Assessment for Learning
Documentation and Planning for the EYLF
by Bridie Raban, Jenny Barber & Sharon Paul Smith
An essential resource for all educators and directors in early childhood settings.
- Provides a point of reference in relation to the assessment for learning process described in the Early Years Learning Framework.
- Chapters deal with different aspects of the process, focusing on documentation, planning, evaluation, assessment and reflection.
- Each section concludes with things to think about that will help you and your colleagues decide how to set about these activities in ways that best reflect your philosophy, your children and their families, and the communities you engage with and belong to.
Planning and observation are at the heart of any early years setting, and this straight-to-the-point guide gives a wealth of clear instructions on best practice in planning for young children’s learning, and observing their development.
Features include case studies of planning in real settings, sample planning sheets and support on balancing child-initiated and adult-led learning.
| ISBN | 978-1-921613-44-9 | |
| Price | $39.95 | |
| Format | 292 x 205 mm PB | |
| Level | Early Years teachers & professionals | |
| Available | now | |
The Early Years Learning Framework in Practice
A Handbook for Teachers & Practitioners
By Bridie Raban, Jan Deans, Kay Margetts & Amelia Church
A handbook for early childhood professionals who are now having to implement the recently legislated national Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) into early childhood services across Australia.
This book is intended to help directors, co-ordinators and educators to implement the EYLF with confidence, and is the first to provide a practical resource to assist early childhood professionals in this task.
The book has been developed by the early childhood team at the University of Melbourne, under the direction of Professor Bridie Raban.
Features
- A resumé of government imperatives for the early childhood profession
- A comprehensive overview of the Principles, Practices and Pedagogy underpinning the EYLF
- Support for professionals in confidently putting the EYLF into practice
- Five chapters that provide practical advice and strategies for supporting each of the Learning Outcomes: Identity, Community, Wellbeing, Learning and Communication
- Advice on implementing the outcomes with different age groups
- Ideas about attachment relationships with young children; indoor and outdoor environments; observation, evaluation and planning; and play
- Questions to encourage reflective practice
- Comprehensive list of resources plus internet links for worksheets
| ISBN | 978-1-921613-28-9 | |
| Price | $39.95 | |
| Format | 292 x 205 mm PB | |
| Extent | 80 pp | |
| Level | Early Years teachers | |
| Available | now | |
Exploring Emotions
How you can help children to recognise and talk about their feelings
by Ros Bayley & Kay Margetts
If children are to become emotionally competent adults, able to understand and have mastery over their feelings, it is essential that this important work begins in the early years. It is a fundamental part of enabling children to be sensitive to the feelings of others, and a key element of all other emotional skills.
This book takes a sensitive look at the whole range of human emotions and shows how to help children to recognise and talk about them.
The book:
- gives ideas for using puppets, toys, pictures and photographs
- suggests games to play and stories to use
- provides scenarios to explore
| ISBN | 978-1-921613-47-0 | |
| Price | $29.95 | |
| Level | Early years/lower primary | |
| Available | now | |
Meeting Special Needs
Adapted for Australia and New Zealand by Anne Vize
The Meeting Special Needs series consists of six practical and concise handbooks designed to give help and guidance to teachers and professionals working with or caring for children with special educational needs and disorders.
Each book covers:
- understanding the condition and recognising symptoms
- supporting the child and their carers, with real life examples to help manage behaviour
- writing individual education plans
- working with other professionals
all of which are designed to ensure children with special educational needs are fully supported and included.
The books are written by renowned specialists in the fields, and have been carefully adapted for Australian and New Zealand conditions by Anne Vize.
| ISBN | ADHD | 978-1-921613-17-3 | |
| Autism | 978-1-921613-18-0 | ||
| Cerebral Palsy | 978-1-921613-45-6 | ||
| Coeliac Disease & Gluten Intolerance | 978-1-921613-46-3 | ||
| Dyslexia | 978-1-921613-19-7 | ||
| Dyspraxia — | |||
| movement & co-ordination disorders | 978-1-921613-20-3 | ||
| Epilepsy | 978-1-921613-21-0 | ||
| Speech & Language Difficulties | 978-1-921613-22-7 | ||
| Price | $24.95 each | ||
| Format | 292 x 205 mm PB | ||
| Extent | 24 pp | ||
| Level | years K-6 | ||
| Available | now | ||
Play in the Early Years
Learning through play is at the heart of the EYLF, and this series gives Early Years teachers and professionals as many play ideas as possible to support children’s learning.
The series features:
- the value of play
- planning for and supporting play
- links to the five learning outcomes in the EYLF
Discovery Play
by Bridie Raban & Sheila Riddell-Leech
Discovery play involves children in exploring a range of natural materials to encourage them to discover at their own pace and in their own way. This practical guide offers advice on setting up treasure basket and discovery play sessions at all stages up to 5 years old. It comes with links to the EYLF and schemas.
Outdoor Play
by Bridie Raban & Sheila Riddell-Leech
This book is full of ideas for new and exciting outdoor play, whatever the weather. All activities are linked to the EYLF, and come with advice on planning and supporting outdoor play sessions.
Role Play
by Bridie Raban & Sheila Riddell-Leech
Role play is a rich and often undervalued area of play in which children are able to explore situations from their own or another person’s perspective. This book covers every aspect of role playing, with scenarios linked to the five learning outcomes in the EYLF, to supporting play and helping children create their own props to encourage free-flow play.
| ISBN | Discovery Play | 978-1-921613-31-9 |
| Outdoor Play | 978-1-921613-32-6 | |
| Role Play | 978-1-921613-33-3 | |
| Price | Discovery Play | $32.95 |
| Outdoor Play | $36.95 | |
| Role Play | $36.95 | |
| Extent | Discovery Play | 74 pp |
| Outdoor Play | 60 pp | |
| Role Play | 48 pp | |
| Level | years K-1 | |
| All available | now | |
Principles and Practice for Driving the EYLF
by Bridie Raban & Kay Margetts
The principles underpinning the EYLF (pp 12–13 of Belonging, Being and Becoming) underline the practice (pp 14–18) identified by research evidence focused on helping all children to make progress in relation to the five learning outcomes: Identity, Community, Wellbeing, Learning and Communication.
This book addresses issues concerning:
- WHAT is the nature of these principles and related practice
- WHY they are important
- HOW they can be made operational in daily work with young children
The principles:
- Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships
- Partnerships
- High expectations and equity
- Respect for diversity
- Ongoing learning and reflective practice
The related practice:
- Holistic approaches
- Responsiveness to children
- Learning through play
- Intentional teaching
- Learning environments
- Cultural competence
- Continuity of learning and transitions
- Assessment for learning
Examples of best practice are presented to make these principles and practices readily accessible to educators working in the field of early childhood education and care.
| ISBN | 978-1-921613-29-6 | |
| Price | $39.95 | |
| Format | 292 x 205 mm PB | |
| Extent | 60 pp | |
| Level | Early Years teachers & professionals | |
| Available | now | |
Stepping Stones
Four books providing early childhood educators and parents with a treasure trove of practical activities and resources to help develop children’s literacy, expression and creativity through the arts.
These books cover 40 of the most popular topics in the early years, from animals to weather, making it easy to dip into and combine with the Learning Outcomes of the Early Years Learning Framework.
Drama and Role Play
by Judith Harries, Bridie Raban & Kay Margetts
Develops children’s sense of drama through simple drama games such as freeze framing, mime and progressing to more character-based and role playing drama.
Stories, Songs and Rhymes
by Judith Harries, Bridie Raban & Kay Margetts
A great resource for exploring a wide range of traditional and modern stories, songs and nursery rhymes. An essential tool for developing children’s memory and creative listening skills.
The Visual Arts
by Judith Harries, Mel Astill, Kay Margetts & Bridie Raban
With a wide range of imaginative and practical ideas to dip into this book is guaranteed to keep children fully engaged. It features both new and familiar topics to create a variety of art.
Dance and Movement
by Elizabeth Palfrey, Kay Margetts & Bridie Raban
A practical and imaginative guide brimming with ideas and activities to help early years practitioners develop young children’s self-expression through dance and movement, while keeping them fit and healthy through these energetic exercises.
| ISBN | Drama & Role Play | 978-1-921613-34-0 |
| Songs, Stories & Rhymes | 978-1-921613-35-7 | |
| The Visual Arts | 978-1-921613-36-4 | |
| Dance & Movement | 978-1-921613-37-1 | |
| Price | $24.95 each | |
| Extent | 36 pp | |
| Level | years K-1 | |
| Available | now | |
Using ICT in the Early Years
by John Siraj-Blatchford and Alex Morgan
In an increasingly technological world with growing curriculum demands for children to become technologically literate, many early years teachers feel lost at how to approach this topic.
This book, written by the foremost experts in the UK in Early Years ICT, is a step-by-step guide on how to teach young children a variety of ICT. Importantly, this book also answers what many teachers feel is a weakness of ICT by offering suggestions for using technology to develop children’s creative thinking and provide opportunities for outdoor play.
Many different types of ICT are explained through activities that even the most technophobic of practitioners can carry out — from work with simulation games, through to programmable toys and Interactive White Boards.
Contents
- Introduction
- Role play
- Developing ICT capability in the early years
- Adventure and simulation games
- Imaging movies and graphics
- Programmable toys
- IWBs and touchscreens
| ISBN | 978-1-921613-26-5 | |
| Price | $34.95 | |
| Format | 292 x 205 mm PB | |
| Extent | 56 pp | |
| Level | years 3-6 | |
| Available | now | |
