Young children talking started as a small book for Early Education and then developed into a keynote, seminar and one days training.
It explores the following;
- Why children need to chat – conversational talk is crucial to children’s development and learning
- The relationship between talking, thinking and learning
- How practitioners can support children’s talking, thinking and learning
- How this relates to child initiated learning and sustained shared thinking
- Building practitioners and teachers thinking, knowledge and practice through reflecting on how we support young children’s conversational interactions
- The way in which we can lead good practice
Young children are very capable and competent conversationalists using a range of ways to communicate not just through the spoken word. As Loris Malaguzzi says they have ‘One Hundred Languages’. Children’s conversations are a reflection of who they are, what interests them and their thinking. We need to spend more time listening to children’s conversations and encouraging the deep thinking, reasoning and problem solving that emerges from their chatter.
What people said?
In depth look at language and communication which was really useful. Di delivered this training well and I have left very enthusiastic
Fantastic ideas and information – inspirational, exciting and refreshing
Thank-you for showing us a more constructive way of recording children’s voices through observation
Very informative, structured but in a narrative, interesting and graphic way. Lots of room for interaction. I wish all my staff were here. Thank-you