FingerTips TALKING TOGETHER
The language of learning... for life
FingerTips is a flexible and unforgettable reflective learner’s talking tool. The tools to talk about learning, The tools to learn through talking- based on the five fingers of your hand
Finding the right words is not easy, at any age. If we are in a new situation, a difficult situation or we need more time.. As adults, we expect children to be able to tell us what they have done, what they have learned, but do we empower them with the tools to use and the words that work and ways to start simply, start today then ‘embed it into their everyday’?
As the adults around them, are we confident in our own learning conversations? Are we confident with sharing these strategies with parents and professionals, carers and colleagues? These conversations help our children to speak out and shine, they promote oracy and agency, they are simply based around the five fingers of your hand This book is written about a child and about us, the adults around them, but we all are children at heart. Whatever age you are, whatever the age of the person you are nurturing or teaching, coaching or managing…
FingerTips empowers everyone to start simply –
and that’s just what you can do today.
Children, the way they learn and why they behave as they do are Ali McClure's life's work and passion. Finalist for Nursery World Trainer of the Year, Ali has been writing, teaching and speaking for more than two decades to countless educators and families in the UK and across the globe. Her lively delivery and unique work on Supporting Self-Regulation and SEND, Learning through Play, Bringing Play to their Learning and Building Brilliant Behaviours are highly acclaimed, with the FingerTlps approach recently recognised by the Centre for International Research at Eton College England and the World Forum Child Impact Initiative.
Previously known for her timeless book 'Making it Better for Boys', Ali is an award-winning consultant, creator and changemaker. Being a SENCo and teaching and tutoring young children, helping them and the adults around them find supportive, sustainable solutions is important to her, and keeps her practice current. Ali specialises in helping every child and the adults around them to believe in themselves and to achieve… whatever their challenges may be. Her strategies grow with the child, working for learners of all ages.
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