Young Children’s Voices Network (YCVN) has developed a range of courses to support practitioners and those in strategic roles to develop practice in listening to young children. All courses are facilitated by experienced trainers supported and assessed by NCB, and provide participants with resources to support the training and ongoing development. Options are available to local authorities (LAs) supporting early years settings, and direct to settings.
Listening as a way of life – In your early years setting
YCVN now offers a new more affordable way to support practice development. This is aimed at groups of practitioners in a shared locality and is designed to provide an opportunity to receive training to enhance existing practice and to plan next steps forward for individual settings.
One day course for 8-12 participants facilitated by one trainer
£1200 (excluding venue + catering costs which are arranged by the setting)
The course aims to inspire and enable practitioners to listen to young children and involve them in decisions which affect their lives, through everyday practice.
Course Objectives:
- To understand the benefits of listening for children, practitioners, parents and early years services
- To identify challenges to listening and ways of overcoming these
- To explore the different ‘languages’ through which children communicate and ways in which they can help children to express their ideas, feelings and preferences
- To reflect on their current practice and plan how to develop children’s involvement in the design, development and delivery of early years services
Listening as a way of life - Local Authority option
One day course for 20 participants facilitated by one trainer
£2500 (excluding venue + catering costs which are arranged by the LA or organisation)
The course aims to inspire and enable practitioners to listen to young children and involve them in decisions which affect their lives, through everyday practice.
Course objectives:
- Understand the benefits of listening to children, practitioners, parents and early years services
- Identify the challenges to listening and ways of overcoming these
- Explore the different ‘languages’ through which children communicate and ways to help children to express their ideas, feelings and preferences
- Reflect on their current practice and plan how to develop children’s involvement in the design, development and delivery of early years services
Embedding listening within the Early Years - Local Authority or whole centre option
One day course for 20 participants facilitated by 2 trainers
£2500 (excluding venue + catering costs which are arranged by the LA or organisation)
The course aims to inspire advisors, managers and those in strategic roles to support practitioners in listening to young children and involving them in decisions which affect their lives, through everyday practice. This course also explores the links between listening to young children and other related practice, such as involvement of parents as partners in their children’s learning and creating a broader listening culture as part of quality improvement.
Course objectives:
- These include identifying the importance of listening as part of everyday practice and examining the concept of a listening culture.
- Practitioners will also identify values and principles and explore policy context and research in order to effect and support positive change.
The Mosaic approach provides a framework for listening to young children’s views and experiences.
The training is aimed at those who have undertaken introductory training in listening to young children, have experience in using basic listening techniques, and would like to focus on a specific tool for listening to young children’s views and experiences.
Course objectives:
- Understand the background to the Mosaic Approach
- Explore case-studies of the Mosaic Approach in practice
- Identify ways of interpreting and analysing material produced by children
- Reflect on their current practice and plan for integrating and utilising the Mosaic Approach within settings.
For Further information or to book YCVN training please contact
Priya Plowman on 0207 843 6444
email pplowman@ncb.org.uk
Visit www.ncb.org.uk/ycvn
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