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Publications and Conference Presentations

EYE Early Years Educator Volume 9 No 5 September 2007: Building Professional Working Relationships. Inter-professional working relationships are formed between people serious about working with colleagues in other professions – more serious than just keeping up appearances:
http://www.earlyyearseducator.co.uk/public/Eye%20Sept%20contents2.pdf

ESCalate Social Justice in Workspaces Issue 7 Spring 2007: Strengthening links within & outside the Education Community:
http://escalate.ac.uk/3344

Training, Advancement and Co-operation in Teaching Young Children (TACTYC) Recruitment and Retention of Early Years and Childcare Practitioners in Private Day Nurseries (Conclusions drawn from findings of fieldwork carried out as part of a Ph.D. research): http://www.tactyc.org.uk/pdfs/Reflection_simms.pdf

Training, Advancement and Co-operation in Teaching Young Children (TACTYC) Response to Dr. Jillian Rodd’s Discussion Paper – Leadership: an essential ingredient or an optional extra? http://www.tactyc.org.uk/pdfs/response_Payler.pdf

British Education Research Student Conference, September 2006. Presentation and publication “Retention of Early Years & Childcare Practitioners in Private Day Nurseries: Is Love enough?” http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/157460.htm

6th International S-Step Conference, Hersmonceaux, July/August 2006. Special Visual presentation of “Defining workspaces, defining ourselves” a piece of collaborative research carried out with Professor M. Griffiths, Dr. K. Poursanidou and Joseph Windle that stimulated discussion amongst international teacher educators: http://books.google.co.uk/books?

Learning from Sure Start: National Conference on Local Evaluations 2006, Nottingham “The Longer Term Impact on Families of Involvement with Sure Start: Unexpected outcomes”. Included a strategy for relationship building through the amalgamation of a multiplicity of inter-professional knowledge, experience and skills: http://www.proceedc.com/main/page_articles_childcare_books.html

5th International S-Step Conference, Herstmonceux Castle 2004 “Academic and support staff: Images of three working lives in teacher education. ‘That’s what I am here for’ innovative and interactive visual presentation of a collaborative piece of research carried out with Professor Morwenna Griffiths and Joseph Windle at Nottingham Trent University: http://www.proceedc.com/main/page_articles_childcare_books.html

Scottish Educational Research Association Conference, 2004: "From Dizzy heights to Dozy Lows: An appreciation of the Challenges Overcome by Women Researchers in Mid life." A study of teachers and PhD. students from China, Botswana, Malawi, America and England being and becoming researchers. Accolade: “An entertaining and sensible presentation...that rang some bells.” Referenced@ http://edisdat.ied.edu.hk/pubarch/b15907314/full_paper/1168229949.pdf

Book Chapter

“Academic and support staff: Images of three working lives in teacher education. ‘That’s what I am here for’ in Self-study & Diversity (2006) Tidwell, D. & Fitzgerald, L. (Eds.) Rotterdam: Sense Publishers Ltd. http://www.sensepublishers.com/catalog/files/90-77874-34-8.pdf

Book Review Examples

Child Sexual Abuse: Disclosure, Delay, and Denial http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

Successful Teaching Placement: Primary and Early Years (Achieving QTS Practical Handbooks) http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

Rethinking Schooling (Education Heritage) http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

Early Years Stories for the Foundation Stage http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

The Basics of Essay Writing http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

Achieving your Doctorate in Education http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

Understanding Early Years Policy http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

Early Childhood Education – Good Practice in Achieving Universal Primary Education: A Handbook for Education Policy Makers and Practitioner in Commonwealth Countries http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

The Essentials of School Leadership http://escalate.ac.uk/1616

Working with Abused Children: From Theory to Practice http://escalate.ac.uk/index.cfm?action=main.search&start=11&q=margaret%20simms

Self-employed Early Years Consultant since 2005

Experience underpinning Early Years consultancy (examples)

10 years designing and delivering and moderating accredited Childcare and Parenting programmes for students in Further and Community Education.
Two and a half years running a high profile recruitment campaign is Nottingham City during the National Childcare Recruitment Campaign. Organised high profile recruitment events, responsible for the innovative childcare recruitment website www.workwithchildren.org.uk.

Qualification and training examples

Ph. D. Retention of Early Years and Childcare Practitioners in Day Nurseries.
Masters Degree in Education - Human Relations
Certificate in Education
Certificate in Continuing Professional Development (Special Needs)
Further & Adult Education Teaching Certificate
ILM Introduction to Line Management
Advanced Training for Trainers
Recruitment on Merit Recruitment & Selection; IQPC - Equality & Diversity
Training; Women into Management training
NVQ 3 Early Years & Childcare

The Early Years Consultant with the Freshional Approach.
By nature an encourager and an enabler.
I love to see people succeed, especially when they are working to give children and families a good start.