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Extending Children's Language and Expanding their World (£) (Cancelled)
Reason for cancellation
Venue
Bradley Stoke Community School (Primary Phase), Fiddlers Wood Lane
Event Tutors
KAREN NORTON / Claire Perry / PAULA YOUNG
Admin Contact
Early Years (earlyyears@southglos.gov.uk)
Target Audience
Childminders / Pre-Schools & Nurseries
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Children and Young People
Children and Young People subcategories
Early Years
Event description
This course is aimed at managers, communication leads, experienced practitioners, leaders and room leaders who are passionate about challenging and extending children’s speech, language and communication to narrow the gap and give children a voice and expand their world.
Building children’s vocabulary is critical for developing good language and communication skills. It is often a high priority especially when working with children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Evidence suggests that approaches need to be both implicit and explicit and vocabulary needs to ensure there is both depth and breadth of word knowledge for children to develop and improve their memory to generalise in situations and to expand and engage in the world around them. The more words a child hears, the better a talker that child becomes. The more a child explores, the more they wonder. Both the quantity of words and also the quality of conversations influence the ability to be a good communicator as a lifelong tool for the future.
How do we embed opportunities to develop children’s self-regulation and how they can motivate themselves to engage in learning? How do we use the teachable moments and develop learning based on accurate information, collected through observation and assessment to ensure children receive appropriate challenge and support?
We will explore how to extend children’s language to infinity and beyond.
“Speech, language and communication skills are fundamental to the development of learning and social and emotional well-being. They are essential to support the development of skills for life and work.” The Communication Trust: Every Child Understood (2008)
Building children’s vocabulary is critical for developing good language and communication skills. It is often a high priority especially when working with children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Evidence suggests that approaches need to be both implicit and explicit and vocabulary needs to ensure there is both depth and breadth of word knowledge for children to develop and improve their memory to generalise in situations and to expand and engage in the world around them. The more words a child hears, the better a talker that child becomes. The more a child explores, the more they wonder. Both the quantity of words and also the quality of conversations influence the ability to be a good communicator as a lifelong tool for the future.
How do we embed opportunities to develop children’s self-regulation and how they can motivate themselves to engage in learning? How do we use the teachable moments and develop learning based on accurate information, collected through observation and assessment to ensure children receive appropriate challenge and support?
We will explore how to extend children’s language to infinity and beyond.
“Speech, language and communication skills are fundamental to the development of learning and social and emotional well-being. They are essential to support the development of skills for life and work.” The Communication Trust: Every Child Understood (2008)
Learning outcomes
To explore how memory (brain development) plays a very important part of children’s understanding and use of a wide range of vocabulary.
To understand how to introduce a wide range of new and exciting vocabulary in a child centred way.
To understand how to introduce a wide range of new and exciting vocabulary in a child centred way.
Start Date
Friday 22 March 2019
End Date
Friday 22 March 2019
Closing Date
Thursday 21 March 2019
Times
09:15 - 12:15
Maximum Places
24
Cost
£30.00
Number of Sessions
1
Certificate expiry
No
Pass/Fail event
No