Full Description
Child Care and Early Education has been written as a course companion to all major level 3 childcare qualifications including the CACHE Diploma in Early Years Care and Education, S/NVQ Early Years Care and Education and BTEC National in Early Years. Written from a more practical angle than existing childcare texts, Child Care and Early Education successfully covers the theory associated with all aspects of care and education for the under eights.
Suitable for use as a course textbook with a supervisor, college tutor or NVQ assessor, Child Care and Early Education will also be valuable for practitioners who want to extend their own practice. It offers advice on building your own portfolio, learning to use resources and continued professional development.
Written in an accessible and lively style, Child Care and Early Education is up to date on current childcare practice. It offers support, information and practical suggestions for practitioners in all types of early years and out of school care settings and also for readers working in a family home as nannies and childminders. Highly successful and established author Jennie Lindon offers different perspectives on some challenging issues often omitted from childcare texts.
Contents
Introduction
1. The early years of childhood
2. Caring for children - caring about children
3. Promoting health and well being through food and mealtimes
4. Keeping children well and healthy
5. Conception and birth
6. Care and development of babies
7. Supporting childrens personal and social development
8. Children in a social world: emotions, thinking and actions
9. Physical development and skills
10. Learning opportunities through physical activities
11. The development of communication and spoken language
12. Supporting childrens development of literacy
13. Thinking and intellectual development
14. Supporting childrens learning within the curriculum
15. Planning for childrens learning
16. Observation, record keeping and assessment
17. A positive approach to childrens behaviour
18. Children with disabilities and continuing health conditions
19. Child protection in the early years
20.Developing good practice as an early years practitioner
21.Partnership with parents
Appendix 1: Working towards an early years qualification
Appendix 2: Useful organisations
Glossary
Index
