Achieving Early Years Professional Status

2. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4462-5538-4
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 192 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

Encompassing the Teaching Agency 2012 new-era EYPS standards, this new edition provides up-to-date advice and guidance grounded in current reading, research and government policy for all those training to achieve Early Years Professional Status (EYPS).



The new edition features:

- the Teaching Agency (2012) EYPS national standards

- the new-era EYPS assessment process

- explicit information on the new-era EYPS national requirements

- ideas and examples of early years leadership and practice

- more on how to manage change.



The book offers support to those on all four pathways to achieve EYPS:

- Undergraduate Entry Pathway (UEP)

- Undergraduate Practitioner Pathway (UPP)

- Graduate Entry Pathway (GEP)

- Graduate Practitioner Pathway (GPP).



Each chapter includes case studies, photographs illustrating practice, reflective practice tasks and suggested further reading and useful Websites. Journal articles linked to each chapter are available to read online via the SAGE website.



Denise Reardon is Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) Programme Director at Canterbury Christ Church University.



'Denise's second edition of Achieving Early Years Professional Status is every bit as readable and useful as its forerunner. Updated to reflect both the 2012 EYPS Standards and current government policy, including on safeguarding, this book offers us a menu of engaging explanatory accounts and insights that both support and challenge aspiring and existing Early Years Professionals, so that they can better reflect on their own and others' practice and take positive actions to improve the life chances of our youngest children.' - Maureen Lee, Programme Leader for EYPS and Director of Early Years, Best Practice Network

Zielgruppe

The book offers support to those on all pathways to achieve EYPS

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reardon, Denise

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Lehrerausbildung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Vorschul- und Kindergartenpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Getting Started - An Introduction to the new era Early Years Professional Status
What Is the EYPS Process?
The EYP Role to Lead Practice and Foster a Culture of Continuous Improvement
What Is Effective Practice?
Practicing, Leading and Supporting Others to Deliver Assessment Arrangements, Routines and Communication, Language and Literacy
Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children Aged 0-5 years
Promoting Rights, Inclusion and Anti-Discriminatory Practice For Children Aged 0-5 Years
Working Directly with Children and in Partnership with their Families and Carers
Leading Practice and Fostering a Culture of Continuous Development
Orientation to the New Era EYPS Formative Assessment Process: The Development and Progress Review
Orientation to the New Era EYPS Summative Assessment Process
Orientation to the New Era EYPS Summative Assessment Process: The Setting Visit and the Final Stage Interview
Concluding Commentary
Glossary
Standards for the Award of Early Years Professional Status (Teaching Agency, July 2012)
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Reardon, Denise
Denise Reardon is an established author who has been successfully involved in early years teaching, training and lecturing for over 30 years. She has taught early years children in nurseries and schools and worked as a Local Authority Early Years Advisory Teacher. She has also been instrumental in leading a wide number of national early years initiatives and programmes spanning both further education (Canterbury and North-West Kent) and the higher education sector (Canterbury Christchurch University), She has successfully written and co-authored foundation, bachelors and Master degrees for early years teachers, educators and practitioners. Her Masters dissertation in Education Leadership explores team working and was used to inform previous publications of this book. Denise has recently retired from being the Early Years Teacher, Programme Director at Canterbury Christchurch University to concentrate on her writing, three early years grandchildren and now sits on the ‘Early Years Teacher’ advisory board at Middlesex University and is a member of the world Preschool Association (OMEP) an international non – governmental and non-profit organisation with consultative status at the United Nations and UNESCO. Denise has a particular interest in early years creativity and the evolving role of the Early Years teacher.
Denise Reardon, Dilys Wilson and Dympna Fox Reed will be discussing ideas from Early Years Teaching and Learning in Doing Your Early Years Research Project, a SAGE Masterclass for early years students and practitioners in collaboration with Kathy Brodie. Find out more here.