The Early Years Foundation Stage demands, and research into early childhood recommends, focussing on children's interests in order to deliver the best quality learning experiences. How this works in practice in busy group and home settings however can be difficult to manage. However, this title from Jennie Lindon is designed to enable early years practitioners to understand how to balance child-initiated and adult-led experiences and how to plan to follow children's individual interests. Child-Initiated Learning explores what child-initiated and adult-led learning mean and features best practice advice on how to: put children s interests at the centre of your practice, balance child-initiated and adult-led learning, manage your role and be a partner in play, create the right emotional environment for learning to take place, incorporate sustained shared thinking, lead a child-focussed approach, plan for learning within the EYFS that really pays off for children, promote active first-hand experiences and carry out observations to follow children s interests. This advice will ensure practitioners and setting managers alike deliver learning which has children's needs at the heart of its practice.
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Jennie Lindon an experienced writer in the field of early years education, having written over 30 titles. Her background is in child psychology and she has worked as a chartered psychologist during a career of over thirty years in early years education Jennie has been involved with a very wide range of settings and services within early years care, education, playwork and out-of-school care, as well as residential and foster care.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Child Initiated Learning is one of a series of books published by Practical Preschool as part of their "Positive relationships in Early Years" series. The books are set out in a clear A4 format, with easy to follow layout and line illustrations. Their aim is to provide clear advice on best practice in early years.
Child initiated learning is a very practical book and would appeal to practitioners who want to know more about developing their skills in supporting child focused work, but who may be overwhelmed by alot of the jargon used in more official guidance. At the same time however, there is enough information to offer fresh ideas and approaches for even the most experienced early years professional.
The book is easy to read in one sitting, or as time to read without interruption is a luxury in most early year's environments, it is good to know the format also allows for picking up and putting down reads! There are clear explanations of terms commonly used, including very clear definitions of child initiated and adult led activities, and to help illustrate this, there are plenty of examples of practice to reinforce learning.
I have really enjoyed reading this book and making use of the examples to ensure a good mix of child initiated and adult led opportunities for learning. It has also helped me in explaining these concepts to parents and takes the worry out of the early years curriculum planning.
Child initiated learning is a very practical book and would appeal to practitioners who want to know more about developing their skills in supporting child focused work, but who may be overwhelmed by alot of the jargon used in more official guidance. At the same time however, there is enough information to offer fresh ideas and approaches for even the most experienced early years professional.
The book is easy to read in one sitting, or as time to read without interruption is a luxury in most early year's environments, it is good to know the format also allows for picking up and putting down reads! There are clear explanations of terms commonly used, including very clear definitions of child initiated and adult led activities, and to help illustrate this, there are plenty of examples of practice to reinforce learning.
I have really enjoyed reading this book and making use of the examples to ensure a good mix of child initiated and adult led opportunities for learning. It has also helped me in explaining these concepts to parents and takes the worry out of the early years curriculum planning.
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By rock_chick
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As I trainee I found this book really helpful in both explaining the concept of child-initiated learning and showing how this is achieved in the classroom. It allowed me to gain a confidence in my knowledge as I knew it was from a replicable source, helping me to feel that i could trust what i read. I found the book really good while on placement, as being new to early years, where it is very child initiated I felt more able to plan for this with the new knowledge I have gained. I have already recommended the book to other trainees and even the class teacher wanted to read it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Right from the first sentence this book inspired me to take a critical view of how I'm supporting the idea of child-initiated environments in my setting. Since the introduction of the Early Years Foundation Stage (2007) phrases such as `child-led', `child-initiated', `enabling environments' have been a source of questioning for many practitioners. This book answers many of these questions and more.
The book sections this large subject into three key aspects (child interest, role of the practitioner and learning approaches) and uses questions to create a book that's easy to refer back to time and time again. The references to recent research such as EPPE and Early Years Foundation Stage framework make this book a valuable resource for students and those leading others in their practice.
Lindon's time spent observing settings has provided many real-life experiences to highlight good practice and create ideas for practitioners to take back to their own settings. This book follows other Practical Pre-School books in its use of amusing cartoons and simple layout making it another great book in the four part series. I highly recommend that anyone who has questions about `child-initiated learning' reads this book.
Senior Lead Pracititioner and BA early years student
The book sections this large subject into three key aspects (child interest, role of the practitioner and learning approaches) and uses questions to create a book that's easy to refer back to time and time again. The references to recent research such as EPPE and Early Years Foundation Stage framework make this book a valuable resource for students and those leading others in their practice.
Lindon's time spent observing settings has provided many real-life experiences to highlight good practice and create ideas for practitioners to take back to their own settings. This book follows other Practical Pre-School books in its use of amusing cartoons and simple layout making it another great book in the four part series. I highly recommend that anyone who has questions about `child-initiated learning' reads this book.
Senior Lead Pracititioner and BA early years student
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