Interacting or Interfering? A Seminar with Julie Fisher

Enhancing Young Children’s Language, Communication and Learning

Description

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

Throughout the day Julie’s own research will be woven with expectations from the EYFS programmes of study for Communication and Language and the recent ‘Best Start in Life’ documents from Ofsted, in order for delegates to reflect on different ways they might extend and enhance children’s language and communication through natural, genuine, everyday conversations.

 Through the use of film footage, delegates will have a number of opportunities to observe other practitioners engaged in interactions both indoors and outdoors and in both adult-led and child-led situations. There will then be ample time for discussion and reflection on what has been seen, and to come 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.

 

Issues addressed:

  • What makes an interaction ‘effective’?

  • Why talking to – and listening to - children matters so much

  • How to best achieve ‘back and forth’ interactions

  • Who ‘leads the learning?’ and how this alters the role of the educator

  • How and why interactions outdoors differ  from those indoors

  • The importance of timing in achieving effective interactions

  • How to extend, enhance and enrich children’s language

  • How questioning can inhibit thinking – and what to do instead

  • When, whether and why an interaction becomes interference

Audience

EYFS leaders and teachers

Prices

Live Webinar - £150 per person excl. VAT

Please note that our online training courses are priced per person and multiple viewings of a course will be charged.

Dates and Times

Spring 2025

Live Webinar

Thursday 3rd April
9:30am - 3:30pm

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