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Appropriate contexts for learning and teaching
Appropriate contexts for learning and teaching in the Early Years.

Introduction to Early Years Provision
The film compares building with bricks and blocks in nursery and reception, each filmed for around twenty minutes.

Responsive World Class Curriculum: Case Study Reception
The film shows how a practitioner develops learning in both the prime and specific areas.

Responsive World Class Curriculum: Case Study Nursery
The film centres on how teachers adjust the continuous provision in response to an interest expressed by a child, in ...

Planning Through Assessment
We see a teacher scribing for reception age children who are being encouraged to develop stories of their own.

Professional Development in Early Years
The clip features reception age children, inspired to build an extension of the Dubai Metro in their classroom.

Evolving to Maximise Effectiveness
The featured discussion relates to a shared observation from the teachers that children starting nursery have been no...

Reviewing to Maximise Effectiveness
Planning featured in this clip is for nursery age children at the start of the autumn term.

Taking Risks
We capture how teachers are settling children as they embed routines in the early stages of the school year.

Curriculum Design
Within the clip, we feature the delivery of the characteristics of effective learning and the prime areas in nursery,...

Juilliard: Introducing the collaboration
Juilliard's Curriculum Specialists are both professional musicians and educators and can introduce engagement, creati...

Building skills across the curriculum
Students and a PE teacher reflect on how skills practised in Performing Arts subjects transfer to many subjects, illu...

Assessment and evaluation
Considering how we evaluate the effectiveness of Early Years practice and provision through the outcomes that childre...

Teaching the curriculum
The nature of teaching in Early Years classrooms differs significantly from other Primary age ranges in both process ...

Encountering learning
Vital to monitoring the quality of Early Years provision is understanding the nature of how children of this age lear...

The enabling environment
The physical nature of the environment – both inside and outside – is a vital component in ensuring and facilitating ...

Defining the otherness of Early Years
This introduction will explore the key differences between Early Years classes and the rest of the Primary school age...

Improving Writing 1: Vivid Verbs
This first grade teacher introduces a class on the carpet to superior, more vivid verbs.

Improving Writing 3: Mentoring Improvement in Writing
An extended conversation to improve writing standards between a first grade pupil and his teaching assistant.

Exploring Non-Standard Measurements Using IT 1
Joaquim uses non-standard tools to measure the length of different school supplies.