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After going on a quality teaching course, Hannah Richardson now waits ten seconds after asking a question of a child

Ofsted expects nursery practitioners to teach. But this is a broad expectation. Archfield House Nursery practitioner Hannah Richardson decided to expand her teaching knowledge by attending a one-day NDNA course on Quality Teaching in the Early Years.

As an unqualified practitioner who hopes to begin an Early Years Teaching course in September, Ms Richardson says the course thoroughly changed her daily practice. Through presentations, group discussions and role-play exercises, she learnt the importance of play within learning and how to balance adult- and child-led activities. ‘The main thing was looking at our setting, thinking about our different resources and what the children are actually learning from them,’ she says.

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