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A Practical Guide To Working With Children
Egle
ISBN 9780864583789   ISBN 10: 0864583788   ©2004

A Practical Guide to Working with Children offers the foundation knowledge and skills required to provide quality care for young children. In addition to a fundamental understanding of child develop...
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Birth to Big School, 2e
Karen Kearns
ISBN 9781442511415   ISBN 10: 1442511419   ©2010

Birth to Big School, 2nd edition, is written to support delivery of units in the Certificate III in Children’s Services. The text focuses on development in early and middle childhood, and covers...
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Development, Observation And Planning
Gerke
ISBN 9780864584625   ISBN 10: 0864584628   ©2005

Development, Observation and Planning are the basis of caring for young children. Together with the information shared by the child’s family, our interactions, reactions, responses, and planning...
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Enhancing Children's Development
Dau, Elizabeth
ISBN 9780864583666   ISBN 10: 0864583664   ©2004

Written by specialists in the field of children's development, the diverse range of topics covered in this text include: roles and responsibilities safe and healthy environments chil...
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Frameworks for Learning and Development, 2e
Karen Kearns
ISBN 9781442514287   ISBN 10: 1442514280   ©2010

Written to support delivery of units in the Diploma of Children’s Services, this text explores children’s development, and the skills and philosophies needed to design programs for individ...
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Just Discover! Connecting Young Children
Young/Elliott
ISBN 9780864583697   ISBN 10: 0864583699   ©2004

How can we help children develop a connection with nature? The answer to this question can be explored with the range of practical and creative natural science experiences provided in Just Discover! T...
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Just Imagine! Creative Play Experiences for Children Under Six, 2e
Sue Crook, Betty Farmer, Gary Medlicott
ISBN 9780864582751   ISBN 10: 0864582757   ©2003

The creative play experience is vital for the stimulation of children's imagination. It offers opportunities for children to learn, express themselves and interact with others. Just Imagine! provide...
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Just Improvise! Innovative Play Experiences for Children Under Eight
Sue Crook And Gary Medlicott
ISBN 9780864584618   ISBN 10: 086458461X   ©2004

What is improvisation in an early childhood setting? Why is it important and what does it achieve? Some of the advantages of improvising play materials are quite surprising and extend beyond encoura...
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Just Investigate! Science And Technology Experiences for Young Children
Young/Elliott
ISBN 9780864583703   ISBN 10: 0864583702   ©2004

What is science and what is technology within an early childhood program? Is technology just about computers? The answer to these questions can be explored with the range of practical and creative s...
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Program Planning For Infants and Toddlers: An Ecological Approach
Teresa Hutchins ; Margaret Sims
ISBN 9780724806324   ISBN 10: 0724806326   ©1999

Program Planning for Infants and Toddlers aims to provide a framework for students and practitioners in child care settings. It blends a strongly practical focus with a discussion of contemporary chil...
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Ready.Set.Go> Certificate III in Children's Services
Karen Kearns
ISBN 9781442512917   ISBN 10: 1442512911   ©2009

Pearson Ready.Set.Go> lets you start training sooner. The Ready.Set.Go> Delivery and Assessment kit takes much of the hard work out of getting a qualification on your organisation’s sc...
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Ready.Set.Go> Diploma of Children's Services
Karen Kearns
ISBN 9781442512931   ISBN 10: 1442512938   ©2010

Pearson Ready.Set.Go> lets you start training sooner. The Ready.Set.Go> Delivery and Assessment kit takes much of the hard work out of getting a qualification on your organisation’s sc...
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Simply Create!: Providing opportunities for young children to express themselves
Kerryn Jones
ISBN 9780864584595   ISBN 10: 0864584598   ©2005

Children express numerous possiblities for thinking and being through their play, including ideas, feelings, knowledge and understandings. Simply Create! helps the early childhood educator to plan a...
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Simply Music!
Kazimiere
ISBN 9780864584540   ISBN 10: 0864584547   ©2005

Involvement with music is an enriching experience for children. Through music, children make discoveries about their body, their voice and their connections to the world around them. Music enhances th...
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Simply Poetry!: Exploring the world of young children through poetry
Ellinor Campbell ; David Campbell ; Cathy Scott
ISBN 9780864585592   ISBN 10: 0864585594   ©2005

Children are avid listeners, and begin testing and playing with sounds at a very early age. Poetry can be a very effective medium when linked to things that fascinate children. Simply Poetry! shows,...
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Simply Storytelling!
Evans
ISBN 9780864588104   ISBN 10: 0864588100   ©2007

Simply Storytelling! details how to improvise and innovate story time without the use of books! Telling stories rather than reading them stimulates children's imaginations, encourages conversation a...
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The Anti-Bias Approach In Early Childhood, 2e
Elizabeth Dau
ISBN 9780733909559   ISBN 10: 0733909558   ©2001

This innovative Australian text addressing aspects of diversity such as gender, race and language is now available in a second fully revised edition.
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The Big Picture, 2e
Karen Kearns
ISBN 9781442514270   ISBN 10: 1442514272   ©2010

Written to support delivery of units in the Certificate III in Children’s Services from CHC08, this text provides a solid introduction to working in children’s services. Online preview &g...
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The Business of Childcare, 2e
Karen Kearns
ISBN 9781442514294   ISBN 10: 1442514299   ©2010

Introduces students to the business side of planning, supervising and co-ordinating the day to day operation of a children’s service. This text supports delivery of the Diploma of Children's Ser...
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The Business of Childcare: Working in Children's Services
Karen Kearns ; Bev Austin
ISBN 9780733986086   ISBN 10: 0733986080   ©2007

The Business of Childcare is written to support delivery of the Diploma in Children's Services.  The text is all about the business side of planning, supervising and co-ordinating the day to...
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