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Child Behaviour: Understand young children's individual learning styles

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

| Nursery World

‘Conation’ is the will or urge to do something. Helen Garnett explores the importance of understanding children's different styles of motivation for learning and development

A Unique Child: Tantrum talk

Features

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

| Nursery World

Is the word ‘tantrum’ now inappropriate? Annette Rawstrone speaks to experts on different sides of the debate around this common behaviour

Best Practice: Behaviour – Look at me!

Features

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

| Nursery World

Attention-seeking is often dismissed as a negative behaviour, but it actually has an important role to play in children’s development, explains Caroline Vollans

Positive relationships - On impulse

Features

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

| Nursery World

In this extract from new Early Years Alliance publication Prioritising Children's Mental Health and Wellbeing, Donna Gaywood unpicks the assumptions behind many behaviour policies and finds deeper methods to help children manage their emotions

Behaviour: Distress - Comfort zone

Features

Monday, March 4, 2019

| Nursery World

Understanding and responding to young children’s distress is vital to their future mental health, explains Debbie Brace

EYFS best practice: All about… Rough and tumble

Features

Monday, March 4, 2019

| Nursery World

Why does rough and tumble play benefit children and how can practitioners enable it in a positive and safe way? Meredith Jones Russell reports

Child Behaviour: Time to talk?

Features

Monday, February 4, 2019

| Nursery World

Supporting the learning of introverted children means first getting to know them and being sensitive to their needs, explains Nicola Stobbs

Emotional Development - Time to Reflect

Features

Monday, October 15, 2018

| Nursery World

Reflect is an innovative approach to supporting children’s emotional development and resilience through working with pre-school practitioners. Zoe Stephens and Gill Holt explain the method and its outcomes

Troubled teens left in limbo

Features

Monday, May 30, 2016

| Nursery World

The ‘epidemic’ requires a mix of early intervention and later support services, finds Charlotte Goddard

A Unique Child: Nurture Groups - Well nourished

Features

Monday, May 30, 2016

| Nursery World

Nurture Groups offer children and young people with difficult emotional, social and behavioural needs a safe place within their school where their problems can be addressed. By Caroline Vollans

A Unique Child: Inclusion - Family values

Features

Monday, November 16, 2015

| Nursery World

An inclusive programme is developing parents’ self-esteem and family relationships by looking at the importance of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Annette Rawstrone explains

A Unique Child: Art Therapy - Art work

Features

Monday, August 10, 2015

| Nursery World

At one nursery in London, an art therapist is helping young children with a range of difficulties - in a purpose-built garden 'shed'. Caroline Vollans finds out about the benefits

A Unique Child: SEND Code of Practice - Shared thinking

Features

Monday, July 13, 2015

| Nursery World

When faced with behavioural challenges, practitioners should embrace the opportunity to learn more about children and develop effective strategies to support them, says Dr Kay Mathieson.

Catch it when you can

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

| Nursery World

Two-year-olds: Child Behaviour - Tune in

Features

Friday, June 28, 2013

| Nursery World

Mindful carers are needed to ensure that children with different needs get the right amount of stimulation. Anne O'Connor explains.

EYFS: Progress Check at two - Step two

Features

Friday, April 27, 2012

| Nursery World

The 'Know How' guide will see you through the progress check at two, says Susan Soar, development officer, National Children's Bureau.

A Unique Child: Outdoors - Practice in Pictures - In the mix

Features

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

| Nursery World

The benefits for children of playing in a mixed age group are explored by Anne O'Connor, with advice for practitioners on reinforcing it

A Unique Child: Wrestling - Roll with it

Features

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

| Nursery World

Young boys seem to have a natural urge to wrestle with each other, so what stance should childcarers take? asks Annette Rawstrone.

A Unique Child: The Developing Brain, part 1 - Life before birth

Features

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

| Nursery World

In its last few weeks in the womb a baby is already busy learning, says Annette Karmiloff-Smith, in the first of a new series on the developing brain.

A unique child - Child development - As a whole

Features

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

| Nursery World

Thoughtful practitioners will identify what may be preventing children from doing their best, as Chris Dukes and Maggie Smith demonstrate.

A Unique Child: Shock effects: Post traumatic stress disorder

Features

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

| Nursery World

Children may remain emotionally affected long after an accident. Annette Rawstrone hears how.

A Unique Child: Inclusion - On target

Features

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

| Nursery World

Burnwood Nursery School has cut dramatically its number of children on the special needs register. Head teacher Juliet Levingstone explains how, in the second of a series on Stoke-on-Trent's nursery schools.

Unique Child: Practice in pictures - When friends fall out

Features

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

| Nursery World

While children will squabble from time to time, they are usually practising negotiating techniques. The skill for adults is to know when to step in or step back and let them get on with it, explains Anne O'Connor.