Communication & Language

Audience

Practitioners working with families with children from two to five years.

Aims

• Help practitioners to work with parents to give them knowledge, skills and confidence to support them to create positive home learning environments.
• Focus on meaningful communication and literacy that children make sense of and enjoy, as part of everyday lives.
• Boost children's communication language and early literacy development.
• Be fun, engaging, inclusive and accessible for all, through a low or no cost approach.
• Enable practitioners to gain understanding of the REAL approach, identify ways to include it in everyday practise, whilst sharing it with families, building confidence and knowledge to support the home learning environment.
• Develop a multi-agency approach to supporting parents to develop their home learning environments, specifically focusing on communication, language, and literacy.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

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.

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.

Aims

Hanen's Teacher Talk training series is based on ‘Learning Language and Loving It’, the Hanen programme for early childhood educators. It has been developed to provide core strategies to help delegates create rich and stimulating language-learning environments for the young children they work with.

This three-session online course will show delegates 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.

Delegates will learn to:

• Identify children’s conversational styles and the role teachers play in interactions.
• Implement steps to follow 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

Learners will need to receive a participant's handbook, included in the cost of the course, from the trainer. Learners will also need to complete pre-session homework, which will take approximately 30 minutes.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

Audience

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 with a particular focus on young children from birth to five.

Aims

TBC

Additional information

Delegates will receive a speech and language toolkit worth £85 included in the cost of the course.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

Audience

Anyone who works with children from birth to five and families of children from birth to five.

Aims

This course will support delegates to develop their understanding of:

• How our communication with children impacts them.
• Why quality interactions matter.
• Strategies you can use to support interactions.
• Why these strategies help support children's communication and language development.
• How the use of expansions and extensions can help you build on children's existing knowledge.

Additional information

Delegates will be expected to take part in the interactive activities with other delegates and share their experiences of these activities.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.