Home Visitor WebinarHome Visitor Webinar

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Welcome!Welcome!

• Introductions• Today’s webinar

– Review the training and activity process– Provide reminders about follow-up– Provide overview of home visitor power point

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Webinar SeriesWebinar Series

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http://earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_webinars.php

Montana – Summary of January 10 emailMontana – Summary of January 10 emailAt least two weeks before a training or activity:

1. Complete CELL training record

2. Contact CELL

Day of the training or activity:1. Trainees complete training participant roster and other

evaluation forms

2. Make a copy of the training participant roster

Within 1 week following training or activity:1. Complete CELL training notes & training material covered

form

2. Mail all forms to Puckett Institute

Within 2 weeks following a training or activity:1. Send honorarium form and copy of training participant roster to

regional CSPD coordinator4

South Dakota – Summary of January 6 emailSouth Dakota – Summary of January 6 email

Before a training or activity:1. Contact your ECE office

2. Contact Wendy Highland

3. Contact Fiona Helsel

Day of the training or activity:1. Trainees complete training participant roster and

other evaluation forms

Within 1 week following training or activity:1. Complete training material covered form

2. Give all forms to ECE office

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Training and Activity Follow-UpTraining 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

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Training and Activity Follow-UpTraining 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)

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What is the Home Visitor PPT?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

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Finding the Home Visitor PPTFinding the Home Visitor PPT

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

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Finding the Home Visitor PPTFinding the Home Visitor PPT

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

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Finding the Home Visitor PPTFinding the Home Visitor PPT

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

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Home Visitor PPT ContentHome 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

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Linguistic Processing Print-Related

Listening Comprehension Print Awareness

Oral Language Written Language

Phonological Awareness Alphabet Knowledge

Text Comprehension

Home Visitor PPT ContentHome Visitor PPT Content

• Goes through each component of the Early Literacy Learning Model using the Participatory Adult Learning Strategy

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ELLM Component PALS Component

Literacy-Rich EnvironmentsChild Interests

Everyday Literacy ActivitiesResponsive Teaching

Introduce

Illustrate

Practice

Evaluate

Reflect

Literacy-Rich EnvironmentsLiteracy-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

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Child InterestsChild 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

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Everyday Literacy ActivitiesEveryday 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

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Learning OpportunitiesLearning 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

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Responsive TeachingResponsive 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

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Other Resources for TrainingOther Resources for Traininghttp://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ta_pract_main.php

• Presentations• Videos• Tools• Practice Guides

(especially those for parents)

• CELLcasts

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Distance Learning WebsiteDistance Learning Websitewww.earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_overview.php

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Wrap-UpWrap-Up

• Questions & Answers• Upcoming webinars• Archived CELL webinars

– http://earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_webinars.php

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More Information?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.

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