This text presents the key learning theories and theoriests in children's learning with a balanced but critical review of each perspective.

Do you need good leaders to achieve good quality or does good quality create good leadership? This book explores the meanings and understandings of quality and leadership that are present in early years services and how to lead in order to develop and achieve quality in your early years setting.

The SAGE Handbook of Sociology of Education offers a diverse and timely perspective on the intricate relationships between education and society, with expert contributions covering topics such as social stratification, educational policy, and the impact of COVID-19 on early childhood education.

This text covers all historically and current classroom assessment approaches and includes a review of compelling evidence for the use of each classroom assessment approach, demonstrating why the approaches are considered best practice and research-based.

Explore the four approaches to co-teaching with updated discussions of RTI, discussions of the roles of paraprofessionals and administrators, and lesson plans linked to the Common Core.

A must-have for teachers, curriculum designers, and school leader, providing them with everything they need to know about developing curriculum and instruction for the K-12 classroom, tying in with the Common Core State Standards.

A critical overview of key issues and areas within early years for those training or working in the sector, focused on policy and practice.

Through the analysis of theory, research and practice, this Handbook provides the reader with a clear, global picture of workplace learning.

Enables practitioners, scholars and academics to understand how to re-design or suggest changes to curriculum structure, shape and content.

By examining the historic background of observing and planning, and describing examples of good practice in different group settings, this book will help to monitor a child's progress - what is needed now and to work out what is needed next.