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DECEMBER Masterclass
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A 60-minute Masterclass for educators of children aged 3 to 8 years, including school leaders
Join Dr. Jo Fahey to gain insights into the often undervalued ways young children communicate, for example, through mark-making, drawing, story-telling, story-acting, and book-making.
December 12, 07:00 am UTC
with Dr. Jo Fahey
Tapping into children's authentic ways of communicating
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- Feeling the downward pressure of expectations about what the children in your class should be learning in literacy?
- Tapping into children's ways of showing us what they know in literacy, what their funds of knowledge are?
Educators in the past haven't always realized the connection between early mark-making and the later adoption of symbolic conventions.
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The more that young children use their graphical signs to communicate their thinking, the more readily they will understand the conventions of standard symbols and texts.
For many reasons, children's natural modes of expression are often stifled in school contexts. For example, giving children opportunities for story-telling, story-acting, and book-making is an effective strategy for harnessing children’s natural communication methods.
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How you can help children understand the conventions of symbols and texts?
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How can you harness children's multiple ways of communicating?
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Why children's early mark-making is often under-valued in the educational setting?
Meet your Presenter,
Dr. Jo Fahey
Dr. Jo Fahey has the lived experience of teaching and learning with young children for many years in both national and international settings.
For over 30 years, Jo has alternated between teaching in schools and preschools, working in the university sector, and leading professional learning for educators - particularly early years educators - in Europe, the Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East.
Jo has conducted extensive research leading to a doctoral dissertation. This, in turn, led to the publication of her book, ‘Ways to Learn Through Inquiry: Guiding Children to Deeper Understanding’, published in 2012 by the International Baccalaureate.
Most recently Jo has been running on-line courses including Playful Literacies: Honouring Children's Agency and The Power of Play: International Conversations.
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Let your children's natural ways of communicating help them to transition to conventional literacy.
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Reignite your knowledge of how to harness children’s natural ways of communicating to benefit their current and future literacy learning.
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