Teacher Talk™ Training A: Encouraging Language Development in Early Childhood Settings - ONLINE

Intended For: All Professionals

Registration Closed

Date: Feb 08, 2021 @ 12:00 PM - Feb 12, 2021 @ 02:30 PM

Fee: FREE

Description

Please note that the training will take place on February 8, 10, 12, 2021 from 12 PM - 2:30 PM. To register, you must be able to attend all three days.

This popular training from The Hanen Centre addresses how to foster language development through daily interaction with young children. For the first time, it is now being offered online through ZOOM. Just like the in-person training, this series of three 2½ hour sessions will offer opportunities for discussion, interaction and practice. Participants receive a comprehensive workbook for planning how to apply their new knowledge and language facilitating strategies to their interactions with children in their centres.

In order to participate in the ZOOM Online Meeting platform, participants will need:

• A desktop computer, laptop or tablet
• An internet connection – wireless (3G or 4G/LTE) or broadband wired (preferred, if possible, to avoid internet delays)
• Speakers and a microphone – built-in or USB plug-in or wireless Bluetooth
• A webcam

NOTE: This training is a pre-requisite to Teacher Talk™ B: Let Language Lead the Way to Literacy and Teacher Talk™ C: Fostering Peer Interaction in Early Childhood Setting.

Session Objective

• Understand the important role educators play in facilitating language development during daily interactions.
• Learn and implement strategies that support interaction and language development in infants, toddlers and preschoolers – with specific attention given to maintaining quality interactions amidst new COVID-19 health and safety protocols in childcare settings

Location: Online

Standards of practice

• Caring and Responsive Relationships
• Professionalism and Leadership

Presented By: Laura Hutchinson (M.Sc., SLP(C), CCC-SLP Reg.CASLPO),