Just Playing explores why we should encourage, promote, value and initiate play in our classrooms, and why teachers should be part of it. Janet Moyles draws on research findings from several countries which provide further evidence for establishing the value of play. She focuses on children between 4 and 8, examining the principles of play in early childhood education, and indicates how these principles can be put into practice. She provides a full justification for including play in the early years curriculum and encourages teachers, through examples of children at play, to review their own thinking on the issues in the light of core curriculum pressures. This is essential reading for trainee and practising nursery and primary teachers and nursery nurses; and for all those concerned with the education and development of young children.

Just Playing?

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Moyles,Janet

Psychology & Counseling

Open University Press

The primary classroom is the context in which a wide range of teaching and learning experiences occur - and not just for the children! What is it that underlies classroom organization, routines, rules, structures and daily occurrences? What are the prime objectives and what influences the decisions of teachers and children? What is it useful for teachers to consider when contemplating the issues of classroom management and organization? What do different practices have to offer?

Organizing for Learning in the Primary Classroom

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Anyone who has observed play for any length of time wil recognize that, for young children, play is a tool for learning. Professionals who understand, acknowledge, and appreciate this can, through provision, interaction and intervention in children's play, ensure progression, differentiation and relevance in the curriculum. "The Excellence of Play" gathers together authoritative contributors to provide a wide-ranging and key source text reflecting both up-to-date research and current classroom practice. It tackles how we conceptualize play, how we 'place' it in the classroom, how we relate it to the curriculum, and how we evaluate its role in learning in the early years. It should stimulate and inform debate through its argument that 'a curriculum which sanctions and utilizes play is more likely to provide well-balanced citizens of the future as well as happier children in the present'.

The Excellence of Play

Reviews of the first edition:"Janet Moyles's carefully and imaginatively edited book will be of great interest to a wide educational community... This is more than a handbook for students and their tutors - it is a manifest of the dedicated and closely focused professionalism of the University of Leicester team, and I am sure that it will still be being read in ten years time by all concerned with primary education." - Mentoring and Tutoring* How can new primary teachers not only survive but enjoy their chosen career?* What can newly qualified and student teachers do to recognize and address the many complexities of primary teaching?* What are the issues which continually challenge both new and experienced teachers?The second edition of this successful text sets out to explore some of the wider issues surrounding work with children in the 3-11 years age range and considers how these are woven into the broad framework of teaching and teachers' own learning. Cameos and examples of classroom practice help to illustrate the aspects of teaching: what it is to be an effective and competent teacher; classroom processes such as planning, observation and assessment; the variety of ways in which children learn and develop thinking skills through various curriculum areas including ICT; equal opportunities and special needs issues; 'in loco parentis' responsibilities and reflective approaches to teaching. Written in an accessible style, the aim throughout is to offer guidance and encouragement in the challenging and complex task of early years and primary teaching.Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, this second edition, produced by colleagues from Anglia Polytechnic University and University of Leicester, discusses teaching and learning in the context of recent initiatives such as the Foundation Stage, the Literacy Hour, the induction year for newly qualified teachers and the growth and development of ICT. It will be an essential text for all students and newly qualified primary teachers.

Beginning Teaching: Beginning Learning

What is interactive teaching in the context of primary classrooms? What is it that primary teachers and children actually do to interact effectively? Are there benefits in such interactions to both teaching and learning? set out to try to find the answers to these questions in the context of the Literacy Hour in Key Stages 1 and 2. The book represents the story of this research and aims to develop for readers some of the practical and theoretical aspects which need to be considered if interactive teaching is to be understood and undertaken effectively in primary classrooms. Reflective Dialogues, to help teachers make sense of their own teaching by capturing and analysing classroom sessions on video. Cameos of these incidents and reflections are interlaced throughout the book.

Interactive Teaching in the Primary School: Digging Deeper Into Meanings

The Excellence of Play Second Edition

Review of the first edition: 'a fine and refreshing collection of articles! Each chapter is integrated closely with the others, [making] "The Excellence of Play" easy to dip into as well as presenting readers with the opportunity to read in more detail about aspects of play theory in practice that particularly interest them! This is exactly the kind of practical information and structure that teachers need' - "BERJ".'The book is highly recommended for both students and practitioners who are interested in developing their understanding of play in early childhood' - "Early Years journal".This second edition of "The Excellence of Play" encapsulates all of the many changes that have taken place in early childhood in the last decade. It examines the vital importance of play as a tool for learning and teaching for children and practitioners, supporting all those who work in early childhood education and care in developing and implementing the highest quality play experiences for young children. All the contributors are experts in their fields and all are passionate about the excellence of play.While the importance of curriculum and assessment is retained and extended, this edition features many new contributions, including: children as social and active agents in their own play; more background to current research on play theory and practice; practitioners' roles in play and adults' enabling of play Links with the Foundation Stage (including legislation and policy); links with the first years of school and beyond; outdoor and physical play, including rough and tumble; gender differences; play and observation/assessment; special educational needs and play. "The Excellence of Play" provides a powerful argument that a curriculum which sanctions and utilizes play is more likely to provide well-balanced citizens of the future, as well as happier and more learned children in the present. It is essential reading for all early years students and practitioners. Contributors include: Prof. Lesley Abbott; Anne Langston; Dr. Sian Adams; Prof. Angela Anning; Prof. Pat Broadhead; Prof. Tina Bruce; Prof. Emeritus Tricia David; Dr. Sacha Powell; Bernadette Duffy; Dr. Hilary Fabian; Dr. Aline-Wendy Dunlop; Rose Griffiths; Prof. Nigel Hall; Stephanie Harding; Jane Hislam; Lan Howe; Dan Davies; Neil Kitson; Dr. Theodora Papatheodorou; Linda Pound; Prof. Peter Smith; Dr. David Whitebread; and, Helen Jameson.

Effective Leadership And Management In The Early Years

This book is unique in providing not only a thorough analysis of the leader and manager's role and presenting it as a typology, but also in offering a clear and in-depth view of that role. It also presents ways in which the leaders and managers can undertake self-evaluation or work alongside a peer to understand their own strengths and challenges more readily.

Effective Leadership and Management in the Early Years

Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning: in Primary Education

"This collection provides an excellent introduction to the practical skills which all student teachers have to develop but it also celebrates the unpredictability and excitement of working with interested, inquisitive children. [It] should inspire readers to see teaching, in universities as well as in classrooms, as the promotion of lively conversations between learners. " – Rod Parker-Rees, University of Plymouth
"The second edition was invaluable and this is even better." – Yvonne Yule, University of Aberdeen
 The third edition of this highly successful text sets out to explore some of the wider issues to be investigated by beginning teachers - and those who support them - when working with early years and primary age children, while at the same time, exploring some of the delight and enjoyment in the teaching role.
 The book is organised into four parts - Early Beginnings; Beginning to Understand Children's Thinking and Learning; Organising for Teaching and Learning; Supporting and Enhancing Learning and Teaching - and reflects the current context of education and care by covering children from birth to 11-years. There are new chapters covering teaching assistants and interagency working, as well as children's independence and physical activity. Cameos and examples of practice in settings and classrooms help to illustrate the many different aspects of teaching.
 Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, this book is written in a lively style and offers guidance, encouragement and support for all those new to working in schools and other educational settings, and gives them the confidence to reflect upon, challenge and enhance their own learning and practices.
 Beginning Teaching Beginning Learning is essential reading for all students and newly qualified primary teachers.

"This collection provides an excellent introduction to the practical skills which all student teachers have to develop but it also celebrates the unpredictability and excitement of working with interested, inquisitive children. [It] should inspire readers to see teaching, in universities as well as in classrooms, as the promotion of lively conversations between learners. " – Rod Parker-Rees, University of Plymouth"The second edition was invaluable and this is even better." – Yvonne Yule, University of Aberdeen
 The third edition of this highly successful text sets out to explore some of the wider issues to be investigated by beginning teachers - and those who support them - when working with early years and primary age children, while at the same time, exploring some of the delight and enjoyment in the teaching role.
 The book is organised into four parts - Early Beginnings; Beginning to Understand Children's Thinking and Learning; Organising for Teaching and Learning; Supporting and Enhancing Learning and Teaching - and reflects the current context of education and care by covering children from birth to 11-years. There are new chapters covering teaching assistants and interagency working, as well as children's independence and physical activity. Cameos and examples of practice in settings and classrooms help to illustrate the many different aspects of teaching.
 Comprehensively revised and updated throughout, this book is written in a lively style and offers guidance, encouragement and support for all those new to working in schools and other educational settings, and gives them the confidence to reflect upon, challenge and enhance their own learning and practices.
 Beginning Teaching Beginning Learning is essential reading for all students and newly qualified primary teachers.

With so many challenges facing early years professionals, there are continual dilemmas arising between doing what one knows is essentially 'right' for birth-to-five-year-olds from all backgrounds and conforming to the demands made by government and policy makers. This exciting and original book supports practitioners in thinking through their roles to meet some of the many issues they encounter.Using the new Early Years Foundation Stage principles as its framework, the contributors support early years professionals in dealing with issues and challenges in a sensitive and professional manner, with particular emphasis upon the need for practitioners to personalise the requirements for each child in their care and to reflect closely upon their own and children's experiences. The writers are all experienced and avid early years advocates. Their topics include: the changing landscape of early childhood, culture, identity and diversity, supporting playful learning, outdoor learning, documenting children's experiences, developing independence in learning, the meaning of being creative, play and mark-making in maths, and literacy.Each section is introduced with some background research and information to provide evidence and guidance upon which practitioners can make their own decisions. Individual chapters include questions for reflection, points for discussion and suggestions for additional reading. "Early Years Foundations: Meeting the Challenge" is essential reading for the full range of practitioners working and playing with birth-to-five-year-olds. Contributors include: Deborah Albon, Pat Broadhead, Liz Brooker, Naima Browne, Elizabeth Carruthers, Tricia David, Dan Davies, Jackie Eyles, Hilary Fabian, Rose Griffiths, Alan Howe, Paulette Luff, Rod Parker-Rees, Theodora Papatheodorou, Emmie Short, David Whitebread, Marian Whitehead and Maulfry Worthington.

Early Years Foundations

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Just Playing?

Organizing for Learning in the Primary Classroom

The Excellence of Play

Beginning Teaching: Beginning Learning

Interactive Teaching in the Primary School: Digging Deeper Into Meanings

The Excellence of Play Second Edition

Effective Leadership and Management in the Early Years

Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning: in Primary Education

Beginning Teaching, Beginning Learning: in Primary Education

Early Years Foundations