PROFESSIONAL LEARNING WEBINAR
Making Connections with Songs & Languages Pedagogy
Songs offer children rich learning opportunities and are a popular method of instruction in the Early Childhood Language Program. Join Dr Siobhan Hannan to unpack the theory behind why they work and the linguistic, cultural and cognitive importance of songs in language learning.
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 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 children 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 21 October 2021.
Guest Speaker
Dr Siobhan Hannan is a language teacher, kindergarten teacher and university lecturer. She set up the North West Brunswick Kindergarten Italian language program that is now one of ten ECLP (Early Childhood Language Program) bilingual programs.
She has a PhD in early childhood bilingual pedagogy, and lectures in early childhood education. Siobhan has contributed to the rollout of the ECLP in several ways, including working with teachers to describe current early childhood language teaching practice in Melbourne, and developing and delivering training for language teachers.