WORKSHOP SERIES
The Early Years Planning Cycle: Our Key to Child-Led Learning
Join Kat and the ECLP Auslan teachers to unpack the Early Years Planning Cycle and how it can support our Auslan programs as part of the Early Childhood Language Program.
This workshop has been designed to support Auslan language teachers to plan for their Auslan language programs.
Before proceeding, we recommend you have permission from your manager to engage in this activity to ensure you are reimbursed for your time. We expect that this learning module takes approximately 1 hour to complete.
This workshop was run on 1 November 2023.
Speaker
Kat (Katharine Gronow) is mother of 3 and a teacher. Born, raised and always lived in the Western suburbs of Melbourne, Kat has worked in early learning centres, kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools, special schools, VET and University as well as her own community education business. At 7-years old (in the 1980s), Kat was introduced to Auslan at school in an attempt to accommodate for a hard-of-hearing (HoH) child, but did not learn about Deaf culture until early adulthood where she commenced a community Auslan course. This lead to a major in Auslan at National Institute for Deaf Studies (NIDS) at La Trobe University and she recently completed her Diploma in Auslan at Melbourne Polytechnic (MPT). Kat has volunteered at Furlong Park for the Deaf and Melbourne Deaflympics, worked at Victorian College for the Deaf and played with the Melbourne Deaf Cricket Club. Currently as part of her role as an academic at Victoria University, Kat is researching Auslan access for Deaf children from hearing families in Australia.