Promoting Parent-Child Interactions with Talk with Me Toolkits | Cultivating Learning

Join Carol Clymer, Beth McLean, and Esther Prins from the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn State to explore the Smithsonian’s Talk with Me Toolkits (TMTs). TMTs are organized around a theme and are intended to provide caregivers with ideas and questions to start conversations and interact with their children. You’ll leave with toolkits of activities that encourage thinking, vocabulary, and language development in young children. This session will be helpful for librarians, family literacy instructors, teachers, and parents who might use the TMTs at home, school, libraries, community programs, and other settings. Session Collection in the Learning Lab: Promoting Parent-Child Interactions with Talk with Me Toolkits: https://learninglab.si.edu/collection.... 00:00 Introduction 04:43 Opening Question: How can you promote parent-child interactions? 07:40 Introduction to the Goodling Institute for Research and the "Enriching Library Family Programming Using the Smithsonian Institution's Talk with Me Toolkits" project 10:47 Talk with Me Toolkits: Objectives and Format 13:50 Talk with Me Toolkits: Content Areas 14:55 Diving into a Toolkit: Art: Light and Shadow 16:00 Art: Light and Shadow Activity #1 21:27 Art: Light and Shadow Video 27:51 Art: Light and Shadow Activity #2 31:17 Art: Light and Shadow: Additional Activities 36:27 Summing Up 39:26 Q&A 50:44 Conclusion This interactive webinar, originally recorded on Zoom, is part of “Cultivating Learning,” a professional development webinar series focusing on techniques to use digital museum resources for learning. Check out “Cultivating Learning” and other Smithsonian Learning Lab webinars: https://learninglab.si.edu/about/events Thumbnail Image YouTube thumbnail for an upcoming webinar that reads “Cultivating Learning: Promoting Parent-Child Interactions with Talk with Me Toolkits, overlaid on an image depicting parents and children reading together. Courtesy of the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn State.