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| Professional Development Conversations Cycle |
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Review and develop professional practice |
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Professional conversations are designed to help an early years professional to review, reflect on and develop their professional practice.
We've published a new tool, ‘Professional Development Conversations Cycle’ to support our ‘Guide to Effective Professional Development in the Early Years’.
This practical tool gives you a structure for an ongoing cycle of professional conversations.
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| Using evidence to sustain effective professional development |
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Structure professional conversations |
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"Use this tool as a structure to implement professional conversations that are continuous, set goals and use evidence to sustain effective professional development."
Our early years content specialist, Nicola Cherry, reveals how our new tool can help to create a structure for ongoing professional conversations.
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| Funded professional development opportunities |
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Opportunites for the early years |
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The EEF is funding access to 8 professional development programmes for early years settings in collaboration with Stronger Practice Hubs and the DfE.
By signing up, you can:
• Access free professional development for your staff and setting.
• Support the early maths or language development of children in your setting.
• Receive a contribution to staffing costs for taking part.
• Contribute to developing evidence on what works in the early years.
• Receive a thank you payment for taking part in research activities.
Use the link below to search what’s available to your setting, refreshing the page to see new projects.
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| Early language support |
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We're running a survey with University of Coventry to find out about the approaches early years settings use to support children’s language development.
Can you tell us about how you use role play, storytime and language groups in your setting by completing this survey?
The information will be used to understand if we can study questions like: what approach has most impact, planned storytimes or impromptu storytime? Deconstructed role play area or adult-led role play area?
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