Preschool

 

PRESCHOOL WORKSHOPS

GARDENING WITH YOUNG CHILDREN: INSIDE AND OUT

  • Learn how to create an environment that facilitates children’s love of plants, gardens and the outdoors
  • Explore special features in a Children’s Garden’s
  • Discover how to develop exciting activities and experiences in gardening to support children’s learning in all areas

 

PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

  • Examine the line that defines professional behavior
  • Explore the NAEYC Code of Ethics and how it can help guide our strategies
  • Discuss some common situations that arise between administrators and teachers, teachers and teachers, teachers and parents, and even with children

 

CREATING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: RE-INVENT YOUR BLOCK AREA

  • Learn why blocks are an essential item in every early childhood environment
  • Identify elements of a well-designed and well-equipped block area
  • Discover activities that build children’s understandings of the world through block play

 

ROUTINES AND RITUALS AS CURRICULUM

  • See how your everyday routines and rituals can support each child’s emotional and social well-being
  • Discover how to embed learning experiences into activities that are done at the same time in the same way every day
  • Learn routines and rituals that increase learning time, decrease disruptions, and improve classroom management

 

SWITCHING GEARS: HELPING CHILDREN MANAGE DAILY TRANSITIONS

  • Learn how to help children deal with minute-to-minute transitions during the course of the day
  • Gain a better understanding of children’s perspectives and needs
  • Develop plans for transitioning that take into consideration individual differences and programmatic constraints

 

UNDERSTANDING TEMPERAMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO BEHAVIOR

  • Learn the definition and characteristics that make up an individual’s temperament
  • Understand how a child’s temperament influences his/her behavior, and how the child can be positively influenced by the environment
  • Examine your own “temperamental constitution” and how it affects your responses and to and interactions with children
  • Discuss specific difficult child behaviors within the framework of temperament and learn helpful strategies for dealing with children exhibiting certain temperamental characteristics

 

USING THE GUIDELINES FOR PRESCHOOL LEARNING EXPERIENCES

 

CREATIVE PLAY AND YOUR CHILD

 

PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE MEETINGS

 

INTENTIONAL TEACHING

 

CREATIVE MOVEMENT

 

REINVENTING CIRCLE TIME

 

ART: PROCESS VS. PRODUCT