ELIZABETH JARMAN

CREATING OPTIMUM CONDITIONS FOR LEARNING

Publications

Explore CFS™ solutions that practitioners and settings have put into action. Lots of visual images to show you how children’s preferences were accommodated.

The books in the Place to Talk series are bursting with ideas about creating spaces to encourage talk. They reflect Elizabeth Jarman’s research on the role of the environment in supporting children’s engagement.

Full of photos and observations of children interacting with the spaces created, the books include key prompts to help you to audit your environment and inform change. The series features 96 examples of different Places to Talk.

CFS™ Toolkit

Much awaited updated version of this significant publication:
Communication Friendly Spaces™

Improving speaking and listening, emotional well-being and general engagement.
Elizabeth Jarman

Re-designed and updated, this publication aims to help those working with children and young people to re-consider the role of the learning environment in terms of improving speaking and listening skills, emotional well-being and general engagement. It blends research and practical ideas to help readers to audit and improve the environment they offer.

The toolkit contains 20 new case studies from a range of contexts. Also featured in the toolkit are find out more tabs and spaces to record your thoughts and ideas. To see sample pages from the Communication Friendly Spaces™ Toolkit, please click the magnifying glass under the product image to the right.

For further information on the CFS™ Toolkit please click here

£25.00 + £3.50 postage and packaging.

A Place to Talk - In Children's Centres

Creating places to talk which appeal to the whole family and are flexible to suit any session are featured in this book which shows how children’s centres can offer permanent and temporary environments which trigger speaking and listening.

A Place to Talk - In Extended Schools

This book features spaces which have been created in Extended Schools offering children places to talk which connect with their current interests and the types of activities that they might be involved in.

A Place to Talk - In Pack Away Settings

Acknowledging the specific challenges of preparing a pack away setting daily, this book shares a wealth of ideas and suggestions for creating spaces which work with the space, resources and time you have available, linked to the children’s interests.

A Place to Talk - In Pre-Schools

Creating an environment that enables and encourages speaking and listening can be simple, straight forward and doesn’t need any new equipment or resources as the stories and images in this book demonstrate.

A Place to Talk - Outside

Outside is such a preferred context for so many children and needs to be maximised! The ideas in this book will inspire you to review your outside spaces, informing immediate and longer term change.

A Place to Talk - In KS1

This book is full of practical ideas that can make a positive difference to the child's experience in a KS1 classroom. The book also includes several examples of transitional spaces.

A Place to Talk - Childminders

Flexible spaces that are easily set up and then stored away feature in this book. Lots of ideas for babies through to teenagers are included, which recognise the needs of children at different times of the day.

A Place to Talk - At Home

This book includes many special spaces created to reflect and extend children’s particular interests and needs. Some of the spaces have been developed by the children, giving them 'ownership' of the space.