Management
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Environmental Awareness in Your Early Years Setting
Environmental Awareness in Your Early Years Setting It’s becoming increasingly important for us all to be more environmentally aware,...
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30 Hours Free Childcare – But At What Cost?
As countless childcare settings face financial issues and even closure, including her own, author, teacher and teacher trainer,...
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Using Appraisals in Early Years Settings
Using appraisals in early years settings, specifically a clearly structured and well-run appraisals system, is a great tool...
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Reflect, Develop, Improve – Sue Cowley Talks Setting Self-Evaluation
The key to improvement for any early years setting lies in reflective practice. The more that you and...
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Why Bother? Early Years Assessment in Practice
Seen by many as a chore, early years assessment is at its least attractive when it is regarded...
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Early Years Observation in the Spotlight
In any typical early years setting, childcare professionals will be making informal observations most of the time. Except...
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Men in Childcare & the Implications of Gender Bias in Early Years Settings
Having seen the meagre proportion of men in childcare in New Zealand’s early childhood workforce slide from just...
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Risky Play – The Balance Between Caution & Hazard
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.” ― Louisa May Alcott...
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The Changing Face of Continued Personal & Professional Development
Kathy Brodie is a well known and respected influential childcare author. Here she gives her views on the...
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A Modern Paranoia: Perspectives on Risk
“A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.”...
