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This course explores the development of literacies in the early years and how teachers can support young children to understand and express themselves in multiple ways. It will provide participants with the tools to reflect upon and apply practices and strategies in their own unique local early childhood education contexts.
Learning objectives:
Outcomes: Throughout the course, you will be supported to put your learning into action in your own context of practice through undertaking a case study of a particular child.
Interviews with
Case studies of practice
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Course outline
PART 1
Core principles of early literacies
Explore the multiple forms of literacy in early childhood education settings, including embodied, spoken, and written literacies, including:
PART 2
Embodied, nonverbal literacies
This part explores some of the ways that children learn to understand and express their meaning in embodied, nonverbal ways. This includes:
PART 3
Spoken and written literacies
This part focuses on ways that early childhood teachers can encourage children to develop spoken and written literacies through everyday interactions. This includes:
PART 4
The power of stories
This part examines why stories are such an important aspect of literacy for young children. This includes:
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Early Literacies Course
Enrolment instructions
1. Select your enrolment requirements below carefully, especially if you are enrolling a group.
2. If you are enrolling someone else (one person or more) onto the course, and you do not wish to take the course yourself, you must choose the option called Enrol others NOT yourself. You will receive information about how to invite them onto the course after you have completed the transaction.
3. You can choose to pay via invoice (choose offline payment on the next page), Paypal or by credit card.
4. Once enrolled, you’ll find the course on your Account page. You will also receive an email welcoming you to the course.
Group enrolments
Enrolling as a group offers you great savings, and enables teachers to share their learning journeys and centres to collectively make changes in their practice based on their learning. Each teacher receives their own log in, linked to their email address, and can complete the course in their own time, on their own computer or tablet.
Pricing
- 1 teacher: NZ$110.00
- 2-10 teachers: SAVE 15% (NZ$93.50pp)
- 11-25 teachers: SAVE 20% (NZ$88.00pp)
- 26+ teachers: SAVE 25% (NZ$82.50pp)
- Please note: Prices are subject to 15% GST (local sales tax). Discounts only apply to group enrolments made in one transaction, and cannot be applied retrospectively if your group size increases.
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- Lifetime access*
- Online discussion boards
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Discounted
Enrol others NOT yourself
from NZ $82 .50
- Group discounts of 15-25%
- Lifetime access*
- Online discussion boards
- Personalised certificates
Prices shown are per person, and are subject to GST (local sales tax) of 15%. * Lifetime access means for as long as the course is hosted on The Education Hub
Keeping our courses affordable
The Education Hub wants as many teachers as possible to be able to take our courses and benefit from the high quality professional learning they offer. Therefore, we are committed to keeping course fees as low as possible. It is through the support of our ever-generous supporters that we can produce such rich, multimodal learning opportunities while offering participants significant subsidies.
Please note, all our courses are best completed on a desktop/laptop computer or tablet. Because of the amount of content, we do not recommend using a phone.
* Group discounts apply to the full price, and can only be applied in one transaction, not retrospectively, or on the addition of more enrolments. ** Our standard terms and conditions are available here
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