Apprentissage
préscolaire Canada
Connaissez-vous un groupe de parents qui pourrait
bénéficier d'Apprentissage préscolaire Canada?
Êtes-vous intéressée à recevoir la
formation d'Apprentissage préscolaire Canada afin de donner
des ateliers dans votre communauté?
Apprentissage préscolaire
Canada est un programme de huit modules mis sur pied afin d'aider
les parents à comprendre les modes d'apprentissage de leurs
enfants et à découvrir des façons de les
aider à apprendre.
Les personnes œuvrant auprès des
enfants et des familles (c.-à-d. les orthophonistes, les
audiologistes) participeront à des ateliers de formation
d'animateur afin qu'elles puissent présenter, dans leur
communauté, des ateliers sur ce programme.
Nous offrirons un atelier de formation d'animateur
dans neuf endroits au Canada de janvier à mars 2000. Dans
le but de mettre sur pied la liste des endroits où se donnera
la formation, nous désirons, dans un premier temps, connaître
les personnes intéressées à recevoir la formation.
Tout au long de ce projet, les animateurs d'ateliers
:
- recevront une formation intensive (sans
frais) d'une fin de semaine entre janvier et mars 2000;
- s'associeront avec une autre personne afin
de mettre sur pied et de présenter dans leur communauté
huit ateliers (sans frais) entre avril 2000 et janvier 2001.
- recevront les ressources d'Apprentissage
préscolaire Canada pour eux-mêmes et pour les participants
à leurs ateliers.
- recevront un montant forfaitaire de 500 $
pour couvrir les frais.
Si vous êtes
intéressés à recevoir la formation d'animateur
d'ateliers d'Apprentissage préscolaire Canada, veuillez
communiquer avec Xania Gordon à la FCSGE.
- Tél. (613) 729-5289 ou 1 800
858-1412, poste 24
- Téléc. (613) 729-3159
Apprentissage
préscolaire Canada est parrainé par cing
organisations :
Fédération canadienne des services de garde
à l'enfance
Association canadienne de programmes de ressources pour
la famille
Association canadienne des orthophonistes et audiologistes
Association canadienne des troubles d'apprentisage
Learning and Reading Partners, Adult Learning System
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Apprentissage préscolaire
Canada est un programme d’apprentissage conçu pour
les parents et autres adultes qui œuvrent auprès de
jeunes enfants, de la naissance à l’âge de
six ans, et de leurs familles. L’ACOA est heureuse d’annoncer
sa participation à cette merveilleuse initiative nationale
d’alphabétisation. Si cela vous intéresse,
vous êtes invités à en lire le description
sommaire suivant (en anglais seulement):
EARLY LEARNING CANADA - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Early Learning Canada is a family literacy
program designed for parents and other adults who work with young
children from birth to age six and their families. Developed in
the knowledge that the definition of "family literacy"
is far broader than teaching reading and writing skills to families,
Early Learning Canada facilitates lifelong learning. It recognizes
the power of early intervention, the importance of strengthening
families and communities, and the necessity of an engaged community
in all parts of Canada for implementation, support, and sustainability.
Early Learning Canada is based on the understanding
that learning requires four interactive processes: thinking, attitude,
language, and knowledge. It recognizes that parents and other
adults who work with young children and families need to understand
the essential learning processes and incorporate them into their
daily activities. It acknowledges that learning process approach,
encouraging children to transfer knowledge from one situation
to another and to make connections that facilitate learning.
Five non-profit organizations will partner to
develop and implement the project: The Canadian Child Care Federation,
the Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs, the Canadian
Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists,
the Learning Disabilities Association of Canada, and Learning
and Reading Partners, Adult Learning Systems. These organizations
represent 25,000 individuals working at the grassroots level in
their communities as child care providers, family resource program
staff, special education teachers, public health workers, speech-language
pathologists, audiologists, nursery school teachers, community
centre staff, playgroup supervisors, teachers' aides, and parent
volunteers.
The Early Learning Canada project will produce
flexible, community-based resources to enable community volunteers
to enhance early learning through workshops for parents and those
who work with young children and their families. A 170-page learning
guide containing 80 practical strategies has already been drafted
(HRDC funding); two training guides will be developed (one for
workshop leaders and one for workshop leader trainers) as well
as supporting course materials. All resources will be pilot-tested
and revised within the scope of the project. Learning and Reading
Partners, Adult Learning Systems will develop the resources; the
other partners (plus any other identified by possible funders)
will review the materials and provide training sites and participants
for the program.
Early Learning Canada uses a train-the-trainer
model based on community development principles to enable self-sustaining
grassroots delivery of the program. People who have heard about
the project are already self-identifying as willing participants
for the training.
The five partnering organizations are confident
that the time is right to mobilize their infrastructures to help
children to the best start for lifelong literacy. Early Learning
Canada is helpful for all parents and adults who work with children
and families, but will be particularly beneficial for families
where children are at risk of not developing sufficient literacy
and learning skills to be equal participants in Canadian society
as adults. It will have significant benefits for parents with
low literacy skills.
At the end of the 30-month project, over 200
individuals will have been trained to deliver the program in their
communities. The program will have been delivered in 75 communities
nation-wide to more than 1,000 parents and adults who work with
young children and families.
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