100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners: Outstanding Practice

by Lucy Peet

Overview

Working in the early years can be challenging, but to be outstanding in the early years can be even more difficult. This book contains 100 easily to implement ideas to transform your planning, practice and setting from good to outstanding in a flash! Full of tips to promote children's independence, stimulate their creative thinking, develop a sense of calm and maintain a structured environment, this book is an excellent tool for those new to working with this age range as well as more experienced practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472906359
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/24/2013
Series:	100 Ideas for the Early Years
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	565 KB

About the Author

Lucy Peet is a talented and imaginative early years advanced skills teacher with 19 years' experience working with 0-8 years olds. She is currently deputy head of an outstanding infant school and she has modelled practice across the county and received outstanding judgements from Ofsted for both her teaching and leadership. She believes above all that working in the early years should be fun for both the children and the practitioner and this comes through in her accessible writing style and original ideas.

Table of Contents

1 Know your place
2 Helping Hands
3 Line up! Line up!
4 Bonjour, Monsieur!
5 But I'm hungry now!
6 I can put my coat on!
7 Tidy up music
8 Cloakroom monitors – Four at a time, please!
9 Topical groups
10 Singing the register
11 Quiet please!
12 Coloured words
13 Personal placemats
14 Shy in shared reading
15 Show and tell
16 This is my culture
17 That's my spot!
18 Fidgeting about!
19 What's mine is my own!
20 Who's taken my red pen, AGAIN?
21 Pick a pencil case!
22 Graffiti table
23 Roll up, roll up!
24 Chalk maps
25 Tidy silhouettes
26 Encouraging independent writing
27 Easy display of writing
28 Easy painty writing
29 Colour mixing for the squeamish!
30 Invisible graffiti
31 Sign up, sign up!
32 It's my turn next!
33 What do I need to take home?
34 That's my job!
35 No room!
36 Pass it on!
37 Listen carefully
38 Shadow maps
39 Coordinating coordinates!
40 Amateur archaeologists
41 Iceberg ahoy!
42 Stained ice windows
43 Marshmallow igloos
44 Cereal castles
45 Sliding shapes
46 What am I?
47 Washing line pictures
48 Which one am I?
49 It's all in the detail!
50 Hear it, draw it
51 Eat the alphabet
52 Waiter, waiter!
53 Hard hat helpers
54 Traffic lights
55 Show me, show me!
56 Hold it up!
57 Hungry Zippy
58 Clever Cow
59 Clock watching
60 Trust me, tell me
61 I can read that!
62 Noise slider
63 Counting sounds
64 Response partners
65 Stars in their eyes
66 Jigsaw experts
67 Remember, remember
68 Medical needs
69 Going home timetable
70 Topical help
71 Odd one out
72 Dotty about the dot chart
73 Standing straight!
74 My button family
75 Character 'king of the castle'
76 Let's go fishing
77 Size doesn't matter – shape does!
78 Bingo!
79 Guess who!
80 Make a shape!
81 The first one to fetch…
82 Outdoor motoring maths
83 Listening, turning, pointing…'Over there!'
84 Stand on something… blue!
85100 square outdoor bingo
86 Outdoor orienteering
87 Posting postcards
88 The moving bus
89 The free workforce!
90 Personal effects
91 Get ready for summer!
92 What's on the whiteboard today?
93 Observing in order
94 Planning for everyone
95 Involving parents/carers
96 Morning challenges
97 Journey sticks
98 Sticky colour strips
99 My tree
100 People lines

Editorial Reviews

“With its accessible layout and simple format, 100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners – Outstanding Practice provides an invaluable toolkit for practitioners everywhere. Short quotes from adults and children introduce each idea, and the solutions are presented in a simple, no-nonsense style that will appeal to every reader, from the newly qualified to 'old hands' among us. When you buy it, write your name in it – all your colleagues will want to borrow it!” —Sally Featherstone, early years consultant and author

“This is a brilliant buy that will not only help promote children's independence but will encourage a sense of calm in your setting and help to maintain a structured learning environment through fun active learning wherever you are.” —Eye

“This is a must-have book for any aspiring 'outstanding' setting, an invaluable reference tool, written by a talented early years advanced teacher. This book is fresh and original with ideas that are easy to implement. It is packed with tips to promote independence and learning in a calm environment and is invaluable for any setting striving to achieve 'outstanding' practice.” —Practical Pre-School

“Just like a pocket-sized assistant! A nice little book with a wide range of ideas, tips and activities, including great extension content to support the EYFS effectively. Well explained, interesting and good value for money. All nursery practitioners should have one.” —Practical Pre-School Awards

From the Publisher

Just like a pocket-sized assistant! A nice little book with a wide range of ideas, tips and activities, including great extension content to support the EYFS effectively. Well explained, interesting and good value for money. All nursery practitioners should have one.

Practical Pre-School Awards

This is a must-have book for any aspiring 'outstanding' setting, an invaluable reference tool, written by a talented early years advanced teacher. This book is fresh and original with ideas that are easy to implement. It is packed with tips to promote independence and learning in a calm environment and is invaluable for any setting striving to achieve 'outstanding' practice.

Practical Pre-School

This is a brilliant buy that will not only help promote children's independence but will encourage a sense of calm in your setting and help to maintain a structured learning environment through fun active learning wherever you are.

Eye

With its accessible layout and simple format, 100 Ideas for Early Years Practitioners - Outstanding Practice provides an invaluable toolkit for practitioners everywhere. Short quotes from adults and children introduce each idea, and the solutions are presented in a simple, no-nonsense style that will appeal to every reader, from the newly qualified to 'old hands' among us. When you buy it, write your name in it - all your colleagues will want to borrow it!

early years consultant and author Sally Featherstone