PROFESSIONAL LEARNING WEBINAR
But they need me to speak Enlish, don’t they?
Why staying in target language matters!
In this webinar, we explore why staying in your target language matters—even on challenging days—and how educators can stay in their language while responding to real classroom moments, including when children need reassurance. You’ll gain practical strategies to resist the “quick switch to English,” use gesture, tone, play and repetition effectively, and keep your program rich, meaningful and immersive. This session reframes staying in the target language not as a limitation, but as a powerful, generous gift to every child in your program.
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.
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 1.5 hours to complete.
This webinar was run on 19 June 2026
Guest Speaker
Linton Roe is a teacher, school leader and languages educator. Linton presents at state, national and international conferences and has facilitated numerous workshops in Languages, Science and Music Education. Linton strives to design and implement practical, in-house professional learning programs for teachers and leadership teams, with an emphasis on demonstration, modelling and connecting student needs with program design.