The Social and Emotional Language program is designed to provide you with a foundation for understanding children's emotions, emotional regulation, and social competencies. The workshop covers resources, tools, modelling behaviour, and various strategies that can help you effectively promote and support social and emotional learning. The program includes 1 Big Book for your service, as well as a toolkit containing 3 finger puppets and 3 picture books (including Little Book Press titles) to enhance your learning and implementation. These resources are seamlessly integrated into the workshop delivery, equipping you with tools to incorporate into your planning and curriculum, while also offering valuable assets to share with families after the session. For more information on the program, visit: https://raisingliteracy.org.au/professional-learning/

Expected outcomes for this program are:

• gain a deeper understanding of the neuroscience behind social and emotional development
• discover key aspects of social and emotional development, and gain practical tips to guide executive functioning, self-regulation, resilience, and social competencies
• gain practical strategies to use and maintain your connections with children as well as use language and literacy to support the development of social and emotional skills.

This program is delivered as a 2.5-hour online workshop which includes a resource toolkit, a certificate of attendance, a copy of the slide deck, and a 12-month membership to the online learning group forum. The platform fosters collaboration and shared learning, encouraging educators to deepen their literacy practices and continuously refine their approaches.

The program is delivered for $363.64 per person. A group online workshop is also available for a flat fee of $6,363.64. The group workshop must have between 10 and 20 people. For in-person workshops please contact Raising Literacy Australia for a quote and more information.