School Age

SCHOOL AGE WORKSHOPS

BUILDING AND SUPPORTING POSITIVE RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERATIONS WITH CHILDREN

  • Learn how to establish trusting relationships and create a caring Environment
  • Understand how to honor and respect diversity
  • Discover how to use relationships as a foundation for appropriate behavior guidance and support

BUILDING POSITIVE PARTNERSHIPS WITH PARENTS

  • Identify the elements in developing trusting, productive relationships with parents
  • Learn strategies to enhance your communication skills
  • Gain confidence in your ability to communicate effectively with parents

COMMUNICATING EFFECTIVELY: IS ANYONE LISTENING?

  • Learn about and practice the skills used in listening with intention
  • Reflect on how we listen to each other and how to assure the other person that she or he has been heard and understood.
  • Explore how to listen for content, meaning and connection, as well across cultural communication

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

HELPING SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN DEVELOP EMPATHY

  • Gain a better understanding of how school-age children develop empathy
  • Learn how empathy helps children succeed both socially and academically
  • Identify potential roadblocks that impact the development of empathy
  • Explore strategies to incorporate empathy throughout your program

OBSERVING AND RECORDING CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOR

  • Understand the importance of observations and documentation
  • Identify a variety of tools and techniques and share strategies for fitting observing and recording time into your busy day
  • Learn how to use these tools to assess and improve programs
  • Discuss how to integrate your documented observations into progress reports and how to share these effectively with parents

CHILDREN AND NATURE: TAKING YOUR CURRICULUM OUTDOORS

  • Explore the variety of learning experiences that exist outside the walls of your program
  • Discover easy activities to inspire children and yourself
  • Learn how to incorporate the outdoors into indoor activities for further investigation

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

TRANSFORM YOUR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM INTO AN ADVENTURE CAMP

  • Determine the difference in expectations from “academic situations” to “summer programs”
  • Understand children’s developmental needs and how to address them
  • Learn strategies to assess your expectations of transitions and to invite input from the children

UNDERSTANDING AND DEALING WITH CHALLENGING TEMPERAMENTS AND BEHAVIORS IN SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN

  • Examine a broad framework for comprehensively and compassionately understanding children
  • Explore how children’s individual temperaments and learning styles affect their behavior
  • Learn and share approaches and specific strategies to help you deal with challenging behaviors in your program

3D ART

 

ART: PROCESS VS. PRODUCT

 

LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS

 

HELPING CHILDREN DEVELOP KIND AND RESPECTFUL BEHAVIOR

  • Using Positive Methods to Guide Children’s Behavior
  • Providing an Environment to Encourage Children’s Discipline
  • Using Words to Provide Positive Guidance
  • Setting Rules and Limits

 

FROM SURVIVING TO THRIVING….WHAT NEXT?