Essential Guides for Early Career Teachers: Teaching Early Years

"...offers a comprehensive, insightful, and engaging exploration of what it means to be an Early Years teacher. The passion for Early Years learning and teaching, including the unique elements of working with young child, are captured well through each chapter. There is a helpful balance of exploration of EYFS documentation and expectation, alongside developing practitioner skills, knowledge and disposition such as building relationships, creating an effective learning environment and nurturing each individual."

"A strength of the book is the range of reflective activities, which have been creatively constructed to enable the reader’s engagement in thinking carefully about the topics explored. The top tips are an excellent way to help get any ECT started in their Early Years career!"

-- Dr Rachael Paige * Deputy Head of School, School of Education, University of Worcester *

"This is an accessible, informative and highly practical book that will help early career teachers pause and reflect on their practice, and how they would like to develop this further. The book is packed full of valuable ideas to support thoughtful reflection in areas relevant to early years practitioners, such as building relationships, planning and playing. I would highly recommend it to those teaching in the early years."

-- Dr Helen Lewis * Programme Director PGCE Primary, Swansea University *

"This is a very welcome text to support the development of excellent professional practice amongst early career teachers (ECTs) in early year’s settings. It is structured in a clear way, providing strong stimuli to support effective practice. It is rooted in the experience of being an ECT, ensuring the chapters are highly relevant and have clear application. Throughout, there is a strong focus on children and their learning and development, which helps ECTs keep their focus on the most important part of entering the profession, whatever other pressures make demands on their time. Throughout, there is a very welcome focus on a values-based approach to the professional role and the importance of developing effective and high quality relationships with a broad range of stakeholders."

-- Professor Richard Woolley * Head of the School of Education, University of Hu