Politicians should read this book but then they already know how to educate our children don't they. 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. She has linked (through excellent first hand examples) how adults need to interact rather than to interfere in the encouragement of spoken language needed for deep thought. 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.

EYTV Premium gives you instant access to all 250+ of our amazing videos with a free Professional Development Certificate for every interview you watch. Her advice to wait, watch and wonder provides a wise guide to our daily work with children, and an opportunity to more effective team work, particularly when mentoring colleagues and sharing our learnings about children from our observations. Written in the author’s exceptionally clear and accessible style, this book identifies the key components of effective interactions and how implementing these can improve the quality of children’s learning.Includes first hand examples of transcripts and interactions of conversations between carers and children, from the baby room through to the year 2 classroom. 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.

In this week’s Conversation with Antonella Cirillo, which we will share at our webinar on Tuesday 9 November at 19. 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. This latest book by Julie Fisher is an ABSOLUTE MUST for everybody who is interested in child development from babyhood onwards!Do join us on Tuesday when we share the full conversation with you, after which we will break into smaller groups to explore this challenge to our practice. Julie Fisher is an independent Early Years Adviser and visiting Professor of early childhood education at Oxford Brookes University. The conversation gave us an opportunity to consider the importance of the early interaction particularly in the first and second years of life when the child’s sensitive period for language is unfolding, attachment patterns are developing and need for social connections emerges. However, such is the temptation to squeeze every teaching moment out of each interaction that practitioners often interrupt children’s thinking and consequently interfere with their learning. Uumlber den AutorrnrnnJulie Fisher is an independent Early Years Adviser and visiting Professor of Ea.

Offers practical guidance on developing high quality interactions to better scaffold children s learning and development. 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. Without these gadgets, we become more able to identify with the child and get closer to the child, to become attuned.

I'm in my third year, and have noticed that both me and my team struggle to know when and how to interact with the children at times. 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. This course, led by Early Years Advisor Julie Fisher, will examine the knowledge, timing and sensitivity necessary to interact effectively and, as a consequence, build important relationships and enhance children’s well-being and motivation to communicate.

To offer delegates a range of strategies for building warm, trusting relationships and enhancing language and skills of communication. Neuware - High quality interactions are recognised as fundamental to the achievement of outstanding teaching and learning in the early years.

In this timely, thought-provoking and very readable book she prompts us to think more deeply about interactions and adapt new strategies to encourage all young children to engage in meaningful and enriching talk.