English in Early Childhood: How Happy Children Learn

Learn how to create an enabling environment to nurture children’s wellbeing.

This two-week course will explore why happy children learn better and the practical things you can do to encourage this. You’ll learn how to provide the best conditions for learning and how to give the right amount of support.

The course has been produced by the British Council, providers of high-quality English language courses in over 100 countries.

Creating enabling environments and positive relationships

You’ll explore ways to build positive relationships with young children, and their families and how this can help with their language development.

You’ll also understand how to create the right environment to encourage learning and development.

Learn how to nurture a child’s wellbeing

Once you have understood what an enabling environment is, you’ll understand how this leads to a better learning experience.

You’ll explore how watching and observing children helps us to get to know them, and what they need in order to help them with their development, as well as how to build trust to support them through their learning experience.

Observe children’s progress

Learn what to expect from young children learning English as an additional language, and how to measure progress in a meaningful way.

Understand how observation of children helps gain an understanding of what the next steps in each child’s learning and development might be, and how to help move learning forward.

This course is for parents of young children, English teachers of young children and early years practitioners who want to understand and assist young children in learning English as an additional language. It will suit you if you have an interest in early childhood development.