected of us, worried about not knowing people, the nervous butterflies in the stomach that can range from a flutter t…
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    Educational Pioneers: Susan Isaacs, 1885-1948

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    Isaacs had a passionate belief in the place of nursery education in society. She felt that attending a nursery school should be a natural part of a child’s early life: the early years setting was a place that should both mirror the family through l…
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    Educational Pioneers: Friedrich Froebel, 1782-1852

    by Juliet Mickelburgh on

    As the name of his system of schooling suggests, the 'kindergarten' or 'children's garden' allowed time for outside play and experiencing nature. Froebel felt that play should have a purpose if the child was to learn from it. He devised specific pl…
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    Using Music to Support Learning in the EYFS

    by Mary E. Maunder on

    Mary E. Maunder suggests musical activities to support young children's learning and development.
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    The Importance of Young Children's Mark-making: Beginnings, Context, M…

    by Elizabeth Carruthers on

    Mark making has an important place in the development towards children's understanding of standard symbolic languages, for example mathematics and writing. This article discusses children's mark making with reference to practice and pedagogy parti…
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    Playful Pedagogy and Transitions in Children's Mathematics

    by Maulfry Worthington on

    The natural beginnings of written mathematics start within children's imaginative play. In this article, Maulfry Worthington describes children's mathematical graphics; children's own mathematical marks and representations, and gives examples colle…
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