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amina 05-13-2011 09:18 PM

explain sustained shared thinking?
 
What is sustained shared thinking?

is it ok? Explain the importance of engaging with a child to support sustained shared thinking?

Quote Page 146 - 148 Understanding child development 2nd edition Jennie Lindon 2010

The Effective Provision of Pre-school Education (EPPE) research project identified that effective early years settings had practitioners who used ther attention and communication skills to promote, what the team called 'sustained shared thinking' with young children.
This concept has much in common with the passage of intellectual sarch (page 145), not least that helpful adults need to listen and be careful about over-use of questions.

Opportunities for sustained shared thinking were unlikely to happen unless children were able to interact on a one-to-one basis with an adult, or with a few of their peers in a very small group. Such a process was simply not possible in an adult-led, larger group time.

What does it mean

Sustained shared thinking: communicative interaction between adults and individual children that supports them to explore, understand and extend their knowledge about experiences and ideas.

Child initiated experiences:
events and activities that are freely choosen by children from their learning nvironment, directly requested of adults, or explorations started by a child's remark, shared family experience, and so on.


Adult initiated experiences
: events and activities that are started by adults, possibly nbit not always, planned in advance, and may be led or guided, if childreen need tips on technique.



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2012 3rd edition Understanding child development linking theory to practice on amazon

Explanation of sustained shared thinking page 10 on of this ATL booklet - Play to learn by Di Chilvers

Level 3 CYPW learner's handbook search Amazon.co.uk

Heidi 05-14-2011 03:00 PM

Sustained (strengthen/support) shared thinking where two or more individuals work together intellectully/thinking how to do something, explain something, talk about something they are/or going to do, solving problems or foreseeing problems.

Working/discussing in a team (whether two or more) is always going to bring differing views/opinions/answers/solutions etc.

So why do you think it is important to support children in sustained thinking?

If you said at circle time.

Today we are going to look at a sunflower - here is the seed, it needs soil, water and warmth to grow.
You have imparted the knowledge to the children - but what else? what about them using their brain and thinking for themselves?

You could say i.e.
we will water our sunflower seeds in pot of soil and keep in on the windowsill for light and to keep it warm but then asking...

If we plant the seed outside - what will the seed need to grow?

hopefully you have given them the knowledge and they (especially older or more able children) will know they still need soil, water and warmth., but you ask how is the sunflower going to get their water? what will happen to the plant if the weather is cold?

A child may reply '...rain..' or another may say with a 'watering can...' - whatever the answer they are thinking and putting their thoughts into practice and the topic/subject may go in another direction, but they are still thinking..with the support of a practitioner (or other children) who is chipping in and enriching their experience.

This is just a generalisation, but I'm trying to show you knowledge is not enough, but helping children improve their thinking skills by thinking further, to extend thinking is necessary to continued learning.

Supporting and encouraging children to think will help their thinking skills so when they are say playing and constructing a tower, they can then use these skills with another child or more and they can work together thinking how can we build this? shall we build a tall one? or a very wide one? and hopefully the children will think and chip in with their thoughts. They need help/support and encouragement to feel confident in thinking and putting their thoughts across. It's like anything else, we need to learn and put it into practice to get better.

We don't want children who cannot think for themselves. If you are interested have a look at the Effective Provision of Pre-school (EPPE) research where their analysed sustained shared thinking. In this report 'sustained shared thinking' was identified as one of the key features of high quality provision. The link to the site is:


http://nationalstrategies.standards....63?uc=force_uj

ola123 05-31-2017 03:22 PM

So stuck on this one help!

Ruthierhyme 05-31-2017 06:12 PM

Hi, welcome to the site. Have you checked with your tutor if they have any materials for you to research this?


Sustained shared thinking is a concept where it's been observed children who share their ideas and views in pairs or groups have a greater/sustained interest in what they're doing and so learning about.


To find out more the EPPE study explains sustained shared thinking on page of this brief: http://eppe.ioe.ac.uk/eppe/eppepdfs/eppe_brief2503.pdf


Quote: The quality of adult-child verbal interactions

‘Sustained shared thinking’ is where two or more individuals 'work together’ in an intellectual way to solve a problem, clarify a concept, evaluate an activity, extend a narrative etc. Both parties must contribute to the thinking and it must develop and extend the understanding. It was found that the most effective settings encourage ‘sustained shared thinking’ which was most likely to occur when children were interacting 1:1 with an adult or with a single peer partner. It would appear that periods of ‘sustained shared thinking’ are a necessary pre-requisite for the most effective early years practice
.

You'll also find information about this in the publication by DI Chilvers: Playing to learn (click the download button)


Page 231/246/287 of this EYE level 3 handbook on amazon (if that's the course you're doing?)


The Project Approach is one way that sustained shared thinking is being used to support children - free sample pages from The Project Approach by Marianne Sargent and purchase the book on amazon.co.uk

and these threads:

https://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?p=62672

http://www.silkysteps.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17013


Hope this helps xx


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