What practices were seen to occur in effective centres of early years education?
The EPPE project found that high quality pre-school education can help to alleviate the effects of social disadvantage and provide children with a better start to school. The schools from EPPE were investigated further (in REPEY) in order to identify a number of strategies that showed benefits for providing effective pre-school education. The strategies that were identified were: • providing and achieving a balance between the opportunities for group work and freely chosen activities, allowing children to take the initiative to learn • providing differentiated activities and challenge in areas just beyond what the child could learn on their own but where they can succeed with adult help; • engaging in ‘responsive teaching’ by considering the background and social perspective of the learner so that you can ‘build bridges’ between what the child knows and what they are capable of knowing; • using open ended questions that provoke speculation and stimulate the imagination; • responding to
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