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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