Early Years Practice: For Educators and Teachers

With links to the NCTL Teachers' Standards, and including questions for reflection, stories from practice and staggered annotated further reading, this book will help students; * understand how children learn and develop * engage with the curriculum and the practice of teaching * learn more about the structure and reality of early years provision * develop the professional skills and attributes needed to take a leading role * apply all of this to practice. This core textbook is ideal for students of early years and early childhood courses and will guide them through what it means to be an early years professional.