Home Visitor Webinar

Welcome! Introductions Today’s webinar Review the training and activity process Provide reminders about follow-up Provide overview of home visitor power point

Webinar Series http://earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_webinars.php

Montana – Summary of January 10 email At least two weeks before a training or activity: Complete CELL training record Contact CELL Day of the training or activity: Trainees complete training participant roster and other evaluation forms Make a copy of the training participant roster Within 1 week following training or activity: Complete CELL training notes & training material covered form Mail all forms to Puckett Institute Within 2 weeks following a training or activity: Send honorarium form and copy of training participant roster to regional CSPD coordinator

South Dakota – Summary of January 6 email Before a training or activity: Contact your ECE office Contact Wendy Highland Contact Fiona Helsel Day of the training or activity: Trainees complete training participant roster and other evaluation forms Within 1 week following training or activity: Complete training material covered form Give all forms to ECE office

Training and Activity Follow-Up Do follow-up with trainees Do follow-up with the people you talk to about CELL Send us the names and contact information of the people you train or talk to about CELL Follow-up can happen in multiple ways: Phone call, email, face-to-face, part of series training After a training or after less formal interactions

Training and Activity Follow-Up Follow-up can focus on multiple things: Reinforce the concepts you trained on or talked about Find out what they’re doing with information you gave them Consider using tip sheets (see CELL website www.earlyliteracylearning.org; general technical assistance) Consider using additional practices (see distance learning website; http://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_overview.php)

What is the Home Visitor PPT? Based on the power point you were trained on Made it more specific to the home visiting situation, especially the hands-on practices Appropriate for people who train home visitors and people who work in the home – look for natural opportunities to share information with a family Home visitors should adapt the language to the individual family

Finding the Home Visitor PPT Step 1: Go to our home page – www.earlyliteracylearning.org and click on “General Technical Assistance”

Finding the Home Visitor PPT Step 2: On the General Technical Assistance page, click on “CELL Presentations”

Finding the Home Visitor PPT Step 3: On the CELL Presentations page, click on the Home Visitor file that you want to view

Home Visitor PPT Content Provides introductory and overview information CELL Participatory Adult Learning Strategy (PALS) Early literacy learning model Materials (e.g., practice guides) Defines early literacy and early literacy domains Linguistic Processing Print-Related Listening Comprehension Print Awareness Oral Language Written Language Phonological Awareness Alphabet Knowledge Text Comprehension

Home Visitor PPT Content Goes through each component of the Early Literacy Learning Model using the Participatory Adult Learning Strategy ELLM Component PALS Component Literacy-Rich Environments Child Interests Everyday Literacy Activities Responsive Teaching Introduce Illustrate Practice Evaluate Reflect

Literacy-Rich Environments PALS Component Content Introduce Definition What it means to incorporate materials in functional ways Illustrate Areas in homes that provide opportunities for literacy learning Examples of incorporating materials in functional ways Practice Identify literacy-rich environments by watching the CELL video Making Room for Literacy Evaluate Answer questions about the practice activity Reflect Complete the Literacy-Rich Environments Reflection Checklist Additional Information Examples of home literacy materials

Child Interests PALS Component Content Introduce Definition Why they are important Illustrate Examples of child interests Interest-based cycle of mastery Practice Identify child interests by thinking about a child they know and answering questions about that child Identify each part of the cycle of mastery by watching the CELL video Interests Lead to Learning Evaluate Answer questions about the practice activity Reflect Complete the Child Interests Reflection Checklist

Everyday Literacy Activities PALS Component Content Introduce Definition Describe Everyday Literacy Activity Continuum Illustrate Watch the CELL video Pathways to Literacy to see how literacy learning opportunities can be found in everyday places, in everyday activities Informal and formal literacy activities Practice Complete Interest-Based Everyday Literacy Activity Checklist for own child Evaluate Answer questions about the practice activity Reflect Complete the Everyday Literacy Learning Activity Reflection Checklist

Learning Opportunities PALS Component Content Introduce Definition Illustrate Breadth and depth of learning opportunities, including tools to increase breadth and depth Watch the CELL video Banana Pudding Practice Look at a photo to identify and describe ways to create breadth and depth to expand the current learning experience. Provide literacy specific opportunities as well. Evaluate Answer questions about the practice activity Reflect Complete the Increasing Everyday Learning Opportunities Reflection Checklist

Responsive Teaching PALS Component Content Introduce Definition Responsive teaching techniques Illustrate Describes each of the responsive teaching techniques (with examples) Practice Watch the CELL video Get in Step with Responsive Teaching and note examples of caregiver doing each of the responsive teaching techniques Evaluate Answer questions about the practice activity Reflect Complete the Caregiver Responsive Teaching Reflection Checklist

Other Resources for Training http://www. earlyliteracylearning Presentations Videos Tools Practice Guides (especially those for parents) CELLcasts

Distance Learning Website www. earlyliteracylearning. org/dl_overview Distance Learning Website www.earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_overview.php

Wrap-Up Questions & Answers Upcoming webinars Archived CELL webinars http://earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_webinars.php

http://www.EarlyLiteracyLearning.org More Information? For more Technical Assistance support please visit; http://www.EarlyLiteracyLearning.org Or send an email to info@puckett.org Please reference CELL in the subject line.