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Dates:
Monday 13 October
Monday 20 October
Monday 27 October
Time: 3.45pm - 4.45pm (AEST)
Venue: Online via HD Video Conference
Cost: Free

Early Childhood Literacy Workshop - Presentation, Session 1 (pdf, 389kb)

Early Childhood Literacy Workshop - Presentation, Session 2 (pdf, 1MB)

Early Childhood Literacy Workshop - Presentation, Session 3 (pdf, 1MB)

Get involved in Connected Educator Month by joining this online professional learning workshop focused on building the capacity of Early Childhood Teachers and Practitioners. The three part workshop will:

• Explore strategies that support children to develop their skills as effective communicators.
• Use digital media, which is aligned with and will incorporate the cross-curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures.
• Focus on the importance of the appropriate integration of innovative and engaging ICTs to teach literacy skills.

This dynamic online event supports educators to engage students with practical strategies and engaging resources that support the development of the literacy skills of all learners:

• Develop learners’ knowledge, understanding and skills in listening, reading, viewing, speaking, writing and creating.
• Engage learners in developing their critical and creative thinking skills (higher order skills) connecting students with stories that support their development of sense of self, and their personal and social capabilities.
• Understand how stories help us to record history, build culture and develop a sense of self and community.
• Support learners to understand the different elements of a multimodal text and make meaning from these different elements: aural, visual, gestural, inferential, and written.
• Develop skills as multiliterate learners of the future.

Connected Educator Month

Millions of educators and others around the world have participated in hundreds of professional learning opportunities as part of Connected Educator Month (CEM) the last two years. Developed and facilitated by the U.S. Department of Education and its partners as part of the Connected Educators initiative, Connected Educator Month offers highly distributed, diverse, and engaging activities to educators at all levels.

This year DEECD are partnering with CORE Education in New Zealand to trial how this project may look in the Southern Hemisphere.

The goals of CEM for Victoria include:

• Actively promoting the tool set available to Victorian educators, i.e. Fuse, Blackboard Collaborate, Lync, Polycom, etc.
• Promoting professional learning events with educational relevance
• Connecting educators to establish networks
• Building educator understanding and skills which they ultimately use to improve classroom practice
• Encouraging more educators to connect using social media, leading to rich opportunities for improved practice
• Deepening and sustaining learning among those already enjoying connection’s benefits
• Helping schools credential/integrate connected learning into their formal professional development efforts
• Stimulating and supporting innovation.