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

Intended For: Supervisor/Director, Registered ECEs, Home Child Care Visitors, Early Childhood Assistants, Home Child Care Providers, Designated Early Childhood Educators, Family Support Workers, School Teachers, ECB Resource Consultation Staff, Owner Operator - Early Learning and Care Programs, Specialized Resource Consultants

Registration Closed

Date: Mar 19, 2025

Time: 12:00 PM - 02:30 PM

Fee: FREE

Description

Sessions will be held on March 17th, March 19th, and March 21st 12-2:30PM. Participants must be able to attend all three dates to register.

This popular training from The Hanen Centre addresses how to foster language development through daily interaction with young children. 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.

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: The Hanen Centre (CASLPO), Laura Hutchinson (M.Sc., SLP(C), CCC-SLP Reg.CASLPO)