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1 online resource (85 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Introduction to the Sustained Shared Thinking and Emotional Well-being (SSTEW) Scale -- Rationale for the Development of the SSTEW Scale -- Rationale for the Second Edition of the SSTEW Scale -- The Underlying Principles of the SSTEW Scale -- Relational Pedagogy -- Intentional Pedagogy -- Aspects of Child Development and Accompanying Theories, Relevant to the SSTEW Scale -- 1. Social Development -- 2. Emotional Development |
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3. Cognitive Development -- 4. Play -- The Structure of the SSTEW Scale: Principles and Practice -- Content of the SSTEW Scale -- Preparing to use the SSTEW Scale -- Important Guidance before you Start -- Making Judgements -- Conducting an Observation -- Scoring the SSTEW Scale -- About the SSTEW Scale Score Sheet, Profile and Joint Observation Sheets -- Subscale 1: Building Trust, Confidence and Self-Regulation -- Item 1: Self-Regulation and Social Development -- Item 2: Encouraging Choice and Independent Play -- Item 3: Supporting Social-Emotional Well-Being |
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Item 4: Sensitive Responsiveness -- Subscale 2: Supporting and Extending Language and Communication -- Item 5: Encouraging Children to Talk with Others -- Item 6: Staff Actively Listen to Children and Encourage Children to Listen -- Item 7: Staff Support Children's Language Use -- Item 8: Assessing Language Development -- Subscale 3: Supporting Learning and Critical Thinking -- Item 9: Supporting Curiosity and Problem Solving -- Item 10: Encouraging Sustained Shared Thinking through Storytelling, Sharing books, Singing and Rhymes |
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Item 11: Encouraging Sustained Shared Thinking in Investigation and Exploration -- Item 12: Supporting Children's Concept Development and Higher-Order Thinking -- Subscale 4: Planning and Authentic Assessment -- Item 13: Planning for Small Group and Adult Interactions/Adult Deployment -- Item 14: Supporting all Children's Engagement and Learning -- Item 15: Using Assessment to Support and Extend Learning and Critical Thinking -- The SSTEW Scale Score Sheet -- Rough Plan of Indoor and Outdoor Areas being Observed -- Score Sheets -- The SSTEW Scale Profile |
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Joint Observation/Inter-rater Reliability for the SSTEW Scale -- References |
| Summary |
First published in 2015, The SSTEW Scale has been widely used in early childhood education and care, in all sectors across the world, to enhance the quality of education, and monitor and assess practice. It explores pedagogy and practice that improve children's social-emotional development, self-regulation, language, and critical thinking. The SSTEW Scale is an innovative method of assessing the process quality of an early years education environment and pedagogy. It promotes practice where staff provide sensitive, responsive relationships and high-quality interactions, which includes supporting children's social, emotional and communication skills. This scale also helps educators to engage children in thinking deeply, problem solving and reasoning, including items which support the four competencies: critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration, all identified as life-long skills needed for all children in the 21st century by the World Economic Forum in 2016. This new edition includes updated information about the evidence-base for SSTEW and children's development and learning as well as the expansion of examples and supplementary information accompanying the indicators. In addition, there is a stronger focus on formative assessment and new additions to the assessment section. The SSTEW Scale can be used to support research, auditing and practice uplift. It is a key text for the sector to assess and improve the quality of provision during audits, and for educators seeking professional development by improving their knowledge of excellent practice |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Iram Siraj is Professor of Child Development and Education at the University of Oxford, UK. Denise Kingston is a senior researcher at the University of Oxford and honorary research fellow at the University of Sussex, UK. Edward Melhuish is Professor of Human Development at the University of Oxford, and Birkbeck, University of London |
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Early childhood education -- Evaluation
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Child development -- Evaluation
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Social learning.
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Critical pedagogy.
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Classroom environment -- Evaluation
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EDUCATION / Elementary
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EDUCATION / Leadership
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EDUCATION / Educational Psychology
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Child development -- Evaluation.
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Classroom environment -- Evaluation.
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Critical pedagogy.
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Early childhood education -- Evaluation.
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Social learning.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kingston, Denise.
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Melhuish, Edward C., 1950-
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| ISBN |
9781000917901 |
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1000917908 |
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9781003379867 |
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1003379869 |
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1000917959 |
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9781000917956 |
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