xviii, 208 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Contents
1. The importance of interactions for young children's learning -- 2. Interacting with babies and toddlers -- 3. Knowing the child well -- 4. Environments conducive to conversation -- 5. Tuning in to the child -- 6. Who leads the learning? -- 7. Sustaining effective interactions -- 8. Interacting with children who might not want to interact -- 9. Questions that work and questions that don't -- 10. The attributes of effective practitioners
Summary
High quality interactions are recognised as fundamental to the achievement of outstanding teaching and learning in the early years. This authoritative new book from leading author Julie Fisher encourages you to reflect deeply on the quality and impact of interactions in your setting. Drawing on research undertaken in baby rooms, nurseries and classrooms over four years the book challenges prevailing orthodoxies and offers specific practical guidance on how to improve the quality of interactions on a day-to-day basis. With its illuminating examples, the book shows how you can best tune into and respond effectively to young children's conversations. It exemplifies how interactions are most effectively sustained and how developing high quality interactions can better scaffold and support children's learning and development. Interacting or Interfering? Identifies the key components of effective interactions and how implementing these can improve the quality of children's learning
