Quality Interaction (One Day 8.5.25)

Quality Interactions: The role of the adult, including Sustained Shared Thinking strategies

Course Description:

Based on the work of Marion Dowling’s/The EPPE Project’s, ‘Sustained Shared Thinking’, this training course by Leading Children will focus on the adult role, including the use of irresistible and provoking activities for generating talk.

High quality interactions are central to effective early years practice, ensuring all children make progress, and in order for interactions to be successful, we need skilled adults. We will endeavour to demonstrate how engaging in effective conversations during child-initiated activities helps children absorb new vocabulary, expand their knowledge as well as extend their thinking. 

Developing children’s thinking, reasoning, information processing, evaluative and imaginative thinking skills is largely reliant on the quality of deliberate questioning and strategising, as adults converse with them.

Please note: Refreshments are always provided, but delegates need to bring their own lunch.

Venue:
Training base: Leading Children Ltd, Farnham Rd, Bradford, West Yorkshire,  BD7 3JE

Date(s) & Duration:
Thursday 8th May 2025, 9.30am – 3.30pm

Audience:
EY and KS1 leaders, teachers & support staff.

Fee:
£125.00 per person + VAT (Please contact us if you would like to pre-order lunch).