Early Education
The GM Programme includes a strategic priority focus on increasing access to high quality early education. This work is led by the GM Ealry Education leads group, who work collaboratively across a range of initiatives and with wider partners including early education and childcare providers.
Teaching is a broad term that covers the many different ways in which adults help young children learn. It includes their interactions with children during planned and child-initiated play and activities, communicating and modelling language, showing, explaining, demonstrating, exploring ideas, encouraging, questioning, recalling, providing a narrative for what they are doing, facilitating and setting challenges. It takes account of the equipment that adults provide and the attention given to the physical environment, as well as the structure and routines of the day that establish expectations. Integral to teaching is how practitioners assess what children know, understand and can do, as well as taking account of their interests and dispositions to learn (characteristics of effective learning), and how practitioners use this information to plan children’s next steps in learning and to monitor their progress.
The latest Ofsted Early Years Inspection Handbook was published on the 9th September 2024 and can viewed via the Early years inspection handbook (External Website).
