Table of Contents

1: Setting the scene 2: The very beginning of learning 3: Observation, assessment, planning intervention and evaluation. The OAPIE cycle 4:Play – A child’s life 5: Understanding Motor Development 6:Understanding social development 7: Understanding emotional development 8: Understanding moral development 9: Understanding intellectual development.

About the Author

Christine Macintyre, formerly a teacher and lecturer at Moray House, Edinburgh University, now works as an early years consultant specialising in the field of movement development. She is currently working with staff who teach children with profound and complex needs and has written many books based on researching developmental issues.