Home Visitor Webinar

1. Home Visitor Webinar

2. Welcome! • Introductions • Today’s webinar • Review the training and activity process • Provide reminders about follow-up • Provide overview of home visitor power point

3. Webinar Series • http://earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_webinars.php

4. Montana – Summary of January 10 email At least two weeks before a training or activity: • Complete CELL training record • Contact CELL Day of the training or activity: • Trainees complete training participant roster and other evaluation forms • Make a copy of the training participant roster Within 1 week following training or activity: • Complete CELL training notes & training material covered form • Mail all forms to Puckett Institute Within 2 weeks following a training or activity: • Send honorarium form and copy of training participant roster to regional CSPD coordinator

5. South Dakota – Summary of January 6 email Before a training or activity: • Contact your ECE office • Contact Wendy Highland • Contact Fiona Helsel Day of the training or activity: • Trainees complete training participant roster and other evaluation forms Within 1 week following training or activity: • Complete training material covered form • Give all forms to ECE office

6. Training 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

7. Training 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)

8. 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

9. Finding the Home Visitor PPT Step 1: Go to our home page – www.earlyliteracylearning.org and click on “General Technical Assistance”

10. Finding the Home Visitor PPT Step 2: On the General Technical Assistance page, click on “CELL Presentations”

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

12. Home 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

13. Home Visitor PPT Content • Goes through each component of the Early Literacy Learning Model using the Participatory Adult Learning Strategy

14. Literacy-Rich Environments

15. Child Interests

16. Everyday Literacy Activities

17. Learning Opportunities

18. Responsive Teaching

19. Other Resources for Traininghttp://www.earlyliteracylearning.org/ta_pract_main.php • Presentations • Videos • Tools • Practice Guides (especially those for parents) • CELLcasts

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

21. Wrap-Up • Questions & Answers • Upcoming webinars • Archived CELL webinars • http://earlyliteracylearning.org/dl_webinars.php

22. 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.