The use of sign supported language developed with the intention to offer hearing children from linguistically different environments a chance to communicate in a more differentiated way, i.e. communicate their emotions, wishes and needs before they are able to do so in spoken language of the early years environment, and for as long as the efficiency of spoken language production (with special regard to vocabulary) is lower than that of sign production.
Final conference of the project
You are kindly invited to take part in final Conference of the project Multicultural and multilingual learning in early years which will take place at College for Early years education, Ljubljana, Kardeljeva ploščad 16, on Friday, 31st May.
Partners of the project
This framework is based on the results from the interviews and discussions with childcare professionals and managers at 15 nurseries/preschools in the period between January and March, 20017. In the search for the ideas, we have looked for the examples of good practises from the previous or ongoing Erasmus plus projects, in particular, the cases of the similar projects within Comenius/Erasmus plus project funding scheme in particular: the projects Parents Corner and Supporting Social and Emotional Competences of Preschool Children.
Greece: Story of my name and Heroes and heroines in my family
The 6 hours training program on four learning activities on “The story of my name” and two by the subject “Heroes and heroines in my family”.
Sweden: Using sign language and QR codes in the preschool classroom
The 16 hours training program on using sign-language and QR-codes in the preschool classroom to support early language acquisition and integration have proven to be successful scaffolding tools for all children, but especially those with another native tongue.
The Czech Republic: Good Start Teacher Training
The 40-hour training program – Support of Social and Emotional Development of Pre-school Children from Socially Disadvantaged or Culturally Different Environment.
The main goal of the training program based on the “Good Start” methodology is to increase the competences of pedagogical staff in pre-school facilities, thus contributing to the improvement of work with children, supporting healthy development and growth of children in terms of development of their social and emotional skills in early years
Framework for Parental Involvement
This framework is based on the results from the interviews and discussions with childcare professionals and managers at 15 nurseries/preschools in the period between January and March, 20017. In the search for the ideas, we have looked for the examples of good practises from the previous or ongoing Erasmus plus projects, in particular, the cases of the similar projects within Comenius/Erasmus plus project funding scheme in particular: the projects Parents Corner and Supporting Social and Emotional Competences of Preschool Children.
Catalogue of Skills and Knowledge
We prepared a catalogue of all necessary skills and knowledge for the teacher to be better suited to work with the children in a different cultural environment.
The Visibility Study
We collected key statistical data on migration in Greece, Czech Republic, Sweden, and United Kingdom to be able to identify the specific problems, which teachers and pedagogical personnel are facing in work with children from the different cultural and linguistic environment.