Ninety seven per cent of people who took part in the first stages of the Education Development Trust’s Building on Success programme for early years practitioners reported that it was either ‘effective’ or ‘very effective’ in improving their day-to-day practice.
That sounds remarkable, even unbelievable.
But having done the course myself I can vouch for it.
It’s hard work, but then so is being an early years educator. I’ve worked in the sector for 23 years, so I know how challenging it can be. But, like working in early years, the programme is rewarding too.
The programme has been adapted and revised in light of all the disruption the sector has faced in recent months and years. Some of the changes in behaviour due to Covid are only becoming clear now. For example, we find the children in our setting seem much keener to be outside, and maybe that’s related to the lockdown restrictions some of them have known all their lives.
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