PROFESSIONAL LEARNING WEBINAR
Engaging Families in the Language Program
Join Catharine Hydon as she goes through the benefits and practicalities of engaging families in your language program.
Before proceeding, we recommend you have permission from your manager to engage in this activity to ensure you are compensated for your time. We expect that this learning module takes approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete.
This learning module is designed for all teachers and educators engaged in delivering the Early Childhood Language Program, to explore the skills, knowledge, and practices that early childhood professionals need to effectively engage families in the language program.
We have designed this learning session to be conducted as a professional development opportunity for your whole team, to encourage meaningful discussion and planning for action together. However, where that is not possible the module is also suited to individual access.
We hope this learning module is meaningful for your program and we welcome your input to build on the skills, resources, and support for the whole Early Childhood Language Program cohort of early childhood professionals.
This webinar was run on 1 December 2020.
Guest Speaker
The Quality Support Program is excited to have early childhood consultant, Catharine Hydon, leading us through a range of guiding concepts for engaging families and linking these concepts to the Victorian Early Years Learning and Development Framework.
Catharine Hydon has extensive experience in the early childhood sector in Australia and overseas. Beginning as a teacher in a sessional kindergarten program, Catharine has gone on to manage a range of services for children and their families. Discover more about Catharine and the work she is doing in the early childhood sector on her website, Hydon Consulting.
Resources
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Engaging Families in the Early Childhood Development Story (2010)
Connecting with families: Bringing the Early Years Learning Framework to life in your community
Building partnerships between families and early childhood staff (2012)
Quality Area 6 Introduction: Collaborative partnerships with families and communities (2020)
VEYLDF Evidence Paper - Practice Principle 1: Family-Centred Practice (2010)
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During the webinar Catharine mentioned several significant people that have had an impact of early childhood education in Victoria and beyond.
Dr Priscilla Clarke OAM was formally Executive Director of fka Children’s Services, which includes the Multicultural Resource Centre. Priscilla has conducted professional development for early years professionals in Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Ireland. She is the author of many publications including a book written jointly with Professor Iram Siraj-Blatchford and published by Open University Press.
In 2003, Dr Clarke was awarded an Order of Australia Medal for her significant contribution to the bilingual preschool education of immigrant and refugee children.
Resource: Learning English as an Additional Language in the Early Years (birth to six years)
Discussion Paper: Learning English as an Additional Language in the Early Years (birth to six years)
Loris Malaguzzi was an early childhood educator who founded the educational philosophy known as the Reggio Emilia Approach. He was instrumental in the creation of a network of municipal preschools and infant-toddler centers in the Italian town of Reggio Emilia. You can read more about Malaguzzi on the Play and Playground Encyclopedia.
Urie Bronfenbrenner (April 29, 1917 – September 25, 2005) was a Russian-born American psychologist who is most known for his ecological systems theory. His work with the United States government helped in the formation of the Head start program in 1965. Bronfenbrenner's ability research was key in changing the perspective of developmental psychology by calling attention to the large number of environmental and societal influences on child development.