Achieving Early Years Professional Status by Denise Reardon

Achieving Early Years Professional Status by Denise Reardon

Updates to this book are related to the revised "CWDC Candidate Handbook 2009". The Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) award is aimed at early years practitioners and graduates seeking a career in the early years sector. The award offers the opportunity to engage in reflection, identify professional development needs and develop interpersonal skills, empowering candidates to lead high quality practice in early years settings. This book provides advice and guidance on every part of the process, including: what EYPS is and why it's important; how to gain EYPS via the various training pathways; how to meet the EYP standards; how to identify effective leadership characteristics; ways to model, support and promote good outcomes for children; ways to develop and mentor early years practitioners; and, how to work in partnership with children, families and other professionals. Each chapter includes reference to the EYPS standards, photographs to illustrate practice, case study material, reflective practice tasks, links to other EYP standards (where appropriate), suggested further reading and useful websites. Denise Reardon worked as an early years teacher before moving into further and higher education and becoming Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) Programme Director at Canterbury Christ Church University.

'I would recommend this book for anyone embarking on a career in early years or for practitioners seeking to enhance their professional profile within the context of high quality practice in early years settings' - Early Years Educator 'This book is ideal for anyone wanting to achieve this awardIt is a very accessible and comprehensive text' - Early Years Educator '[T]his is a very valuable resource for existing and aspiring EYP candidates, particularly as there are very few similar resources currently available' - Early Years Update 'The strength of this book lies in its knowledge base. Readers may absorb this as a means of assuring themselves of the need to achieve a certain level of professionalism, more particularly Early Years Professional Status...Achieving Early Years Professional Status is a valuable addition to the range of literature currently available to the early years practitioners, students and lecturers' - ESCalate 'Oh how I wish I had bought Denise Reardon's book before I embarked on my training...The occasional humorous notes, research, expert quotes and personal experiences make it an inspirational and informative read' - Children and Young People Now 'In this book, Denise Reardon offers EYP candidates a thorough analysis of the EYPS process from the outset through to validation. She explores the new role of EYP within the current national early years context with insight and, using her own recent experience she provides candidates with invaluable, deeply thoughtful and effective guidance. With a focus throughout on ensuring success and effecting change through reflection and analysis, this book is essential reading for EYPS candidates' - Viki Bennett, Principal Lecturer and Programme Leader for the Early Years Foundation Degree, Bath Spa University

Reardon, Denise: - Denise Reardon is an established author who has been successfully involved in early years teaching, training and lecturing for over 30 years. She has taught early years children in nurseries and schools and worked as a Local Authority Early Years Advisory Teacher. She has also been instrumental in leading a wide number of national early years initiatives and programmes spanning both further education (Canterbury and North-West Kent) and the higher education sector (Canterbury Christchurch University), She has successfully written and co-authored foundation, bachelors and Master degrees for early years teachers, educators and practitioners. Her Masters dissertation in Education Leadership explores team working and was used to inform previous publications of this book. Denise has recently retired from being the Early Years Teacher, Programme Director at Canterbury Christchurch University to concentrate on her writing, three early years grandchildren and now sits on the 'Early Years Teacher' advisory board at Middlesex University and is a member of the world Preschool Association (OMEP) an international non - governmental and non-profit organisation with consultative status at the United Nations and UNESCO. Denise has a particular interest in early years creativity and the evolving role of the Early Years teacher.

Denise Reardon, Dilys Wilson and Dympna Fox Reed will be discussing ideas from Early Years Teaching and Learning in Doing Your Early Years Research Project, a SAGE Masterclass for early years students and practitioners in collaboration with Kathy Brodie. Find out more here.

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ISBN 13	9781847871909
ISBN 10	1847871909
Title	Achieving Early Years Professional Status
Author	Denise Reardon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Sage Publications Ltd
Year published	2009-04-18
Number of pages	224
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.