Early Years Teacher Status
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Early Years Teacher trainees down for a third year
New statistics show that the number of students starting Early Years Initial Teacher Training (EYITT) is continuing to fall with just 595 new entrants in 2017-18.
EYT Status Series

Early Years Teacher, Part 1 - A new door opens
What does the future hold for the Early Years Teacher role? Kathy Brodie introduces our new series, which...
Early Years Teacher, Standard 1 - Expect the best
Karen Hart unpicks Standard 1 of the Early Years Teacher criteria, and offers an insight into how trainees...
Early Years Teacher, Standard 2 - Help their minds to grow
Karen Hart unpicks Standard 2 of the Early Years Teacher criteria and suggests how practitioners might...
Early Years Teacher, Standard 3 - Taking the longer view
Standard 3 is all about understanding the continuum of learning, from the EYFS through to Key Stages...
Early Years: Teacher, standard 4 - Plan, do and review
Skills in observation and assessing a child's needs are key to meeting the requirements of Standard...
Early Years Teacher: Standard 5 - The right support to meet children's needs
Karen Hart explains how Standard 5 asks practitioners to evidence and meet the specific needs of individual...
Early Years Teacher: Standard 6 - Use assessment to benefit learning
Karen Hart sets out the essential points
Early Years Teacher: Standard 7 - Sharpen your focus on children's welfare
Karen Hart investigates Standard 7 in detail, considering the ways in which Early Years Teachers should...
Early Years Teacher: Standard 8 - Time to use your breadth of skills
Standard 8 pulls together everything that has been explored as part of the EYTS programme, as Karen...
EYT Status News
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Early Years Teachers 'doing more work for same pay'
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Network for Early Years Teachers launches next month
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Early Years Teacher trainees down for a third year
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Early Years Teacher survey opens
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Two early years teacher courses 'require improvement'
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Call for early years teachers to lead nurseries in poorer areas
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Report calls for QTS for 'devalued' early years teachers
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Most parents want early years teachers in nurseries
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An early years teacher needed in 'every setting in deprived areas'
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Early Years Teachers launch campaign to demand teacher status
Award Winners
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Nursery World Awards 16: Individuals - Early Years Professional/Early Years Teacher of the Year
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Nursery World Awards 15: Individuals - Early Years Professional/Teacher of the Year
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Nursery World Awards 14: Individuals - Early Years Professional of the Year
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Nursery World Awards 2013: Individuals - Early Years Professional of the Year
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Awards 2012: Individuals - Early Years Professional of the year
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Awards 2011: Individuals - Early Years Professional of the year
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Nursery World Awards 2010: Individuals - Early Years Professional of the Year
EYT Status Comment

A question of status
Dr Eunice Lumsden gives her views on the recent London School of Economics research, which found that...
Do graduates and ratings really make no difference?
Following a study claiming that graduate staff and Ofsted Outstandings have little impact on children’s...
Nursery teachers are not the only answer to closing the gap
Sue Martin, professor of early childhood education in Toronto, says that Save the Children's call for...
The time is right for a Royal College for Early Childhood
Eunice Lumsden, head of Early Years at University of Northampton, argues that professionalising the workforce...
Diary of a trainee Early Years Teacher
Part 5: Trainee EYT Emma Davis on the benefits - and disadvantages - of juggling manager duties with...