Introduction to Book Making with 4-8 Year Olds ONLINE Mini-Course - Term 2 2024

Introduction to Bookmaking

with 3-8 Year Olds

Online Mini Course

Facilitated by Mimi Hayward and Katie Ashmead

This Mini Course has a specific focus on working with 3 - 8 year old writers in

Kindergarten (Preschool) and Early Years of School.

Registrations close Wednesday 8th May 6pm ACST. 

REPEATED BY POPULAR DEMAND! 

Early Childhood Educators understand that young children bring with them a wealth of literacy understandings and competencies as they begin Kindergarten and Reception. The Book-making approach to literacy values and honours children’s prior learning, their cultural competence and their dispositions for learning. It uses these to drive learning deeper and to create a culture of thinking, talking and noticing about books. It values the intellectual quality of mark-making as an essential component of being a writer.

A book-making approach not only sees children from this competent lens, it empowers children to see themselves as competent writers. The approach challenges pedagogical practices that see children as empty learners; who are needy because they know so little.

We have facilitated workshops about the Pedagogy of Bookmaking for over 14 years - throughout South Australia, in New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, USA, Canada and Shanghai! This rich pedagogy engages children in language and literacy, motivates them to become deeply involved in their learning and also excites educators when they see children learning to their potential. 

You will learn:

• the guiding principles for this rich pedagogical approach
• ways to get started whether you are working in a preschool or primary context
• how to use literature to power up your teaching
• how Bookmaking empowers children to see themselves as readers and writers
• how Bookmaking also is a context for developing oral language through language composition
• an introduction to how you can organise the teaching and learning (curriculum) in meaningful ways

Please note: registration for this mini course is for 2 sessions and will be facilitated via Zoom (will be recorded and available for 2 weeks if you're not able to make that time zone):

Saturday 11 May 2024 - 9:30am - 2:30pm (Australian Central Standard Time)

Saturday 1 June 2024 - 9:30am - 1:00pm (Australian Central Standard Time)

Please email Lisa if you are a full time student who wishes to participate in this mini course.

Discount is offered for teams of 5 or more from the same site. Please email Lisa with the names of those who will be registering to access your discount code. 

Please note: registration is via Humanitix and payment is strictly by credit card only. Manual registration and invoicing is not available. You are automatically sent a tax invoice when registering on Humanitix. 

Part of your booking fee will be donated to support Indigenous Education Scholarships.