Discuss your ideas about the role and purpose of the early years specialist.

Being an Early year's teacher is not only a career, but a vocation. For many teachers it is their life, they do not just appear in the classroom at nine each morning and finish at three in the afternoon. Hours of planning and preparation have been completed before teachers can even competently deliver the curriculum to their class. Marking, assessing and planning are only a few the tasks that need to be fulfilled by the …

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