Course: Educator's Resources, Tile: 2: Listening to children’s voices

2: Listening to children’s voices

2: Listening to children’s voices
- Why should we listen to children's voices?
- A framework for listening to children's voices
- How do we listen to children's voices using the creative arts?
- How to listen to children through interests and chats
- Educator resources
- Empowering children through the creative arts: Is it possible to access the voice of 2-5 year olds?
  
  Please scroll down to pages 2-3.
- Defence Teaching Activities in Children's Resources
  To accompany this module, please use the following resources from Children's Resources:
  1. Individualised books where children can tell the story of what happens in their family when their parents work away. These are in the modules for the following books: D is for Deployment, T is for Training, Waiting for Daddy, Now that I am big, and Mary's Alphabet Slippery Dip.
  2. Use the puppets from these eBooks to act out some of the events in the individualised books with the children, labelling the emotions and pointing out coping strategies.
  Activities for all families
  1. The 10 Reasons Why activity book. Children can either draw pictures relating to their parents in this book, or you can work with the parents to share family photos.
  2. Counting with my parent(s) activity book. Children can either draw pictures relating to their parents in this book, or you can work with the parents to share family photos.
- Resources for parents and educators
  There is some good research-based information in these online articles. There will also be many tips that are relevant for educators.
- Non-verbal communication (2-8 years)
  
  Positive nonverbal communication is good for relationships with children and child development. You can use nonverbal communication to guide children’s behaviour.
- Dress-up games (3-6 years)
  
  Dress-up games let your child play different roles, explore ideas and develop imagination.
- Puppet play: How it helps child development (2-8 years)
  
  In this video an expert explains how puppet play helps children’s emotional and social development.
- Puppet play and emotions (3-6 years)
  
  Puppet play is a fun way for children to learn about strong feelings.
- Making simple puppets (Birth - 8 years)
  
  Find out how to make simple puppets in this video.
- Imagining, creating and play (toddlers)
  
  Play ideas to develop toddler imagination include reading, drawing, dress-ups, nature walks, treasure boxes, messy play and more.
- Imagining, creating and play (preschoolers)
  
  Play ideas to stimulate preschooler imagination include reading, nature walks, busy boxes, dress-ups, puppet play and more.
- Imagining, creating and play (5-8 years)
  
  Play ideas for school-age imaginative development include reading, word games, pretend play, music play, arts and craft, nature walks and more.
- Active listening with Pre-Teens (8-12 years) and Teens (13-19) years
  
  Active listening is a skill that you can use to improve your communication with your child. It’s more than just hearing your child – it’s tuning in to your child’s thoughts and feelings.
- Listening to and negotiating with Pre-Teens (8-12 years) and Teens (13-19) years
  
  When you negotiate well with pre-teens and teenagers, it helps them learn how to think through what they want and need and communicate their wants and needs in a reasonable way.
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