Interacting or Interfering? Improving interactions in the early years

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It exemplifies how interactions are most effectively sustained and how developing high quality interactions can better scaffold and support children's learning and development. Through the use of video footage, delegates will have a number of opportunities to observe other practitioners engaged in interactions, both indoors and outdoors, and in both adult-led and child-led situations. This book challenges the reader to consider different ways of thinking about the role of educator and offers support and inspiration to the converted who feel isolated in the system.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I've never come across any training for this, so this book is absolutely what I need and I can share insights with my team too. Without these gadgets, we become more able to identify with the child and get closer to the child, to become attuned. She was a lecturer in early childhood education at the University of Reading and was then an Early Years Adviser in Oxfordshire for 11 years.High quality interactions are recognised as fundamental to the achievement of outstanding teaching and learning in the early years. Julie is author of a number of articles on early childhood education as well as her books Starting from the Child and The Foundations of Learning (Open University Press). It exemplifies how interactions are most effectively sustained and how developing high quality interactions can better scaffold and support children’s learning and development.

There will be ample time for discussion and reflection on what has been seen, ultimately coming to personal decisions about how best to tune in to children’s current thinking and respond in ways that are of benefit to their learning and development. Identifies the key components of effective interactions and how implementing these can improve the quality of children’s learning • Contains transcripts of interactions from baby rooms through to Year 2 classes which exemplify key messages• Provides prompts you can use to analyse and improve your own practiceWritten in the author’s exceptionally clear and accessible style, this book is indispensable reading for all students and practitioners working and studying in the early years. An essential professional child studies book that identifies the key components of effective interactions and how implementing these can improve the quality of children’s learning. Written in the author’s exceptionally clear and accessible style, this book is indispensable reading for all students and practitioners working and studying in the early years. Julie Fisher is an independent Early Years Adviser and Visiting Professor of Early Childhood Education at Oxford Brookes University.There is a tendency for adult talk to dominate nurseries and schools in an attempt to manage, organise and interrogate children's learning; this closes down children's own investigation and capacity for thought. Neuware - High quality interactions are recognised as fundamental to the achievement of outstanding teaching and learning in the early years.