Building Blocks (High River 2017)

Pat Halewich (Retired)

Location: Literacy for Life Foundation, High River, AB

Region(s): South

Building Blocks Facilitator Training

Registration for this training is now closed.

Trainers: Dadye Teschl & Judy Goyette-Marsh, Literacy for Life Foundation

Participants in the Building Blocks Facilitators Training will receive basic training to become an In-Home Literacy Builder. Many of these strategies can be transferred to other types of literacy programming or used by other early years programs. Participants will improve their understanding, knowledge and skills of:

• Family Literacy
• The nine essential skills and how to integrate those skills into every day literacy activities with a primary focus on the adult/parent
• Early language and literacy development
• How people learn (learning styles, brain architecture, adult learning principles)
• Barriers to learning
• Integration of skills and knowledge within the home
• Parenting
• Strategies that promote literacy and learning in everyday activities to create a positive learning environment within the family.

Builders will be involved in “hands-on” experiences through games, in-home visitations scenarios and other literacy activities that will help them facilitate the parents'/adults' learning. These skills will allow Builders to expand or adapt the program to better serve adults with children ages 0-6 in their own communities.

Dates: November 21 & 22, 2017

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm (both days)

Deadline to register: Wednesday, November 8, 2017.  (A Minimum of 8 participants is required to run this training.)

Registration Fee (inlcudes training materials, lunch and snacks):

CALP-funded organizations, First Nations College or CCI Staff: $100.00

Other agencies: $200.00

For more information, please contact:

Emily Robinson Leclair
CLN Regional Support Staff, South Region
south@calp.ca
403-801-7278

Cancellation and Refund Guideline/Procedure:

If you are unable to attend a training event, you must notify Community Learning Network via email of all cancellations prior to the first day of the training. Non-attendance does not constitute notice of withdrawal.

• Notice of Cancellation that is given 10 or more business days before the training event will ensure your registration fee is eligible for a refund, less a $25.00 administrative fee.

• If Notice of Cancellation is given fewer than 10 business days before the first day of the training event, the registration fee is nonrefundable.

Refunds will be applied to the original form of payment (i.e. the credit account used to pay for the registration).