Early Years Workshops: Becoming a Makaton friendly school

Early Years Workshops: Becoming a Makaton friendly school - a journey- practitioner reflections including challenges, successes and implementation ideas

Makaton is a type of sign language that uses signs and symbols to match spoken words simultaneously and help people with communication difficulties. Makaton is increasingly adopted by educators to help develop and increase access to communication not just for people of determination, but for all students.

• To explore the development of gesture and speech and how the integration of signs and symbols in the classroom enhances language development for all
• To examine one early years settings journey in integrating Makaton to create a more inclusive environment and become a Makaton friendly school.
• To reproduce a bank of signs to use in the early years classroom and begin growing your own repertoire

Specialised Learning for Early Years Practitioners
At TELLAL, we are committed to supporting Early Years professionals at whichever stage in their career they may be. In order to help them maximise their potential, TELLAL offers a wide range of tailor-made professional learning and development opportunities. These training workshops are developed to suit the needs of Early Years Teachers in schools and learners in nurseries and Early Learning Centres.

Who are the Early Years Teacher Training Workshops for?
The Early Years Teacher Training Programmes are for individuals looking to improve their students experience in the classroom. These may be:

• Early Years Teachers and Leaders in a school setting
• Early Years Teaching Assistants wanting to up skill towards becoming a Teacher