Communication & Language

Audience

Family-facing early years practitioners, including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, setting practitioners, teachers and teaching assistants.

Aims

Hanen's Teacher Talk series of three one-day trainings is developed to provide core strategies to help you create rich and stimulating language-learning environments for the young children you work with.

This training will show you how to use everyday conversations, play and daily routines to promote children's communication and social development, including children with language delays and second language learners.

You will learn to:

• Identify children’s conversational styles and the role teachers play in interactions
• Implement steps to following the child’s lead; observe, wait and listen, be face-to-face, imitate, interpret, comment, and join in and play
• Help children become better conversation partners by using appropriate questions, comments and turn-taking cues
• Use important steps to ensure no child is left out of the interaction during group activities.

Additional information

Participants must complete 40 minutes of pre-session homework in advance. All participants will need a Hanen workbook which can be purchased from the trainer during the session – the workbook costs £18.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

Audience

Experienced family-facing early years practitioners, including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, setting practitioners, teachers and teaching assistants who have already completed foundation courses in this subject area.

Aims

Hanen's Teacher Talk series of three one-day trainings is developed to provide core strategies to help you create rich and stimulating language-learning environments for the young children you work with.

This training will discuss the important links between oral language development and literacy, and provide you with practical strategies for paving the way for children to read and write.

You will learn how to encourage and support literacy development by:

• Helping children develop a positive attitude toward the use of print
• Choosing books that match children’s interests and stages of development
• Using book reading as a time for interaction and conversation
• Making print a natural and meaningful part of every day.

Additional information

Delegates must have completed 'Hanen Teacher Talk Module 1' before joining this course. Participants must complete 40 minutes of pre-session homework in advance. All participants will need a Hanen workbook which can be purchased from the trainer during the session – the workbook costs £18

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

Audience

Experienced family-facing early years practitioners, including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, setting practitioners, teachers and teaching assistants who have already completed foundation courses in this subject area.

Aims

Hanen's Teacher Talk series of three one-day trainings is developed to provide core strategies to help you create rich and stimulating language-learning environments for the young children you work with.

This course is the third module in Hanen’s Teacher Talk programme. Only those who have completed the first module can join this course.

This training will show you how to provide a physical and social environment that encourages peer interaction and creates many opportunities for successful interactions with other children.

You will learn how to encourage and support peer interaction by:

• Making the most effective use of space in the classroom
• Encouraging a variety of groupings for interaction
• Providing appropriate materials and activities
• Creating reasons for interaction and providing specific coaching.

Additional information

Delegates must have completed 'Hanen Teacher Talk Module 1' before joining this course. Participants must complete 40 minutes of pre-session homework in advance. All participants will need a Hanen workbook which can be purchased from the trainer during the session – the workbook costs £18

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Audience

This two-hour online course is aimed at representatives of Talking Together in Cambridgeshire-funded groups, and Child and Family Centre workers who want to increase their knowledge of how to support families of children from birth to five who are learning to speak more than one language.

Aims

Throughout the course participants will learn to:

• Develop a shared understanding of the terminology
• Consider how children learn languages
• Review some of the important learning points that you might want to share with families
• Talk through some practical approaches that families can use to support children’s early language learning
• Explore some tips that you can use to support this work when families visit your groups.

Additional information

Please note, childminders and setting staff should join the 'Supporting Multilingual Learners in the EYFS' course.

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Audience

All adults who work with children aged birth to five in a setting or school-based provision.

Aims

Making it REAL is a family literacy project led by ECU at the National Children’s Bureau in partnership with the School of Education at the University of Sheffield and local authorities, schools, nurseries and children’s centres throughout England.

The work is inspired by and builds on, the learning of the original REAL project led by Professors Cathy Nutbrown and Peter Hannon.

REAL has a powerful impact on children’s learning, parents’ confidence and early years practice more generally.

This training has been informed by the experience of teachers and practitioners. It consists of pre-training activities, one facilitated training day and resources for further reflection and reading.

The aim is to enable practitioners to use the REAL approach in early literacy work with families and implement some practical projects involving home learning and literacy events.

Additional information

Pre-reading and evaluation questions before the training day.

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Audience

Free network meetings for all those who have completed the Introduction to Making it REAL training.

Aims

These network meetings provide opportunities to share ideas, discuss your practice and ask any questions. The meetings take place online three times across the academic year. Please feel free to book one or more.

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Audience

This course is part of the Speech and Language UK Early Talk birth to five years modular programme. It is aimed at family-facing early years practitioners including childminders, Child and Family Centre workers, setting practitioners, and representatives from Talking Together in Cambridgeshire-funded groups who want to increase their knowledge of typical early communication and language development.

Aims

The Early Talk birth to five years modular programme provides a suite of three-staged training modules that enable practitioners to support all their children’s communication and language skills through a range of strategies and techniques.

Throughout the course participants will learn to:

• Develop an understanding of the definitions of speech, language, and communication
• Enhance their knowledge about the stages of communication and language development
• Understand TALK strategies for supporting children’s communication and language development
• Explore the activities in the toolkit resource and reflect on how these might be used to support the communication and language needs of children
• Reflect on what a communication-enabling environment might look like
• Increase their understanding of possible speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) difficulties and who else could help.

Additional information

Participants must complete pre-session homework which should take approximately 30 minutes.

Participants will need to purchase a workbook costing £15, which will be invoiced later.

Each participating setting/school will require access to an Early Talk resource toolkit. Toolkits contain specific resources to support this training, one toolkit is suitable for all three of the Early Talk modules. Please get in touch with Helen.Wootton@cambridgeshire.gov.uk for further information.

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* Cambridgeshire Essentials

Audience

This course is aimed at family-facing early years practitioners including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, setting practitioners, and representatives from Talking Together in Cambridgeshire-funded groups who want to increase their knowledge of how to support young children’s (from birth to five) early communication, language, and literacy development.

Aims

The course will focus on how we can become more responsive to young children’s needs in our interactions with them. The role of the adult in the exchanges and the changes we could make to better support young children's communication language and literacy development will be considered before the focus shifts to understanding why we need to share quality information with young children and how we might do this.

Throughout the course participants will learn to:

• Understand how the way we communicate with children impacts on them
• Understand why quality interactions matter
• Develop strategies we can use to support interactions, and why these strategies help support children’s communication and language development
• Understand how the use of expansions and extensions can help us build on children’s existing knowledge.

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