With changes to training and qualifications, proposals for longer school days, and the hectic nature of working in educational settings, could we be forgetting the importance of those who work with young children thinking deeply about what they do?
To help children develop into thinking people, we need thinking teachers and practitioners - and this is no less the case in the complex and nuanced world of the early years setting. I can think of few intellectual challenges greater than figuring out how a young child is thinking and how this thinking can be supported and taken to the next level. Meeting this challenge takes experience and it takes empathy, but it also takes an understanding of theories of how children learn.
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