Supporting Early Language Development Programme - Launceston

Key Aims

For the purposes of this programme, we will concentrate on the classroom/school environment, with a focus on providing:

• An understanding of a working model of language through which to observe children’s language development through the primary years, and beyond.

• An understanding of the stages of ‘typical’ language development concentrating on the expected milestones that occur during primary years (ages 4 to 11).

• Practical classroom skills and techniques for quality first teaching in YR and KS1 that will create skilled and confident classroom practitioners and improve outcomes for all children.

• Ways and tools to identify children who may not be developing language skills as expected and ways to support those children in class.

Session 1: What is language and how it is developed?

Session 2: Supporting Talk in Schools.

Session 3: Teaching words and making them stick.​

Session 4: Identifying and Supporting SLCN.

Session 5: Making Change: Sustaining Change.

Session 6: Sharing the School Improvement Journey.

Sessions are connected by gap tasks, which support schools in understanding their own context.