How might we develop young children's problem skills?
Aim: To examine childrens responses to a number of practical problem-solving tasks, how they explain their decisions, and how they use diagrams (with symbols) to record the process.
The Evidence People
Early Years
Raising awareness of more able children
Aim: to identify more able children and help them to achieve their full potential.
Learning to Listen
Aim: To modify the structured teaching programme,"Learning to Listen" (devised for a special school) for use in mainstream nursery classes, to monitor the effects of the programme in improving the listening skills of young children and to examine the support, training and professional development implications for teachers using the programme.
Strong roots healthy branches - Inspiring creativity in teaching for Early Years practitoners through peer coaching
Aim: Our aim was to explore collaborative working in relation to producing and using active learning approaches and materials, the effectiveness of peer coaching on team development and CPD and leadership behaviour and learning.
Using role-play to improve nursery children's language
Aim: To find the best ways of using role-play to improve nursery childrens language.
Teaching Children with Autism to use Pretend Play
Aim: To discover whether Early Years children who have autism and additional learning difficulties can learn to use pretend play within a class group and to explore the nature and implications.
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Parental involvement in education
Aim: To plan an Early Years curriculum by improving the dialogue between Early Years practitioners and parents, by raising parental expectations and by finding out how and what young children learn at home.
The potential of active listening for sustaining appropriate behaviour among young children
Aim: To investigate the role of active listening in sustaining appropriate behaviour among young children in a primary school for children with emotional and behavioural difficulties (EBD).
An inclusive multi-sensory approach to teaching arithmetic
Aim: The focus of this teacher-led action research was to construct a programme of multi-sensory teaching activities to develop mental arithmetic capability in children from Nursery through KS1.