High quality interactions are recognised as fundamental to the achievement of outstanding teaching and learning in the early years.a If you are working with children from six months to six 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 childrenOs conversations.a It exemplifies how interactions are most effectively sustained and how developing high quality interactions can better scaffold and support childrenOs learning and development.'Interacting or Interfering?'OaIdentifies the key components of effective interactions and how implementing these can improve the quality of childrenOs learning OaContains transcripts of interactions from baby rooms through to Year 2 classes which exemplify key messagesOaProvides prompts you can use to analyse and improve your own practiceWritten in the authorOs exceptionally clear and accessible style, this book is indispensable reading for all students and practitioners working and studying in the early years.
1 The importance of interactions for young children's learning Introduction Different definitions of 'effectiveness' Interactions in the home Why interaction matters Why interactions matter to children entering school Why interactions matter to practitioners Summary 2 Interacting with babies and toddlers Introduction The foundations of interaction The development of interactions Summary 3 Knowing the child well Introduction Focus on babies and toddlers What practitioners need to learn about children The importance of the Key Persons Approach The impact of knowing children well Talking to someone and not everyone Analysing your own practice Transcripts: knowing the child well Transcripts 3:1; 3:2 Summary 4 Environments conducive to conversation Introduction Focus on babies and toddlers Emotional space Physical space Analysing your own practice Transcripts 4:1; 4:2 Summary 5 Tuning in to the child Introduction Focus on babies and toddlers The child as a learner Strategies for tuning in to children Working out what a child is thinking is more valuable than looking at what they are doing Deciding when and whether to interact can be the difference between interacting and interfering Analysing your own practice Transcripts 5:1; 5:2 Summary 6 Who leads the learning? Introduction Focus on babies and toddlers The benefits of learning alongside an adult and learning independently Independent learning is not abandoned learning Interactions in adult-led, adult-initiated and child-led contexts The purpose of an interaction The balance between adult-led and child-led learning Who leads the learning? Analysing your own practice Transcripts 6:1 to 6:4 Summary 7 Sustaining effective interactions Introduction Focus on babies and toddlers Initiating conversations Sustaining interactions Consolidating, extending and provoking thinking Analysing your own practice Body language Analysing your own practice Tone of voice Transcripts 7:1 to 7:7 Analysing your own practice Summary 8 Interacting with children who might not want to interact Introduction Focus on babies and toddlers Reluctant talkers Children with autism Children with English as an additional language (Eal) Signing as a form of communication Analysing your own practice Transcripts 8:1; 8:2 Summary 9 Questions that work and questions that don't Introduction Focus on babies and toddlers Why do we ask questions? Who asks the questions? Transcripts 9:1 to 9:6 Different types of questions Using questioning as control Children's answers Questions that work and questions that don't Alternatives to questioning Analysing my own practice Transcripts 9:5 to 9:6 Summary 10 The attributes of effective practitioners Introduction Focus on babies and toddlers The attributes of effectiveness The importance of reciprocity Interacting not interfering Analysing your own practice Transcript 10:1 Summary
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