I use clay all the time with children and young people. Research shows that manipulating clay is therapeutic and clay is also forgiving. If a child creates something that doesn't align with what they had in mind, they can squish it and start again. #edusky
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Have you read this? An inspecttorate that values early years ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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I’m a Consultant, Author, Trainer, you hum it and I’ll play it in ECEC. Love working alongside teams in the environment and getting my hands dirty, also equally at home running training, webinars and speaking at events.
My mantra is ‘What? Why? How?’
UK based writer / teacher / CPD provider / presenter. I help to run a preschool. I love gardening and my allotment. She/her. Author of 30+ books for teachers.
Please contact me via my website for CPD/INSET bookings and writing queries. www.suecowley.co.uk
The Association of Teachers of Mathematics (ATM), is an independent association of educators who work together to improve the mathematics experience of all learners. www.atm.org.uk
The Mathematical Association supports and enhances the teaching and learning of mathematics and its applications.
www.m-a.org.uk
Award winning Early Years and Primary Advisor, lead curriculum developer and author. Unashamedly child - centred EY nerd. Occasionally outspoken rebel with a cause. No unsolicited DM’s unless I know you, thanks.
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Play Pedagogy Officer @Play Scotland. Championing children’s right to play in Scotland, inspiring & supporting educators to embrace play-based learning in schools. MEd student, bookworm, and cake lover. ❤️ All views my own! 🙈🙉🙊
Lecturer, Early Years and Childhood Studies, UCC School of Education. Co-Researcher Nurture through Nature. Froebel,Nature STEAM,Aistear,Action Lesotho.
Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Academic and University Lecturer @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk focusing on Early Years Education, Finland's education system, and Nordic education in general.
🌟Assistant Head Teacher Sheringham Nursery School & Children’s Centre
🌟Director @elresearchsch.bsky.social
🌟#earlyyears
https://sheringham-nur.org.uk
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The Original Learning Approach is a play responsive pedagogy rooted in social justice
Play activist - because if play flows the children will thrive.
Some words that feel important to me
Collective autonomy, decolonisation, wonder, curiosity, joy...
Early Childhood Education, Symbolic Play (also known as learning, or ‘play’ - I’m calling it ‘plearning’), Creativity, Justice.
Organizations: Early Education, SEBDA, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy 0-11 at UCL
Also @Edtangled, on the old platform!
Early childhood education academic, enthusiastic posthuman theorist and research collaborator. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6247-8363
The British Educational Research Association (BERA) is the leading authority on educational research in the UK.
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Educator, Author of The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It)
Early childhood teacher educator (UCLL) and enthusiast, interested in play-full-of-being-and-thinking-and-learning, children’s agency, visible learning in loose parts play, learning stories, schemas, doers and makers and also in a couple of other things 🫣
MEd Yr 2 Early Years Pedagogue Student / BACP Graduate 2024 Strathclyde University. Froebelian ~ Froebel in Childhood Practice ~ Passionate about Woodworking across Early Level ~ Peep trained practitioner
Fighting to save maintained nursery schools, play and child-centred teaching. #respectearlyyears ❤️NEU
When I am not riding my bike, paddling my canoe or wandering in the mountains, I'm focused on reviewing the Scottish Curriculum. Currently working at @EducationScotland
Retired MNS/CC Headteacher. Author, consultant, trainer and speaker. Proud grandmother and mother. Enjoys friends, nature, travel, pets, gardening, music, art and craft, walking and exploring.
