Books and resources for NVQ Level 4

Hi everyone I'm new here but would love to hear what books/resources you use for the NVQ Level 4. I work for a publisher and we are interested in what candidates would find useful to support them through level 4. Any thoughts/ideas?

Many thanks - feel free to give me a long wish list!

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi and a very warm welcome to Silkysteps .

That's valuable information being sought. Are there plans for a new NVQ4 guide or promotional ideas for combining a L4 list of titles ?

Theorists & developmental stages are areas I would suggest.

Enjoy the site and hopefully members can help out ..

[Lucy]

Ok, here goes :reading:

Advanced Early Years Care and Education - Iain MacLeod-Brudenell
Early Years Management in Practice - Daly, Byers and Taylor
Child Care & Education - Tina Bruce and Carolyn Meggitt
Understanding Child Development - Jennie Lindon
How Children Learn - Linda Pound
Early Childhood Education - Tina Bruce
An Introduction to Child Development - G C Davenport
Supporting Every Child's Learning - Vicky Hutchin
Key Persons in the Nursery - Elfer, Goldschied, Selleck
How to Observe Children - Sheila Riddall-Leech
Child Development, an illustarted guide - Carlyn Meggitt

There are more, but above are the main ones that i always refer to before answering any of the questions

And obviously this forum is fantastic too

Thanks for the welcome! And for the long list of books you already use, Lucy. What would be your view on a completely new Handbook or Guide covering all the mandatory units and a selection of the most popular optional ones? (similar to the Handbooks that exist for Levels 2 and 3) - do you think this would be helpful? Would you buy it?

i think that would be very useful
i would deffo buy it and sure many others would too

[donzo]

Hi

I would buy anything that helped, i just find the books expensive and then you only find a few things in it useful so i think your idea is great, put me down for one!!!

[sparky]

Thats a really good idea - I think most candidates would find it a good starting point

[Lucy]

DEFINATELY

A support book is exactly what is needed

It appears that this qualification is not that popular at present, but i think it will pick up during the coming year, so if there is anything you can get together within the next year it will be supported by all the training companies.

Sometimes the questions make no sense and it would be very useful to have a resourse which supported this

Thanks for the enthusiastic response. It's early days in our planning, but feedback like yours all helps. As well as covering the individual units and elements of the standards, are there any specific features you think a text book should include (e.g. case studies, definitions of key terms, ... )?

And as for numbers of candidates - do you think there will continue to be funding available for people to take up this qualification?

Thanks for all your help, guys!

[brown owl]

hi

I think that having a book which goes through each individual unit is a brilliant idea. When I did my L3 I had the candidates handbook that went alongside it, this had a chapter for each unit and explained what everything meant, in english!! I certainly would buy one to help me plod through the L4. I have some of the books that Lucy mentions - but anything that makes this qualification easier to understand gets my vote!

brown owl