This guide to planning within early years settings from Jennie Lindon provides practitioners and managers alike with a walkthrough of how to develop the skills necessary for child-centred planning. This accessible title offers practical advice on:

• Effective planning for the learning environment and routines
• Supporting young learners through a child-centred approach
• What best practice for young children looks like in action
• Leading good practice so that others understand the key issues and pathways to improving current practice
• Using written plans, including how to use topic planning.

This highly usable book contains suggestions for reflection, links to current practice, bite-sized chunks of practical advice, case studies and full colour examples in each section - all of which help early years practitioners understand a child-centred approach to planning.

About the author  

Planning for Effective Early Learning is written by Jennie Lindon, an established author who has written over 30 titles on early years education and care. Jennie is a chartered psychologist and child psychologist by trade and today works as an early years consultant. Jennie has over 30 years experience of working with a very wide range of settings and services within early years care, education, playwork and out-of-school care, as well as with residential and foster care and her writing reflects the many settings she has worked with.

Reviews

"This book is all about helping to support practitioners in developing professional skills, and in developing a child-centred approach to planning. It offers practical, down-to-earth, open, honest and evidence-based advice on planning that genuinely supports young children (including the 'under-threes') thinking about routines and the enabling learning environment, while helping to reduce anxiety around the obligation to plan ... This book is a recommended and clear read that will illuminate a subject that can cause some confusion in the workforce." Martine Horvath, Early Years Educator 

“The A4 format and colour photographs make the book attractive to look at, while Jennie Lindon’s easily understood writing style ensures the information is very accessible … Arranged in three chapters, this book looks first at planning as a flexible and thoughtful process, and covers why the process is important and the meaning of ‘planning’ and ‘plans’. It then goes on to look at planning through the organisation of the learning environment, including practical examples of what best practice looks like. Finally, it takes a step back and considers the role of managers and senior practitioners in supporting colleagues towards best practice. Each chapter is illustrated with colour photographs of children and practitioners involved in interesting and exciting experiences, which help to bring the text alive …  This is a very useful, accessible and practical guide which practitioners will find invaluable in helping them and their colleagues to see planning as an active, forward-thinking and exciting process, enjoyable for both adults and children.” Early Years Update