Managing Behaviour in the Early Years

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A practical guide to managing children's behaviour in childcare and early years settings. Brimming with tips and suggestions on how practitioners can help young children to learn, Janet Kay demonstrates how a variety of positive methods can encourage the development of appropriate behaviour. Accessibly and engagingly written, this guide will prove invaluable for early years' practitioners everywhere.

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'Janet Kay is clear about the need to avoid presuppositions when thinking about factors that might influence behaviour and what actually happens with real children. She provides good advice on topics such as learning difficulties, autism and ADHD. She has sensible words on how and why behaviour policy documents should be written...the book...demonstrates convincingly the difficult diference between mereky containing unwanted behaviour and providing circumstances in which it can change for the better.' - Tom Deveson Music Teacher 'One of Janet Lay's striking phrases - 'difference as ordinary' - is more than a way of thinking about how to furnish settings for children with special educational needs. Considered more deeply, it is a defining characteristic of music itself.' -- Tom Deveson
'a well thought out and readable book that promotes a positive view of behaviour management underpinned by current thinking and clear principles. It is a very useful text and I would recommend it to anyone working with this age group.' ~ Cathy Ruffler, Early Years Area SENCO, Special! Autumn 2006
'[A] well-informed and well-referenced guide to its subject. It balances practical advice with sound theory in a very informative and well-presented package. It should appeal to a wide variety of practitioners as well as to anyone with a personal interest in the subject.' ~ Nigel Peacock, Special!, January 2007 -- Nigel Peacock, Gateshead Behaviour Support Service
"Kay has good advice about the management of schools and settings, pointing out the importance of clear expectations, shared by everyone and consistently applied" * TES *

Author Bio

Janet Kay is a Principal Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies at Sheffield Hallam University, UK.