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Target Audience

Childminders and PVI settings with an interest in developing their knowledge and understanding of delivering high quality phonics to young children.

Essential training for settings with Nursery school aged children.

 

Course Outline

This course will give you an overview of Phase 1 Aspects 1-7 of the Letters and Sounds Phonics programme. It will look at practical ways you can deliver high quality phonics activities in your setting.

This course will be over 3 virtual sessions (each session will last 1 hour) Practitioners are required to attend all sessions.

 - Session 1: Aspect 1-3

 - Session 2: Aspect 4 & 5

 - Session 3: Aspects 6 & 7

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This intense two-day training is designed to teach participants the theory behind PECS and the protocols on how to appropriately implement the six
phases. PECS is used to teach communication skills rapidly to those with limited functional speech.

Who should attend?

This workshop is appropriate for all members of the educational team who would like to learn about the Picture Exchange Communication System™ (PECS), including Centre staff, SENDCOs, speech & language therapists, parents, teachers, SEND professionals, behaviour analysts, psychologists, social workers and/or other professionals who are providing services for individuals with special educational needs.

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Target Audience

Early Years Practitioners

 

Course Aims

Increase knowledge and understanding of how communication and attachment relationships develop from birth

Share the Let’s Talk Together Traffic Light System of Positive Interaction

Watch and analyse video footage of how these key interaction strategies can be used effectively to develop the emotional health and communication skills of all children

Reflect on how settings are already supporting the development of communication skills and emotional health and identify an area that could be improved

 

This informative, interactive course is split into two remote leaning sessions:

Positive Interaction - Session 1

It’s all about you - Developing a shared understanding of why the positive interactions a child experiences from birth play such an important role in their future as well as taking a moment to reflect on the impact of not having enough positive interactions.

Positive interaction strategies in practice - What are the PI strategies, and can we identify them being used?

 

Positive Interaction - Session 2

It’s not all talk - Understandingcommunication development as a pyramid of skills.

Being a clear model - Through analysing more video footage, practitioners will be supported to look again at key positive interaction strategies in more detail and identify the positive impact they have on young children and the quality of their learning experience.

 

Time to reflect

Participants will have an opportunity to reflect and identify a key area for developing positive interaction in their own practice.

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