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New evidence-based guidance on supporting children's self awareness of feelings and actions

New guidance for early years educators on how to support children’s executive function and self-regulation has been published.
The EEF has added a new theme on children's self-regulation and executive function to its Evidence Store, PHOTO: Adobe Stock
The EEF has added a new theme on children's self-regulation and executive function to its Evidence Store, PHOTO: Adobe Stock

The free to access support has been published under the Education Education Endowment Foundation’s (EEF) Early Years Evidence Store, an online library of evidence-informed guidance to support practitioners.

Evidence-Based Practice: Using the Education Endowment Foundations' toolkit to support self-regulation

The Store was developed as part of the EEF’s work supporting the Department for Education’s Stronger Practice Hubs.

The guidance on supporting young children’s executive function and self-regulation highlights five approaches that practitioner can include within their practice, they are:

It explains specific strategies and within each approach, such as explicitly summarising how children are progressing towards a common goal during group play to support their collaboration skills, or encouraging children to create hypothetical ‘Imagine if….’ Scenarios to extend and challenge them.

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