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Learning & Development: Under-threes - Shared experience

New materials offer guidance for those working with diverse and disadvantaged toddlers. Helen Sutherland and Jan Styman explain.

A raft of teaching materials and resources promoting effective practice in working with diverse and disadvantaged toddlers and their families has been developed by early years specialists across eight European countries and is now available online.

The materials, which aim to promote reflective practice, have been developed as part of the TODDLER Project. TODDLER stands for 'Towards Opportunities for Disadvantaged and Diverse Learners on the Early Childhood Road' and the initiative was set up in response to the 2009 Eurydice Report, which highlighted the continuing inequity in education for children from diverse and disadvantaged backgrounds.

Now available at www.toddlerineurope.eu, the resources include a section on Toddlers in a European Context and materials on four aspects of provision identified as essential in meeting the needs of disadvantaged toddlers and giving them a fair chance of lifelong learning. They are:

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