61 Effective Interactions (Adult-Child, Child-Adult, Child-Child) 2. Interactions for Learning (continued) 2. Quality of Feedback Level 1 Recognize the importance of adult interactions with children that promote learning and development. EI 2.2.1 Level 2 Provide responses to children’s ideas, comments, and work that extend children’s learning and development EI 2.2.2 Level 3 Develop, plan, and implement program-wide strategies for promoting interactions that extend children’s learning and development. Plan and guide interactive experiences that extend children’s learning and includes: o Open ended questions o Prompting of thought processes o Expansion and elaboration o Rich or descriptive vocabulary o Real-world applications o Connections to children’s lives and experiences o Integration of concepts across academic concepts EI 2.2.3 Level 4 Analyze, evaluate, and modify program-wide learning strategies that promote adult to child, child to adult, and child to child interactions to support children’s development of analysis and reasoning skills. Demonstrate best practices for interacting with children in ways to facilitate analysis and reasoning skills. Provide professional development opportunities to teachers, caregivers, and staff to develop and improve instructional interaction skills that extend children’s learning. EI 2.2.4 Level 5 Analyze, evaluate, articulate, and apply current knowledge, theories, research, and best practices that inform understanding of instructional interaction skills to promote students higher-order thinking skills. EI 2.2.5