Encourage, Respond, and Expand: Language Modeling in Pre-K

Please contact elcbtraining@elcbroward.org if you have questions or need assistance.

The preschool years are a critical time for development in children. They develop new language skills when they are given opportunities to use the language that they know and when adults model more complex language. These language skills are important to children’s academic and social success. This training is designed to give participants the tools and knowledge to encourage children to talk and provide them with a language-rich environment.

By the end of this training, participants will:
1. Recognize how to engage children in social and instructional conversations throughout the day (frequent conversations)
2. Recall how to ask children questions that require more than a one-word response (open-ended questions)
3. Recognize how to repeat what children say and build on their comments (repetition & extension)
4. Recall how to describe what you and the children do as it’s happening by mapping the student's and own actions with language (self-and parallel talk)
5. Recognize how to intentionally introduce unfamiliar vocabulary to children in a way that they can understand (advanced language)   

Technology Requirements
•  Computer, tablet, or smartphone
•  Internet Access 
•  For all smartphones, the GoToWebinar App must be downloaded

Attendance Policy: Participants missing more than 15 minutes of total training time will NOT receive a certificate of participation. Please be prepared to arrive on time and stay until the end of the training. Participants who leave the training early will not receive credit for the training. 

PLEASE NOTE: Registration is required. Participants who arrive 15 minutes late to this training will not be admitted. Participants MUST complete both the post test and training evaluation to receive a certificate of participation.