TEACHING IN THE EARLY YEARS: OFSTED’S DEFINITION
“Teaching in the early years should not be taken to imply a ‘top down’ or formal way of working. It 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.”
Ofsted Early Years Inspection Handbook, August 2015, page 35, footnote 14
