Concerned about the NQF? – don’t be.
Reflection, Empowerment and
by Joy Lubawy
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The whole box and dice or the whole shebang – The National Quality Framework seen as a whole NQF, EYLF, NQS and QIP.
It has three Chapters:
Reflecting on and growing with the theorists
Reflecting on the EYLF Principles and Practices
Down to the wire - putting everything together in practice and documentation
136 pages, 66 with colour! Spiral bound – it will lay open and flat for easy use.
NQF ( EYLF, NQS & QIP ) as a whole – using learning stories as documentation easily and effectively.
Suitable for educators working with any age young child in any situation.
Practical – down to earth – reflective and philosophical. Real stories, real children, real centres and Joy’s conversational and inclusive style.
Set of 3 (EYLF) - $99.95 (Free Postage)
More - Observation to Reflection (EYLF)
Pankcakes and Red Buckets (EYLF)
Provisions, Provocations and Possibilities (EYLF)
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Set of 4 (NQF + EYLF) - $169.90 (Free Postage)
Set of 3 (EYLF); and
Reflection, Empowerment and Practice in Early Childhood (NQF)
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More - Observation to Reflection: Working Within The Early Years Learning Framework
by Joy Lubawy
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We are at the pointy end of 15 years of challenge and change. The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia - EYLF [and it's variations from state to state] is now a reality, and what a marvellous, challenging and supporting document it is. But, we might ask, what do we do with it, and how can we make not only the children's learning more visible, but how can we demonstrate and document the ways we are emergent, intentional, holistic and supporting play-based learning? Joy has been thinking about these ideas and while still promoting documenting using learning stories these thoughts are reflected in an almost complete re-write of the very popular From Observation to Reflection : about 80% is new! 'More' clears up some misconceptions at it takes the reader through from our Image of the child, to using MS Word, and answers a few other frequently asked questions, and makes some comparisons that will delight.
Pancakes and Red Buckets: Emergent and Intentional - Working within the Early Years Learning Framework
by Joy Lubawy
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Pancakes and Red Buckets has a new cover, and almost 50% new material. This book explores how we can be intentional and explicit without becoming didactic. 66 pages (30 with colour) and a lot more photographs, all working towards a deeper understanding how to make EYLF more visible. Pancakes and Red Buckets completes the circle, Planning for Provisions, Provocations and Possibilities and More – Observation to Reflection, all working within EYLF.
by Joy Lubawy
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A baby learning to dance, a toddler watering the pot plants, a three year old playing music with improvised instruments and some four year olds on a long learning journey about a shark egg case, are opportunities that practitioners can use to plan for provisions, provocations and possibilities within EYLF.
Joy answers 21 questions that she has been asked in the years since she began writing this series, beginning with From Observation to Reflection , followed by Pancakes and Red Buckets . Some of these questions are:
What do you mean by planning? Is this the programme?
How then, can we communicate our planning to parents? How can they contribute?
What is a provocation?
What do we mean, when we say the environment is the 3rd teacher?
Is the Australian Emergent Curriculum different to what they do in Reggio Emilia?
What if parents want us to do more formal ‘school readiness’ type work?
What is a provision?
What is a possibility?
Does an Emergent Curriculum work with babies and toddlers?
It’s thoughtful, encouraging, practical and reflective and once again delights in the wonders of the young child. This book is designed for practitioners at all experience levels and will support them in their understanding of The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia.
Magical Moments
by Belinda Whateley www.revolutionlearning.com.au
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This book is visually appealing, glossy pages, A4 size, colour photographs and clever graphics.
Belinda writes: Magical moments is stopping to notice the little things in life with children – the joys and challenges – and recognising that these are part of a truly magical time of childhood. [p. 25]
She has a catchy way of getting her message across, and lots of helpful hints to bring magical moments to reality, really making children’s learning visible, the big stuff and the tiny stuff that might otherwise go unnoticed. She makes the EYLF really visible to the reader.
Belinda gives us fabulous ideas to help with meaningful reflections. She reminds us to ask ourselves are we a human being or a human doing?
She writes of enthusiasm, wonder, hope and dreams and gives excellent examples of how the magical moments might look on the page. She doesn’t use templates; each story has it’s own unique appearance. She encourages the reader to step forth and have a go, follow their intuition.
Belinda’s book really advocates for younger children, this is the book for you. Following on from our set of 3 EYLF books, More Observation to Reflection; Pancakes and Red Buckets and Planning for Provisions, Provocations and Possibilities ,
Visions of Creativity in Early Childhood:
by Joy Lubawy
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Joy Lubawy is a storyteller. Joy illustrates Visions of Creativity with real-life stories from her 30 years as Teacher/Director in Australian early childhood centres. Readers share in her reflections on encouraging children's creativity. Joy has used Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligence as the framework for the book and we see that creativity is for every child, not only for the artists and performers. She has blended her thoughts and stories with responses to ideas from Reggio Emilia as well as other writers from the Emergent Curriculum school of thought. Visions of Creativity is easy to read, thoughtful and inspiring.
Preschool Math
by Joy Lubawy, Bob Williams and Deb Cunningham
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The authors of Preschool Math - a scientist, a Montessori teacher, and an Emergent Curriculum advocate, two from the USA and one from Australia--come from different backgrounds and all offer unique expertise to the book. This combination gives the book a particularly interesting and stimulating approach, and makes the book usable for any teacher. Preschool Math encourages teachers to listen to and observe young children to better understand how they think about their world. The book uses these prompts to expand into useful and appropriate maths experiences. Teachers will encourage children to use their senses and bodies to explore ideas, record and talk about the concepts, and to learn how math feels, tastes, and looks. Activities in Preschool Math use the scientific ideals of testing, evaluating, exploring, experimenting, problem solving, making guesses, and forming a hypothesis, while utilizing interesting materials and environments in mathematical ways.
"This book is a breath of fresh air for teachers, providing inspiration for meaningful early childhood maths experiences. It is set out so that teachers can "dip in" to easily find activities to support the children's interests and abilities. The activities enable collaborative learning and are open-ended, to suit a range of abilities. The activities use concrete materials in ways that enable teachers to support and extend children's emerging discoveries and understandings." Kelly Denniss, an early childhood educator who is using Preschool Math.
Child Accident/Incident & Illness Report (NQF)
by Joy Lubawy & Bebe Jarratt
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50 self-duplicating forms in each pack. Handy for storage for the required number of years and easily completed. A copy for parents to take home and a copy for the centre to keep.
Child Medication Report (NQF)
by Joy Lubawy & Bebe Jarratt
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50 self-duplicating forms in each pack. Handy for storage for the required number of years and easily completed. A copy for parents to take home and a copy for the centre to keep.
Play, Dance, Sing with young children
by Joy Lubawy, Team Henderson and others
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Play, Dance, Sing with young children - music CD
By Joy Lubawy, Team Henderson and others
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Get those percussion instruments out of the cupboard and into the hands of children.
Play, Dance, Sing with young children has19 useful and exciting tracks for adults to share with children. Joy and her friend Team Henderson with a little help from a couple of friends have written, recorded and produced this fantastic resource. There are some adaptations of familiar songs as well as original material.
Here is a must have book. She had me convinced when she wrote in the introduction: “We don’t need to focus on inclusion if our services operate in ways that don’t exclude anyone in the first place”.
Do these words speak to you?
Social Inclusion
by Margaret Sims
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Slightly smaller than A4, 72 pages.
Margaret makes the EYLF Outcomes very clear, she adds to this with thoughtful reflections and real stories about children just BEING! This book will challenge, inform and encourage you. It is sure to be a winner when you begin to think about Quality Improvement.
Margaret uses a strengths based approach. She talks with the reader in an easy going conversational style. Love it when she tells the reader “We do not test children, nor do we require them to undertake tasks to demonstrate how they perform”. [P. 12]
Play: The Pathway from Theory to Practice
by Sandra Heidemann and Deborah Hewitt
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This book contains practical suggestions and theoretical information for helping children thrive with play-based learning. Chapters include an explanation of the functional "Play Checklist" to help you observe children's emerging skills and pinpoint areas for improvement, instructions for writing specific and attainable goals for children, and case studies from real classrooms.
Thinking Big Learning Big: Connecting Science, Math, Literacy, and Language in Early Childood
by Marie Evitt
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BIG activities engage little learners with this complete curriculum for science, math, and language; BIG is powerful. Children want to be BIG. They want to do BIG. They love enormous numbers like a hundred million billion and long words like tyrannosaurus rex. They love to spread their arms wide and run as fast as they can. Thinking BIG, Learning BIG is filled with BIG activities to engage the imaginations of young children. Children learn best by seeing, feeling, and doing. Making things on a grand scale enhances their understanding. When children build a giant spider with eight legs and eight eyes, and a giant fly with six legs and two eyes and two wings, children can experience the difference between spiders and flies, that they are not just bugs. BIG creations are more fun, more memorable, and therefore, more educational. The chapters are organized by topic, with activities that build science, math, and language skills, which form a solid foundation for future learning.
From My Side Being a Child
by Sylvia C Chard and Yvonne Kogan
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This beautiful book, filled with hundreds of colour photographs from many different countries, invites us to look through a window into the lives of children everywhere. Children are never still. They are always acting and reacting, thinking and speaking, anticipating and reflecting. The photographs in this book illustrate and explore the experience of children, who learn to make sense of their world by interacting with people, places, and objects they encounter in their homes, in public places, in schools, and in daycare centers. We hear the laughter of children dressed for a festival dance, the coos and gurgles of infants in their mothers' arms, and squeals of delight as children skip rocks in a stream.
Learning Together with Young Children
By Deb Curtis and Margie Carter
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Early childhood leaders Deb Curtis and Margie Carter have set the standard for creating and planning curriculum for young people by providing a state-of-the art model for child-centered, relationship-based teaching.
Combining in-depth theoretical principles with extensive practical applications, Learning Together with Young Children will:
inspire teachers to create a classroom culture that welcomes and nourishes children and families
help teachers choose materials and build environments that encourage imaginative play and exploration
help teachers support children’s connections with each other as they learn to represent their ideas
show teachers how, through thoughtful documentation, to reflect children’s ideas back to them
Learning Together with Young Children will help teachers reflect on their own professional influences and approach to teaching young children. They will learn to use multiple ways - stories, songs, art, and drama - to foster each child’s expression of his or her unique developmental journey.
The Visionary Director - Second Edition:
By Deb Curtis and Margie Carter
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Be inspired to create a larger vision in early child care with this practical, popular professional development tool. Thoroughly revised, the second edition of The Visionary Director offers a concrete framework for organizing your ideas and work. Reflecting new requirements and initiatives for centre directors, this handbook also addresses topics such as:
cultivating a vision
developing "systems thinking" for management roles
implementing principles and strategies for mentoring
building a learning community for adults and children
bringing your visions to life to perform your job with motivation and creativity
The Outdoor Playspace - Naturally
By Sue Elliott
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This publication will challenge your perceptions about early childhood outdoor playspaces and inspire change!
The Outdoor Playspace - Naturally arose from concerns shared by the editor and contributing authors about children’s playspaces in early childhood services in Australia. It reveals their concerns and offers guidance and information to early childhood educators, centre co-ordinators, management committees, designers and all those involved in the provision of early childhood services.
We can do better for children than quick fix, generic and synthetic playspaces and this publication provides the foundation for creating natural, dynamic and engaging playspaces. At its heart, the creation of a natural playspace is a collaborative venture between children, parents and staff that is locally vital and evolves over time. The inspiring photographs and case studies well illustrate the potential.
The authors of this publication are committed to change — change that will improve children’s outdoor play opportunities, health, well being, connections with nature and promote education for sustainability.
Insights: Behind Early Childhood Pedagogical Documentation
edited by Alma Fleet, Catherine patterson and Janet Robertson
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Built around stories of practice from Australia, New Zealand and America, this book raises questions and possibilities related to pedagogical documentation. As the introduction states: "people who choose to work in early childhood...want to explore their own practice and improve the work they are doing, learning from children, the community and each other... We designed this book to help the newer members of the professional community to gain access to the discussion, and also to engage those who have been thinking around these ideas for a longer period of time. Some people might enter this book as part of a course of study while others might dip into it individually or in groups to further their own reading."
It's Not a Bird Yet - The Drama of Drawing
by Ursula Kolbe
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Building on her enormously popular book, Rapunzels Supermarket: All About Young Children and Their Art, Ursula Kolbe takes an in-depth look at the rich possibilities of drawing. Filled with engaging anecdotes that illustrate the often-overlooked social dimension of drawing, It's Not A Bird Yet offers new ways of looking at drawing. Beautifully illustrated, it celebrates drawing as a powerful tool for thinking and imagining.
Rapunzel's Supermarket (2nd Edition)
by Ursula Kolbe
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This book shows young children as imaginative thinkers and explorers - artists as much as scientists - in a joyful quest to understand their world. A mix of inspiration and practical advice, it offers you many ideas for helping children realise their potential.
Start Smart
by Pam Schiller
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Building brain power in early years
This book offers simple, straightforward ways to boost brain power with active exploration, repetition, sensory exploration, laughter and more. All the chapters describe how and why the brain develops and explains how you can use the activities to give your children the best foundation for future learning.
Stories for telling
by Yvonne Winer
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A master story teller. Yvonne’s stories resonate with the music of exquisite language, encourage imagination, they make us laugh or gasp in wonder. Yvonne shares with us her incredible talent and artistry in a book that has taken several years to complete. It is finely crafted, creatively imagined, beautifully presented and will prove to be a treasure for generations of young children and the adults who love, educate and care for them. It is the work of a lifetime; bringing a lifetime’s joyous experiences with language, imagining, telling stories and making props. It is a book of incredible significance!
Joy Lubawy
Co-Author of Building Walls of Wombats and Preschool Math.
Art of Awareness
by Deb Curtis and Margie Carter
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Featuring nine observation study sessions, this book offers ideas, activities, and experiences. Chapters cover seven different aspects of children's lives and how to observe them, as well as tips for gathering and preparing documentation.
This is a must for staff doing documentation.
Designs for Living and Learning
by Deb Curtis and Margie Carter
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Drawing inspiration from a variety of approaches - from Waldorf and Montessori to Reggio To Greenman, Prescott, and Olds - the authors outline hundreds of ways to create healthy and inviting physical, social, and emotional environments for children in child care. Full-colour photographs of actual early childhood programs demonstrate that the spaces where children learn and grow can be comfortable for children, teachers and parents alike.
This is an excellent resource.
Reflections
by Jan Millikan
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The first Australian book on Reggio Emilia principles and the impact they have upon Australian Early Childhood Services. An excellent introduction for early childhood practitioners and students to the teaching principles of Reggio Emilia and the implications for care and education of young children in Australia. Central to the book's success is a synthesis of a number of discussions involving educators across Australia. Stories contributed by early childhood practitioners share individual responses to implementing Reggio Emilia principles within a variety of settings across age groups.
500 Five Minute Games
by Jackie Silberg
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Jam packed with games, songs and learning fun ideas perfectly suited for 3-6 year olds, this book is ideal to fill those extra five minutes with a developmentally appropriate activity.
The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays and Chants
by Jackie Silberg
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The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants gives children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and structural sequence-important building blocks for future readers. The 700 selections will help children ages 3 to 6 build a strong foundation in listening skills, imagination, coordination, and spatial and body awareness. In this giant book of rhythm and rhyme, you are sure to find your own childhood favorites!
Block Play: The Complete Guide to Learning and Playing with Blocks
by Sharon MacDonald
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A must-have for every teacher, Block Play enhances every preschool and kindergarten classroom's block corner with over 50 great activities. Clear descriptions of what children learn by playing with blocks accmpany the activities.
The Language of Art
by Ann Pelo
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The book is divided up into two parts. Part one, “Studio Exploration” provides guidelines for setting up a studio space in your child care environment and how to introduce children to art media through open-ended, full-bodied explorations developing their understanding of how a medium behaves, feels on their body, how it can be used and what skills and tools are needed to work with it.
Part two shows how children can use art as a tool for critical thinking, initially in everyday interactions and then expanding on these inquiries to build long term investigations. The final chapter tells the story of a long-term investigation of leaves, incorporating the principles and ideas expounded in the previous chapters.
About the author - Ann Pelo teaches three- to five-year-old children at Hilltop Children’s Centre in Seattle, and she is an instructor at the Seattle Institute for Early Childhood Development. She earned her master’s degree in child development and family studies from Purdue University.
Early Childhood Education and Care
by Susan Edwards
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Early Childhood Education and Care: A Sociocultural Approach celebrates the ideas of children, families and teachers. Drawn from research conducted with preschool teachers from the City of Casey, Vic., this book highlights how sociocultural theory can be used in practice. The City of Casey has one of the highest populations of children aged 0-4 in Australia. In a commitment to best practice, the City of Casey Managed Kindergartens embarked on a research project to develop new understandings of childrens development. Early Childhood Education and Care: A Sociocultural Approach traces the development of this project and through teacher examples and commentary shows how ideas from sociocultural theory can be and are realised in practice. This text provides a strong introduction to the key ideas emerging from sociocultural theory and is suitable for students, trainee teachers and practitioners interested in extending their thinking around key approaches to early childhood education and care, including observations, and programming and planning.
Sociocultural or cultural-historical theory has provided a useful framework for teachers, researchers and policy developers to imagine new and different possibilities for early childhood education. As a profession we have for too long recycled our practices and beliefs. Many of these practices and beliefs are Western in their origin. However, Australia is a culturally and linguistically diverse community and many early childhood practices may not be culturally relevant for all children and their families. The teachers who participated in the research that sits under this important book have questioned many common assumptions and practices for their cultural bias and have developed new approaches and tools.
Early Childhood Education and Care: A Sociocultural Approach represents a powerful and contemporary framework for action. As Vygotsky argued, thinking differently about something we know well, is not easy. But, as the teachers have shown through the pages of this book, the rewards are enormous.
Making Links
by Anne Stonehouse and Janet Gonzalez-Mena
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Written by two highly regarded early childhood professionals, this collaborative approach focuses on what you need to know about children, how you translate that information into plans and practice in programs, and ways to engage parents in the process. There are linking concepts that run through the entire book. They are:
authentic experiences
a broad approach to planning
parents and children as partners with practitioners
a positive image of the child
discipline and guidance
diversity and inclusion
More Mudpies to Magnets
by Robert A. Williams, Robert E. Rockwell and Elizabeth A. Sherwood
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Mudpies to Magnets and More Mudpies to Magnets books are filled with easy-to-use hands on, science experiments and activities which young children experience first-hand.
Mudpies to Magnets
by Robert A. Williams, Robert E. Rockwell and Elizabeth A. Sherwood
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Mudpies to Magnets and More Mudpies to Magnets books are filled with easy-to-use hands on, science experiments and activities which young children experience first-hand.
Magic of Relaxation
by Patrice Thomas
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This Australian book combines gentle exercises, progressive relaxation and visualisation techniques suitable for all children. Gentle exercises promote strength, flexibility, suppleness, coordination, and good posture. Relaxation techniques teach children the value of stillness and how to enjoy being calm, quiet and inwardly reflective. Most importantly, relaxation and Tai Chi are non-competitive, nurturing techniques that children of all ages can enjoy.
Inspiring Spaces for Young Children
By: Jessica Deviney, Sandra Duncan, Sara Harris, Mary Anne Rody, Lois Mitten Rosenberry
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Inspiring Spaces for Young Children invites teachers to enhance childrens educational environment by emphasising aesthetic environmental qualities that are often overlooked in early childhood classrooms, such as nature, color, furnishings, textures, displays, lighting, and focal points.
Full of easy ideas and lush photographs which incorporate nature, childrens artwork, and everyday classroom materials, this title will inspire educators to transform ordinary classrooms into creative, beautiful learning spaces, providing children with an environment where they can create, learn and grow.
Talkin' Up and Speakin' Out
By: Miriam Giugni and Kerry Mundine
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Talkin' Up and Speakin' Out is a book that enables the writes to express the silent fears of inequities and share professional thinking and reflections on practices within early childhood. The authors give readers a window into professional inequities and social justice issues, with a view to critically think, both inside and outside of practice, through multicultural voices.
Teaching Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
By Clarissa Willis
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Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder is a straightforward, easy-to-understand guide to working with children who have autism. It explains the major characteristics associated with autism and helps teachers understand the ways children with autism relate to the world. Each chapter offers specific strategies for teachers to use, including setting up a proactive preschool environment, helping children learn life skills, managing behavior, helping children with autism communicate, encouraging children with autism to play, helping them to get along with others, and working with families. Teaching Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder helps teachers connect with all children in meaningful ways, allowing children with autism to learn and grow.
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