Julie Fisher – Interacting or Interfering? Improving interactions in the early years

Every day, early years practitioners engage in interactions with young children that have the potential to enhance their learning. 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.

Julie’s webinar will consider the sensitivity and strategies needed to effectively enhance children’s wellbeing, their language development and their learning. You will learn:

– To consider why listening is as important for practitioners as talking
– To explore different strategies that extend and enhance children’s language
– To be clear about the change in the role of the practitioner as they move from adult-led learning to child-led learning
– To examine the importance of place and timing so that interactions do not interfere with children’s thinking and learning

About the speaker

Julie Fisher is an independent Early Years Adviser and visiting Professor of Early Childhood Education at Oxford Brookes University. She held the post of Early Years Adviser in Oxfordshire for 11 years, before which she was lecturer in early childhood education at the University of Reading. She has taught children from 3 to 12 years of age and has been headteacher of two urban, multi-cultural schools. Julie has been the national Chair of a number of early years organisations including the National Association of Early Years Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants and the national Early Childhood Forum. In her work, she draws on her own research projects which engage her in constant contact with practitioners and children in both schools and settings. She is a well-known and respected author whose books include ‘Starting from the Child’ (5th edn in print); ‘The Foundations of Learning’ (2002); ‘Interacting or Interfering?’ (2016) and ‘Moving On to Key Stage One’ (2nd edn 2020). Julie received a doctorate for her research into the changing role of early childhood educators. She is also a proud recipient of the Nursery World Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to early childhood education.

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