Interacting or Interfering? Improving interactions in the early years

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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. 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. Interestingly Julie Fisher reflects on the need for active observation – by which we understand that the adult is fully engaged and present in the moment whilst appearing to be very still. This professional, human connection opens windows to emotions the child feels and dispositions the child activates. 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 practice 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.

Co-construction of learning is another useful lens through which to reflect on this topic – referring to sustained interactions and experiences with all children in secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships, whilst the dialogical approach enables consideration of a complexity of the conditions that shape our understanding of dialogue in context. 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. Professor Julie Fisher explains the – often subtle – differences between interacting and interfering when communicating with young children.In particular Julie has made watching and listening to young children totally understandable and meaningful. It exemplifies how interactions are most effectively sustained and how developing high quality interactions can better scaffold and support childrens 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. 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. This book is both relevant, though provoking and extremely useful for all involved in early childhood - an excellent tool for professional development.

I found this book extremely interesting and really valuable for reflecting on my work as a reception teacher.Julie Fisher is an independent Early Years Adviser and Visiting Professor of Early Childhood Education at Oxford Brookes University. Includes first hand examples of transcripts and interactions of conversations between carers and children, from the baby room through to the year 2 classroom. Professor Julie Fisher is an independent Early Years Adviser and visiting Professor of Early Childhood Education at Oxford Brookes University. In 24/25 join the Norfolk WalkThrus cohort to provide a network to integrate this pedagogical approach to improving teaching and learning across our schools.

Every day, early years practitioners engage in interactions with young children that have the potential to enhance their learning. This latest book by Julie Fisher is an ABSOLUTE MUST for everybody who is interested in child development from babyhood onwards! 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. Without these gadgets, we become more able to identify with the child and get closer to the child, to become attuned.Neuware - High quality interactions are recognised as fundamental to the achievement of outstanding teaching and learning in the early years. With its illuminating examples, the book shows how you can best tune into and respond effectively to young children’s conversations.