Improving early education through high-quality interactions
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High-quality interactions are a guiding principle
High-quality interactions are a guiding principle for work in the early years. These interactions are essential in:
- Encouraging children to take part in back-and-forth conversations (ShREC)
- Teaching children new vocabulary and using language that isn’t everyday talk, but goes ‘beyond the here and now’
- Extending children’s thinking (SST)
- Scaffolding children’s thinking and developing their independent learning (STAIRS)
It doesn’t matter which area of practice is the focus. Effective professional development for educators in the early years will always have quality interactions at its core.