Early Years Library Introductory Workshop for Early Years Educators

On this page you will find all the resources needed for the Early Years Library Introductory Workshop for Early Years Educators.

If you are acting as an Early Years Library leader or champion in your nursery, you should do the Introductory Workshop for Early Years Leaders.

Start with the welcome video, further below, which will give you a brief introduction to the workshop.

Then watch the other, proceeding videos in order. You should use the dedicated Introductory Workbook for Early Years Educators for all of the videos and activities.

Make sure you have at least one other member of your team to discuss ideas with. The videos are very short, but most videos are also accompanied by an activity in the workbooks, which may take 10-15 minutes each.

Welcome video

Part 1: Introduction to the Early Years Library

1. The 10 teaching strategies.

For this video, you will need your introductory workbook (activity 1).

2. The Early Years Library teaching strategies

For this video, you will need your introductory workbook (activities 2, 3 and 4) and the Early Years Library overview booklet called ‘Introduction to the Early Years Library for educators’.

Extra materials: Model answer sheet

3. How the Early Years Library booklets are structured

For this video, you will need your introductory workbook (activity 5) and the Early Years Library booklets.

Part 2: How to use the Early Years Library

4. Reflecting on quality – introducing the user principles

For this video, you will need your introductory workbook (activity 6) and the video below in the extra materials.

Extra materials: For this activity, you will need to access this freely accessible video from the EEF evidence store. (You will need to scroll right down to the bottom of the page to find the videos. The video is called Number Game and is the furthest right of the videos in this series.)

5. Techniques for professional learning used in the Early Years Library

For this video, you will need your introductory workbook (activity 7) and the video below in the extra materials.

You might want to have the paired reflection templates close by to refer to. You can find them in your Early Years Library toolkit (blue folder).

6. Role within the team

7. Roadmap

Part 3 – Embedding the Early Years Library strategies into daily practice

8. Taking stock

For this video, you will need your introductory workbook (activity 8).

9. Beyond the first activities

For this video, you will need your introductory workbook (activity 9) and the video below in the extra materials.

Extra materials: For this activity, you will need to access this freely accessible video from the EEF evidence store. (You will need to scroll right down to the bottom of the page to find the videos. The video is called Lunchtime Worries and is the furthest right of the videos in this series.)

10. Revisiting the principles for using the Early Years Library

For this video, you will need your introductory workbook (activity 10).

11. Revisiting reflection and professional conversations

For this video, you will need your introductory workbook (activity 11).