Communication, Language, and Literacy

Audience

This module supplements the Hanen Teacher Talk modular programme. The course is aimed at experienced family-facing early years practitioners including childminders, Child and Family Centre staff, and setting practitioners.

Aims

Throughout the course participants will learn to:

• Better understand why receiving sensitive news is difficult for parents
• Plan and apply effective strategies when sharing sensitive news with parents.

Additional information

Only those who have completed 'Hanen’s Teacher Talk Module 1: Encouraging Language Development in Early Childhood Settings' course can join this course.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.

Audience

This course 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 how to support young children’s (from birth to five) early communication, language, and literacy (CLL) development.

Aims

The course will focus on how we can become more responsive to children’s needs in our interactions to support their language acquisition better. The role of the adult in the exchanges and the changes we could make to better support young children 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.

Additional information

This course is currently being offered free of charge - For a limited period only.

Booking and reservations for Early Years Workforce Development.