Engaging with Bilingual and Refugee Families
25 April 2023 | 10.00am-1.00pm | Online

Join us to explore barriers preventing bilingual families from engaging with family learning. Experts Learning Unlimited will share strategies, activities and resources that promote a differentiated learning environment to respond to diverse needs and different language and literacy levels.  

The workshop provides attendees with:

• consolidate knowledge about the many advantages of bilingualism
• explore barriers bilingual families face in the community and how these impact their attitudes to their bilingualism and their children's education
• identify a range of strategies to enable bilingual parents to support their children's language development (in home language/s and English) and their education
• look at identifying the specific needs of refugees 

Feedback from previous attendees 

A fascinating course covering all aspects of working with refugees and asylum seekers, giving some excellent tip and resources.

Really informative training and feeling much more confidence in supporting families through my practice.

Everyone working with bilingual and refugee families should attend a course of this kind.

This course gave me an understanding of the issues facing refugees, asylum seekers and migrants. It will allow me to be more responsive to overcoming difficulties.

Who will benefit from attending?

• family hubs
• adult and community learning settings
• family learning settings
• schools
• libraries
• galleries
• museums
• early years settings

Workshop Facilitators

This online workshop will be delivered by Learning Unlimited who will draw on their significant expertise in working with bilingual families, as well as the collective experience of Family Skills, a national family literacy programme, which worked with hundreds of migrant families from diverse backgrounds and with wide-ranging language and literacy needs.

Location

Online (Zoom)

Cost