Drawing on analysis of children at home and in school, including transcripts of conversations at home, and teachers’ notes based on their observations and response to each child’s school experiences, Bridie Raban presents a cutting-edge insight into the adjustment of the first experience of school, reflected against the background of home life.
Strong Foundations addresses policy requirements from the Early Years Learning Framework, the National Quality Standard and Quality Improvement Plans, highlighting links between research and practice, and making connections to the five EYLF Learning Outcomes. The book showcases evidence from Australian and international research.
Written to provide a point of reference in relation to the assessment for learning process described in the Early Years Learning Framework. Chapters deal with different aspects of the process, focusing on documentation, planning, evaluation, assessment and reflection. Each can be seen as separate, but all aspects need to be put in place to ensure that each child's learning is fostered through rich and stimulating experiences. Different early childhood settings will approach this in different ways. There is no one set format that will suit all purposes or occasions, and so each section concludes with things to think about that will help you and your colleagues decide how to set about these activities in ways that best reflect your philosophy, your children and their families, and the communities you engage with and belong to.
This book has been designed especially for Early childhood professional working in Victorian early childhood setting, and their committees, as well as professionals in other settings, states and territories .
Noting that conversation between adults and young children is a well-known stimulus to language development, but that conversation is seldom fully used in the classroom, this paper argues that conversations can and should be used more. It presents a range of research findings and classroom examples to support that argument. Chapter 1 examines the role of talk in the learning process and chapter 2 discusses Vygotsky's theory of sign operations and cognitive development. Chapter 3 explains Bruner's thesis of a Language Acquisition Support System. Examples of literacy activities in the classroom are presented in chapter 4. Chapter 5 examines the role of teacher-child conversation in the development of writing skills in a study of children during their first formal year of schooling. Chapter 6 offers an example of how a young child uses spoken language to control such mental processes as attention and memory and uses these skills in the process of learning written language. The final chapter proposes that teachers develop a familiarity with their students that is tied to classroom activities and situations in order to encourage more productive types of talk in the educational setting. (TJQ)
This book provides early childhood professionals with a practical guide for interpreting and implementing Belonging, Being and Becoming - The Early Years Framework for Australia. The information is of value to anyone who is concerned about early childhood education and learning - educator, manager, student or parent." -- cover.
Role play is a rich and often undervalued area of play in which children are able to explore situations from their own or another person's perspective. This book covers every aspect of role playing, with scenarios linked to the five learning outcomes in the EYLF, to supporting play and helping children create their own props to encourage free-flow play."--Publisher.
Learning through play is at the heart of the EYLF, and this series gives Early Years teachers and professionals as many play ideas as possible to support children's learning.
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