Achieving Early Years Professional Status

Achieving Early Years Professional Status

by Denise Reardon (Author)

Synopsis

Additional resources available online! Encompassing the Teaching Agency 2012 new-era EYPS standards, this new edition provides up-to-date advice and guidance grounded in current reading, research and government policy for all those training to achieve Early Years Professional Status (EYPS). The new edition features: - the Teaching Agency (2012) EYPS national standards - the new-era EYPS assessment process - explicit information on the new-era EYPS national requirements - ideas and examples of early years leadership and practice - more on how to manage change. The book offers support to those on all four pathways to achieve EYPS: - Undergraduate Entry Pathway (UEP) - Undergraduate Practitioner Pathway (UPP) - Graduate Entry Pathway (GEP) - Graduate Practitioner Pathway (GPP). Each chapter includes case studies, photographs illustrating practice, reflective practice tasks and suggested further reading and useful Websites. Journal articles linked to each chapter are available to read online via the SAGE website at www.sagepub.co.uk/Reardon2e Denise Reardon is Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) Programme Director at Canterbury Christ Church University. 'Denise's second edition of Achieving Early Years Professional Status is every bit as readable and useful as its forerunner. Updated to reflect both the 2012 EYPS Standards and current government policy, including on safeguarding, this book offers us a menu of engaging explanatory accounts and insights that both support and challenge aspiring and existing Early Years Professionals, so that they can better reflect on their own and others' practice and take positive actions to improve the life chances of our youngest children.' - Maureen Lee, Programme Leader for EYPS and Director of Early Years, Best Practice Network

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 224
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 22 Apr 2009

ISBN 10: 1847871909
ISBN 13: 9781847871909

Media Reviews
'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 award.It 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