Workshop | Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators Early Literacy
Hybrid Hands-On Professional Development Training Programs for Early Childhood Educators Early Literacy: The Art of Inventing Stories
This PD training is about imagination, listening, and fostering children’s natural ability to tell stories. In this training, we surpass the traditional definition of literacy (”the ability to read and write”) to explore how to support young children in building skills that will bring them to “identify, understand, interpret, create, and communicate in an increasingly digital, text-mediated, information-rich, and fast-changing world” (UNSECO most recent definition of “literacy”). To reach this goal and learn how to dig into young children’s languages, we use the story as a form of communication and interaction that doesn’t require the ability to read and write. During the training, both facilitator and participants will experience first-hand and in a hands-on way how children constantly invent stories by drawing (graphism and pre-graphism), pretend-playing, interpreting symbols, staging games, daydreaming, observing and listening to the surrounding world, creating new rules and structures, and hearing their voices. We will make up, tell, and listen to stories throughout the whole training session, aiming to discover the children’s art of invention.
Learning Objectives
Participants will “learn by doing” as many innate techniques children commonly use to invent stories.
They will learn how to support young children’s imagination and interact in imaginative play “environments.”
They will learn how to listen to any children’s verbal creative process and how to support them in finding their voice and other forms of expression, especially graphism.
They will learn new ways to share stories with children beyond reading books out loud.
They will learn how to construct a story by playfully analyzing the structure of stories.
Finally, they will learn how to use books non-conventionally as a source to invent new stories.
Workshop | Professional Development for Early Childhood Educators Early Literacy
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