Full Description
How to Use Work Group Supervision to Improve Early Years Practice presents a new model for supervision as a collaborative process, and explores how this process can benefit practitioners at all stages in their career to reflect on and improve their own practice. Supported by detailed case studies which contextualise Work Group Supervision, Louis offers practical support which will help practitioners develop their knowledge and skills, and to work together to develop a shared understanding and more successful practice.
Louis covers a range of insightful topics to help practitioners utilise the Work Group Supervision method to improve their practice, including:
What Work Group Supervision is and how it can help practitioners
How to develop self-understanding and professional practice
Theories on child observation, and using observation to tune into children
The importance of respectful interactions as a leader and among peers
How to Use Work Group Supervision to Improve Early Years Practice is ideal for Early Years practitioners and teachers, managers of Early Years settings and students on courses for leadership in Early Childhood settings.
Contents
About this book Introduction 1 Theorists of child observations 2 The role of the Early Years educator and observation 3 What do we see when children play? 4 Schemas - the key to patterns of behaviour 5 What is supervision? 6 Implementing Work Group Supervision and Bringing observational practice into focus using Work Group Supervision 7 Group consultation 8 Work Group Supervision in practice - Developing pedagogy, self-understanding and team work 9 Using observation to tune into children - and its challenges 10 Respectful interactions are everything 11 Developing professional practice through Work Group Supervision
