Learning Language and Loving It™ Certification Workshop

By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

• Provide effective, state-of-the-art group training to educators through Learning Language and Loving It – The Hanen Program® for Early Childhood Educators/Teachers, which integrates the principles of language facilitation with a child centered approached to early childhood education.
• Lead Learning Language and Loving It – The Hanen Program® for Early Childhood Educators/Teachers, which addresses prevention of language delays, early language intervention and language enrichment in early childhood settings.
• Provide educators with strategies to promote social, language and literacy development in one-to-one and group interactions with children who are typically developing, are second language learners, have language delays, or are at risk for language delay.
• Help educators create enriched, interactive language-learning environments in play and daily routines.
• Utilize principles of adult education to provide teachers with the necessary knowledge and skills to create optimal language learning environments for all children.
• Plan and conduct interactive group sessions in the Learning Language and Loving It Program.
• Assess videos of teacher-child interactions in terms of teachers’ application of responsive strategies and provide constructive, informative feedback to teachers to facilitate generalization of strategy use.
• Evaluate videos of interactions in terms of application of responsive strategies using the Teacher Interaction and Language Rating Scale.

You will need access to the Learning Language and Loving It guidebook (Weitzman and Greenberg, 2002) in order to attend this training. Please wait for email instruction from The Hanen Centre before purchasing the guidebook.