Nursery World - Early Years Teacher: Standard 8 - Time to use your breadth of skills

Standard 8 pulls together everything that has been explored as part
of the EYTS programme, as Karen Hart explains in the concluding part of
this series.

STANDARD 8

8. Fulfil wider professional responsibilities

Standard 8 asks students to consider and demonstrate ways in which their knowledge and experience can help create an early years environment incorporating all the standards to enrich and stimulate a child's development.

Denise Reardon, programme director of Early Years Teacher Status at Canterbury Christ Church University, provides her input across this feature.

SUPPORTING STATEMENTS

8.1 Promote equality of opportunity and anti-discriminatory practice

When looking at this area, remember the importance of the practitioner as a model for behaviour. Children take behavioural cues from the adults they interact with; their aspirations growing in proportion to their sense of self-worth and perceivable achievements.

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