Mosley Jenny. Circle Time for Young Children

Routledge : Taylor& Francis, 2005. — 132 p. — (Nursery World : Essential Guides for Early Years Practiioners).Circle Time is a simple yet effective strategy proven to be one of the most effective ways of promoting positive behaviour and respectful relationships in Early Years environments.
This highly practical book explains how to put principles for Early Years education into practice through well-structured and purposeful Circle Time-based lesson plans. Jenny Mosley, the UK’s leading expert on Circle Time, provides accessible guidance on:
Incorporating the curriculum for personal, social and emotional development;
Enabling children to understand universal moral skills;
Developing young children’s Emotional Intelligence;
Helping them to practise problem-solving skills.Each chapter in this book explains Circle Time in a ‘why? what? how?’ format, and includes tick-sheets, bullet-pointed pages and plenty of examples of how the rationale works in practice. Early Years practitioners in nurseries, pre-schools and schools will find this an invaluable yet extremely fun approach to teaching young children about their feelings and their relationships.
Jenny Mosley is the founder of the Whole School Quality Circle Time model and Jenny Mosley Consultancies. Her unique approach has featured on BBC Television Teaching Today, Channel 4 and Open University Programmes, in addition to the national press and numerous education journals.^{Англоязычное методическое пособие для учителей-дошкольников и учителей начальных классов. Circle Time- это простые, но очень эффективные стратегии, позволяющие организовать позитивную, доброжелательную и уважительную атмосферу в коллективе дошкольников и младших школьников. Книга содержит хорошо структурированные планы занятий с детальным описанием: размеры группы, используемые ресурсы, процесс подготовки, цели, пошаговые инструкции.}